Dear RSF:

Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday, February 26 for Visiting Scholar Onoso Imoagene’s presentation “Lucky Migrants? West African Diversity Visa Migrants and the Downstream Effects of US Immigration Policy.”

Imoagene received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, a M.Phil. in Modern Society and Global Transformations from Cambridge University, and a BS in Sociology from the University of Ibadan, Nairobi.  She  is Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi.  Her book, Beyond Expectations: Second Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain, was published by the University of California Press in 2017.  Imoagene is working on a monograph which studies the experiences and outcomes of Nigerian and Ghanaian immigrants who migrated to the US via the Diversity Visa Lottery Program. Drawing from interviews and ethnographic research, she is exploring how the diversity visa program and other immigration policies affect not just migrants, but their families and communities in their countries of origin. She is examining the strategies winners employ to incorporate into the United States, how they conceptualize their racial identities, and studying the remittances they both send to and receive from family members in their countries of origin.