ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION IS FOCUS OF FREE PUBLIC TALKS AT (Newark, N.J., March 16, 2009) -- Scholars from Boston University and Princeton will address issues related to ÃâThe Economic Impact of The International Migration of LaborÃâ as part of a colloquium series at Rutgers University, Newark, this spring. Prof. Mariana Spatareanu organizes the colloquium. All of the talks are free and open to the public, and will be held in the fourth-floor The Division of Global Affairs sponsors the immigration colloquium. Here is information on the talks: March 30, 2009, ÃâMigration and Development,Ãâ by Robert E. B. Lucas, professor of economics, Time: 4-5:30pm LucasÃâ research has included work on internal and international migration, employment and human resources, income distribution and inter-generational inequality, international trade and industry, the environment, and sharecropping. He has served as chief technical adviser to the Malaysia Human Resource Development Program, and director of undergraduate studies and the Master of Arts program in economics at April 6, 2009, ÃâAmerica's Immigration Crisis: A Way Forward,Ãâ by Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Time: 5-6:30pm MasseyÃâs most recent book is New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration (Russell Sage Foundation 2008). He also has published extensively on Mexican immigration, including the books Return to Aztlan (University of California Press, 1987) and Miracles on the Border (University of Arizona Press, 1995, co-authored with Jorge Durand, with whom he also wrote Crossing the Border (Russell Sage Press, 2004) and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (Russell Sage Press 2002), which offers a critical analysis of U.S. immigration policy toward Mexico during a period of widespread economic integration under NAFTA. For more information, please contact Professor Mariana Spatareanu, economics and global affairs, 973/353 5249, or email: marianas@andromeda.rutgers.edu