Professor Nancy Foner Delivers Inaugural Jean Monnet Distinguished Lecture at University at Buffalo
Nancy Foner, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a pre-eminent scholar in the field of comparative immigration studies, recently delivered the inaugural Jean Monnet Distinguished Lecture at the University at Buffalo http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/campus.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-reporter-articles/stories/2016/04/foner-immigration-talk.detail.html#sthash.NAMUHjCG.dpuf . During the lecture, “Fear, Anxiety and Immigration: Barriers and Belonging in the United States and Western Europe,” Foner discussed why tensions about immigrant populations and their incorporation have taken different forms on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Foner is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on immigration, including her most recent, co-authored with Richard Alba, “Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe."