Wisconsin Academy: Join us this Tuesday for an Academy Evenings discussion of immigration

Today’s global economic crisis has turned a media spotlight on immigration. Sagging labor markets have led to calls for even tougher restrictions on potential competition from immigrant workers, and ballooning fiscal deficits have heightened fears about the added burden to welfare states. But do these actions reflect the reality on the ground? Will immigration to the United States increase or decline over the next few years? What can history tell us?

In his Academy Evenings presentation, Why Third World Migrants Will Disappear from the United States by 2050, Harvard University emeritus professor of economics Jeffrey G. Williamson will share historical research and new projections on U.S. immigration, highlighting a shift that is more African and less Latin American twenty years from now, and what this shift means for American culture and commerce in the years beyond.

Williamson’s Academy Evenings presentation, which is part of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” series, will be held Tuesday, May 11, from 7:00–8:30 pm at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art lecture hall in Overture Center for the Arts, 221 State Street. The presentation is free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first served.

The “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” Academy Evenings series is sponsored by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin–Madison, M&I Bank, the Evjue Foundation, and Isthmus Publishing Company.

About Academy Evenings

Academy Evenings engage the public in a wide variety of topics of public interest and feature Wisconsin’s leading thinkers, scholars, and artists. These free forums are intended to encourage public interaction with these leaders in an intimate atmosphere designed to foster discussion and build community. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters sponsors Academy Evenings regularly in Overture Center for the Arts in Madison and at other venues across the state. For more information on Academy Evenings in your area, visit wisconsinacademy.org .