The Second Biennial Population and Public Policy Conference will take place Feb. 8-9, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Click here for flyer.)

Speakers will include Dr. Douglas Massey, author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times; and Timothy P. Olson, the U.S. Census Bureau’s associate director for field operations. Dr. Massey’s talk is titled “Doubling Down on a Bad Bet: Immigration Policy Before and After Trump.”

A number of abstracts have already been submitted, and you are encouraged to submit yours. We invite abstracts on panels, papers and posters.

Some potential subjects for the conference are:

• Business Demography
• Children and Youth
• Data Visualization 
• Development, Environment and Sustainability
• Disaster, Demography and Management
• Disparities in Health and Aging
• Domestic Migration
• Education
• Fertility
• Health Care and Public Health
• Historical Demography
• Housing
• International Migration
• Mortality
• Population Change
• Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
• Redistricting
• School Demography
• Spatial Analysis
• Urbanization and Globalization

Abstracts and early registrations are due on October 31. You can learn more about the conference, including how to submit an abstract, at https://gps.unm.edu/conference/.

Students have the opportunity to earn $500, with the Jasso Student Paper Award.

We hope to see you in February.