Jeanne Batalova and Josh Kun will discuss immigration and the policies, politics, and cultural artifacts that result from the movement of people across borders.

Josh Kun is an L.A.-based writer, critic, and scholar whose work focuses on popular music, the US-Mexico border, and the cultures of globalization. He is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, where he also directs the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center.

Jeanne Batalova is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. Her areas of expertise include impacts of immigrants on society and labor markets; integration of immigrant children and elderly immigrants; and the policies and practices regulating immigration of highly skilled workers and foreign students.