Aspen Ideas “Immigration, Demography, and the 2024 US Election”
Aspen Institute España will hold next October 8th a new Aspen Ideas debate session with Justin Gest, Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government on
“Immigration, Demography, and the 2024 US Election”. The session will be moderated by José M. de Areilza, Secretary General of Aspen Institute España.
Long a technical, administrative matter, immigration is now the central fulcrum of politics in the transatlantic space. In this seminar, we harness new findings about human mobility and demographic change to better understand the dynamics of the upcoming US election and the future of populism, nationalism, and nativism more broadly.
Justin Gest
He is a Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He studies immigration and the politics of demographic change. He is the author of six books: Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2010); The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford University Press 2016); The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press 2018); Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change (Cambridge University Press 2018); a textbook, Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media (Oxford University Press 2020); and Majority Minority (Oxford University Press 2022). He also co-edits the Oxford University Press book series, “Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship.” He has authored peer-reviewed articles in journals including Comparative Political Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the International Migration Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has provided reporting or commentary for ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, NPR, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Vox, and The Washington Post. In 2014 and 2020, Professor Gest received Harvard University’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, respectively each university’s highest award for faculty teaching. In 2013, he received the 2013 Star Family Prize for Student Advising, Harvard’s highest award for student advising. In 2007, he co-founded the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Aspen Ideas Program
The Aspen Ideas Program aims to provide a forum for debate on current issues for emerging leaders from different sectors of society, many of whom have already participated in Aspen Spain programs. On the occasion of the publication of books or in the light of current affairs, we bring together groups of 30 people in debates with experts on geopolitics, new technologies, leadership, energy, or international economics. This Program includes several session formats: Aspen Espresso, breakfast debates held between 9 am and 11 am, Aspen Ideas@Lunch, lunch debates held between 2 pm and 4 pm, Aspen Ideas Online, debates held in digital format, and Aspen Ideas Alumni, dinner debates held from 8.30 pm to 10.30 pm for Alumni who have participated in Aspen Seminars.
