Calling all current international graduate and professional students and international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Ash Kopetzky, a fourth-year graduate student in City and Regional Planning, will explore vacancy as a social and spatial condition in Seattle’s Chinatown–International District and Pioneer Square. The project seeks to understand how speculation, displacement, and uneven development shape neighborhood change, while also attending to how residents, small business owners, and communities sustain…

Hanna Lin, a fifth-year graduate student in Government, will theorize Chinese hukou (household registration) system as a central mechanism through which the Chinese state produces racialized differentiation within the ostensibly homogeneous Han majority. By binding social welfare and benefits to place of registration, hukou transforms rural Han migrant workers into a population simultaneously…