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Spotlight on Immigration Conference, March 7, 2008

The Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop, the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, the Health and (Im)migration Graduate Student Workshop, and the Colloquium on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration are pleased to host a one-day conference, the 2008 Spotlight on Immigration Conference.

Keynote Speaker: Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College

Friday March 7, 2008
8:30am-4:30pm
Maude Fife Room
315 Wheeler Hall

This conference is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact:
Shannon Gleeson sgleeson@berkeley.edu
Els deGraauw degraauw@berkeley.edu
IreneBloemraad bloemr@berkeley.edu

Conference Agenda:

8:30am Continental breakfast
9:00-9:15am Welcoming remarks, Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor of Sociology & faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop
9:15-10:45am Claims-making, Trust, and Identity: State-Migrant Relations
Shannon Gleeson (UCB Soc/Demog) - “From Rights to Claims: The Role of Civil Society in Making Rights Real for Undocumented Workers”
Rahsaan Maxwell (UCB PolSci) - “Political Trust among British Muslims: Assimilation Not Required”
Cinzia Solari (UCB Soc) - “Between 'Europe' and 'Africa': Ukrainian Migrant Women Build the 'New Ukraine'”
11:00-12:00pm Keynote Speaker: Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College - “Tales from the Field: Reflections on the Challenges of Multi-sited Ethnography”
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:30pm Migrants’ Economic Mobility Part I
Edward Flores (USC Soc) - “'I Am Somebody': Victory Outreach, Masculinity and Upward Mobility in Low-Income Latino Neighborhoods”
Renee Reichl and Roger Waldinger (UCLA Soc) - “A Path to Convergence?: Labor market outcomes of Mexican origin workers”
Maria G. Rendon (Harvard Soc/Social Policy) - “Transitioning out of School and Into Young Adulthood: The Role of Neighborhoods on the Educational and Work Outcomes of Mexican-origin Youth”
2:45-3:45pm Migrants’ Economic Mobility Part II
Catherine N. Barry (UCB Demog/Soc) - “Being All They Can Be: U.S. Military Experience and the Earnings of Young Adult Immigrants”
Sang Lee (UCB ESPM) - “Weak Networks and Structures: Modes of Migration Integration into Agricultural Work”
3:45-4:15pm Legislative Update
David Rosenfeld (Labor Attorney Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld and BoaltSchool of Law)
Co-Counsel AFL-CIO et al v. Chertoff et al


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Friday April 20, 2007: Understanding the Immigration Protests of Spring 2006: Lessons Learned, Future Trajectories

The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Department of Sociology are pleased to host a one-day conference on Friday April 20, 2007 8:30am-5:30pm at the IRLE (formerly IIR), 2521 Channing Way.

This conference is free and open to the public.

Conference Agenda:

8:30-9am Continental breakfast
9-9:15amWelcoming remarks by Kim Voss, Chair of Sociology and Michael Reich, Director of IRLE
9:15-9:45amSetting the Agenda: “Out of the Shadows, Into the Light: Questions Raised by the Spring of 2006”Roberto Suro, Pew Hispanic Center
10-11:45amPanel 1: Overview and Assessment: What Happened in Spring 2006?
Jonathan Fox (UC Santa Cruz) - “Mapping Mexican Migrant Civil Society”
Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley) - “All in the Family: Dual Mobilization in the East Bay”
Nilda Flores-Gonzales and Amalia Pallares (University of Illinois, Chicago) - “Emerging Voices: New Actors in the Chicago Protests”
Lisa Martinez (University of Denver) - “The Politics of Immigration in a Bellwether State: Evidence from Denver”
Discussant: Kim Voss (UC Berkeley)
12-1:15pmLunch
1:30-3pmPanel 2: Looking Back: Immigrant and Latino Mobilization in the Past
Maria Echaveste (UC Berkeley) - “Putting the Spring Protests in Historic Context”
Ruth Milkman (UC Los Angeles) - “L.A.’s Past, America’s Future? The 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests and their Antecedents”
Gary Segura (University of Washington, with Shaun Bowler & Francisco Pedraza) - “The Efficacy and Trust of Juan Q. Public: How the Immigration Marches Reflect Surprising Support for American Institutions of Governance”
Discussant: Robert Mickey (University of Michigan, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar)
3:15-4:45pmPanel 3: Looking Forward: The Future and Meaning of the Protests
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley) - “What the May 1st Marchers Meant: Immigration Reform Should Not Be About Crime”
Louis DiSipio (UC Irvine) - “Drawing New Lines in the Sand: An Early Assessment of the Medium-and Long-Term Consequences of the 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests”
Taeku Lee (UC Berkeley), S.Karthick Ramakrishnan (UC Riverside), and Ricardo Ramirez (USC) - “From Pickets to Polls? Bridging Political Behavior and Social Movements Perspectives on the Immigration Protests”
Discussant: Rachel Moran (UC Berkeley, Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change)
5-5:30pmWrap-up

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Friday March 2, 2007: Spotlight on Immigration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Newcomers and Their Children

The Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop and the Institute of Industrial Relations were pleased to host a one-day conference on Friday March 2, 2007 9am-3pm, at the UC Berkeley Women’s Faculty Club.

This conference was free and open to the public.

Conference Agenda:

9am Continental breakfast
9:15amWelcoming remarks by Michael Reich, Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations & Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor of Sociology & faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop
9:30-11amPanel I: Economic Determinants and Consequences of Immigration
Discussant: Steve Raphael, Professor of Public Policy
Fangfang Yao (Social Welfare) - Measuring China’s Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Employment through the Four Building Blocks Approach
Christel Kesler (Sociology) - Varieties of Inequality: Allocation, Distribution, and the Wage Disadvantages of Immigrant Workers
Juan Carlos Suárez & Zénide Avellaneda (Economics) - Juanita's Money Order: Income Effects on Human Capital Investment in Mexico
11:15amKeynote Speech: “Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic Inequalities in North America and Western Europe”
Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University at Albany, SUNY
12:15-1:15pmLunch
1:30-3pmPanel II: Immigrant Identity and Politics
Discussant: Rachel Moran, Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law & Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change
Keith Hiatt (JSP) - Immigrant Danger? Immigration and Increased Crime in Europe
Ming Chen (JSP) - “A Nation of Immigrants” or a “New Civil Rights Movement?”
Naomi Hsu (Sociology) - Chinese, Taiwanese, and Everything In Between: Towards a Better Understanding of Ethnic Self-Identification among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants from Taiwan

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For further information, please contact:

Shannon Gleeson - sgleeson@berkeley.edu

Els de Graauw - degraauw@berkeley.edu

Irene Bloemraad - bloemr@berkeley.edu




Immigration Workshop - Berkeley, CA 94720