Connecticut College | Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference

Friday, October 16

8 a.m. Continental Breakfast
1962 Room East

8:45 a.m. Welcome
Armando Bengochea, Dean of the College Community, Connecticut College
1962 Room East

9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions

Cro 1: Ice Raids and the Aftermath

Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota, and Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
Immigrant Enforcement and Its Effects on Latino Lives in Two Rural North Carolina Communities

Doris Marie Provine and Roxanne Doty, Arizona State University
Institutionalizing Racialized Violence: A Study of Recent Trends in the Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws

Elizabeth Vaquera and Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida
Criminalizing Borderlands: Determinants of Immigrants’ Experiences with Immigration Officials

M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College; Kalina Brabeck, Rhode Island College; and Rachel Hershberg, Boston College
An Exploration of the Effects of Deportation on Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families

Moderator: Jeffrey Cole, Connecticut College

Cro 2: Representations in Fiction, Testimony, Theater and Print Media

Rodney Benson, New York University
Framing the Immigration Debate in the U.S. National Media, 1974-2006

Anne C. Gebelein, Trinity College
Testimonio from the Border: Mexican-American Collaborations Rewrite the Genre

Shanna Lorenz, Occidental College
Staging Migration: Embodying Oral Histories of Border Crossings

Nereida Segura-Rico, The College of New Rochelle
Dying for a Dream: Marginalization and Violence in Recent Dominican-American Fiction

Moderator: Paola Sica, Connecticut College

Cro 3: Positioning Families: Undocumented Migration, Status and Inequality Among Transnational Mexicans

Deborah A. Boehm, University of Nevada, Reno
Gendered Crossings: Migration and the Production of “Illegality” in Transnational Mexican Lives

Joanna Dreby, Kent State University
Migrant Time versus Child Time: Time Dislocations in Mexican Transnational Families

Gail Mummert, El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico
Trapped Children: Mixed Status Households and Childrearing Arrangements among Transnational Mexican Families

Brian Rich, Transylvania University
Next-of-Kin Relations and Emotional Trials in Mexican-U.S. Migration

Moderator: Leo R. Chávez, University of California, Irvine

Cro 4: Migrant Journeys and Family Separation

Fenix Arias and Fabiola Fernandez Salek, City University of New York
Left Behind: Children of Dominican Deportees in a Bulimic Society

Anita Khashu, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Central American Unaccompanied Children in Transit through Mexico

Jana Sladkova, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Journeys of Honduran Undocumented Migrants to the United States

Michael Sullivan, Princeton University
Using International Human Rights Standards to Safeguard the Unity of U.S. Mixed-Status Families

Moderator: Samuel Martinez, University of Connecticut

Cro 5: Undocumented Labor

Daniel Melero Malpica, Sonoma State University
Ganándose la Vida en las Esquinas: An Ethnographic Study of Day Laborers

Julian Jefferies, Boston College
Undocumented Youth’s Negotiation and Access to Labor

Caitlin C. Patler, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Boss Tells Me to Take It or Leave”: Hierarchy, Mobility and Claims-Making Among Undocumented Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles’ Low-Wage Labor Markets

Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Place on the Corner: Sanctioned Bodies and Day Labor

Moderator: Shannon Gleeson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions

Cro 1: Serving Immigrant Families and Children in the Connecticut Child Welfare System

William Rivera, Director, Division of Multicultural Affairs
Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Yadira Duran, Social Work Supervisor
Bureau of Continuous Quality Improvement
Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Joan E. Twiggs, Program Director, Office for Research and Evaluation,
Bureau of Continuous Quality Improvement
Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Moderator: Joan E. Twiggs, Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Cro 2: Living La Undocumented Life: Settlement Decisions Across the Life Course

Patricia Ruiz-Navarro, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Permanent Settlement Decisions of Undocumented Migrant Mothers

Stephen Ruszczyk, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Life Possibilities of an Undocumented Adolescent

David Caicedo, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Undocumented Day Laborers and Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion in Maintown, New Jersey

Moderator: Robert C. Smith, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Cro 3: Immigrant and Latino Health

Jessica Mulligan, Connecticut College
Documenting Immigrant and Latino Health Disparities through Community-Campus Collaboration

Maria Amalia Pesantes, University of Pittsburgh
Beyond Language Barriers: Healthcare Access for Mixed-Status Families in Pittsburgh

Angela Robertson, University of California, San Diego
Deportee Voices: HIV Risk Behaviors in Pre- and Post-Deportation Contexts

Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Toward a Dynamic Conceptualization of Social Ties and Context: Implications for Understanding Immigrant and Latino Health

Moderator: Catherine Benoit, Connecticut College

Cro 4: Institutions and the Incorporation of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States

Els de Graauw, Harvard University
Documenting the Undocumented: Nonprofit Organizations and Intergovernmental Tensions over Municipal I.D. Cards in San Francisco

Helen B. Marrow, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies

Shannon Gleeson, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Emergence of a Transnational Bureaucracy? The Case of the Mexican Consulate and Labor Standards Enforcement in California and Texas

Moderator: Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University

Cro 5: Teaching Cultural Literacy at a Time of Fences

José B. González, United States Coast Guard Academy

LCDR Mike Turner, United States Coast Guard Academy

Alex Waid, United States Coast Guard Academy

Moderator: José B. González, United States Coast Guard Academy

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12:45 p.m. Lunch on Your Own
1962 Room West

2:00-3 p.m. Plenary Lecture
1962 Room East

Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Who is the “Immigrant” Today? Reassembling a Subject

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3:15-4:45 p.m. Plenary Lectures
1962 Room East

Peter Andreas
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Director of International Relations Program, Brown University
The Transformation of U.S. Border Policing

Leo R. Chávez
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
The Latino Threat and Media Constructions of Nation

Judith Adler Hellman
Professor of Political and Social Science, York University, Toronto
To Stay or Return Home? New Factors Shaping the Decisions of Undocumented Mexican Migrants

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5-6:30 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions

Cro 1: The Journey and Care of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Alexia Rodriguez, Chief Programs Officer/Legal Counsel, Southwest Key Programs

Estela Sánchez, Program Director, Southwest Key’s Houston Unaccompanied Minors Shelter

Adriana Saenz, Program Director, Southwest Key’s El Paso Unaccompanied Minors Shelter

Ernie Tapia, Program Director, Southwest Key’s El Paso Unaccompanied Minors Shelter

Moderator: Ismael Avilez, Program Director, Southwest Key’s El Cajon Unaccompanied Minors Shelter

Cro 2: Coming to the United States: Immigrants Relate their Experiences

(In English & Spanish)

Maria Arcari, Ecuador

Nelson Donastorg, Dominican Republic

Amaro Pulido, Mexico

Sandra Tapia-Arcos, Ecuador

Moderator: María Amparo Cruz-Saco, Connecticut College

Cro 3: Borders of Ethnicity and Nationality

Abigail Fisher Williamson, Harvard University
The Select Few: Immigrant Intermediaries and Immigrant Political Incorporation

Patricia Escamilla-Hamm, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Role of Mexican-Origin Groups in U.S. Policies to Fortify the U.S.-Mexico Border

Samuel G. Prieto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin@s in Immigration Enforcement: Negotiating Work and Identity at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Moderator: Robert Gay, Connecticut College

Cro 4: Practicing Immigration Law

Michael Boyle, Attorney, Law Offices of Michael Boyle
Observations on Work and Interaction with U.S. Immigration among Brazilians and Ecuadorians in Connecticut and Massachusetts

Douglas R. Penn, Attorney, Barr & LaCava
Living Outside the Box: Undocumented in a Documented World

Rita Provatas, Attorney, Provatas & McNamara
Navigating the Minefields: Case Studies in Entering and Staying in the United States

Moderator: Yolanda Vazquez, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Cro 5: Elvira Arellano, the Sanctuary Movement and Immigration Politics: Chicago as a Site of Political Struggle in the Midwest

Maura I. Toro-Morn, Illinois State University
The Gendered Dimensions of Undocumented Mexican Migration: The Case of Elvira Arellano

Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois, Chicago
Impossible Activism? Representations of the Family in the Immigrant Rights Movement in Chicago

Nilda Flores-Gonzalez and Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, University of Illinois, Chicago
A Flor in Every Community: The Making of an Immigrant Activist

Moderator: Maura I. Toro-Morn, Illinois State University

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