Connecticut College | Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference

Saturday, October 17

8 a.m. Continental Breakfast
1962 Room East

8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions

Cro 1: New Bedford

Yolanda Vazquez, University of Pennsylvania Law School
An Overview of the 2007 ICE Raid in New Bedford

Scott W. Lang, Mayor of New Bedford
A Local Perspective on a National Issue

Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Gissell Abreu, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Immigration, Ethnicity and Marginalization: The Maya K’iche of New Bedford

Moderator: David Stoll, Middlebury College

Cro 2: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Activist Response (1)

Carina A. Bandhauer, Western Connecticut State University
Inside the Anti-Immigrant Movement: Facts, Fiction and Fury

Hortencia Jimenez, University of Texas, Austin
Anti-Immigration Legislation and the Emergence of Immigrant Rights Coalitions

Chris Zepeda-Millán, Cornell University
Border-Brokers, Meshworks and Migrant Mass Mobilization in El Nuevo South

Philip Berns, Attorney
Myths, Lies and Urban Legends about Immigrants and Immigration

Moderator: Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College

Cro 3: Immigrant Youth

Laura E. Enriquez, University of California, Los Angeles
Take the I-5 North: A Case Study of Undocumented California Students and Their Journey to Become Licensed Drivers

Sam Fitzgerald, University of California, Berkeley
What Goes Around Keeps on Going: Children and the Construction of Migration Experiences

Alexis Silver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aging into Exclusion: Transitions to Adulthood for Undocumented Immigrant Youth

Lisa Patel Stevens, Boston College
Undocumented Youth: Perspectives on Education, Gender and the American Dream

Moderator: Ron Flores, Connecticut College

Cro 4: Immigrant Rights in Transition

Lina Newton, Hunter College, City University of New York
Immigration Regulation and Reform: A State-Level View of the Future?

Christine Thurlow Brenner, Rutgers University
Bureaucratic Incorporation and Institutional Effects on Immigrant Integration: State Policy Decision-Making and Undocumented Latino Immigrants in New Jersey

Alexandra Filindra, Brown University
State Approaches to Immigration Policy: Data from the 50 States

Anahí Viladrich, Hunter College, City University of New York
From Entitlement to Undeservedness: The Legacy of Welfare Reform

Discussant: Héctor Cordero-Guzmán, Ford Foundation

Cro 5: Trans-Border Policy and Borderlands Identity

Alexandra Délano, The New School
Integrating Mexican Immigrants into the United States: The Role of the Sending State

Rodrigo Márquez, Consul for Community Affairs, Consulate of Mexico, St. Paul
A New Relationship with Migrants: The Mexican Government’s Response to Migration Circularity

Juan Jose Bustamante, The University of Texas Pan American
Undoing Citizenship: Issues on Passports, Midwives and Mexicans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Moderator: Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, University of Connecticut

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11 a.m.-Noon Plenary Lecture
1962 Room East

Linda Bosniak
Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law
Arguing For Amnesty

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Noon Lunch on Your Own
1962 Room West

1:15-2:30 p.m. Plenary Lectures
1962 Room East

Jorge Duany
Professor of Anthropology, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Racializing Undocumented Immigrants: Dominicans in Puerto Rico and Haitians in the Dominican Republic

Silvio Torres-Saillant
William P. Tolley Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University
Imperial Domains and the Limits of Legality

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2:45-4 p.m. Plenary Lectures
1962 Room East

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Family in Question: Legal Status and the Immigrant Family

Carola Suárez-Orozco
Professor of Applied Psychology and Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU, New York University
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Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education and Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU, New York University
Immigrant Vertigo: The Latino Family in a Time of Crises

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4:15-6 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions

Cro 1: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Activist Response (2)

David Amdur, Connecticut Program Coordinator, American Friends Service Committee
Tara Parrish, Lead Organizer, Hartford Areas Rally Together
Building Local Power and Expanding the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants in Connecticut

Enrique Morones, President/Founder, Border Angels, and Founder, Gente Unida
Border Angels, Border Realities and the Truth about Today’s Migrants

José L. Pérez, Associate General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Hate Crimes, the Media and Official Accountability: The Murder of Marcello Lucero

Aarti Kohli, Director of Immigration Policy & Legislative Counsel, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Activists and Academics: The Role of Research in the Immigration Debate

Moderator: Suzanne Oboler, John Jay College, City University of New York

Cro 2: Immigration Policy

Jill Harrison, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Immigration Policy “At Work” In and Beyond the Workplace: Accumulation, Legitimization, Complacency and Invisibility

Juan Pedroza, The Urban Institute
The Implementation of Oklahoma House Bill 1804 and Its Early Effects on Immigrant Families and Communities

Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University
A Conflict Analysis of Migration Enforcement

Philip Kretsedemas, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Hispanic Undocumented Migration and U.S. Labor Market Dynamics

Moderator: Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University

Cro 3: Illegality and Exclusion

Marcel Paret, University of California, Berkeley
From Legalized Exclusion to Illegalized Inclusion: State-Economy Relations and Immigrant Labor in Post-WWII California

Daniel I. Morales, University of Wisconsin Law School
In Democracy’s Shadow: Fences, Raids and the Production of Migrant Illegality

Roberto G. Gonzales, University of Washington
Learning to be Illegal: The Unauthorized 1.5 Generation and the Construction of Liminal Illegality

Maria Cook, Cornell University
“Humanitarian Aid Is Never A Crime”: Humanitarianism and Illegality in Migrant Advocacy

Moderator: Helen B. Marrow, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco

Cro 4: The U.S.-Mexico Border

Agustín Maciel-Padilla, Political Affairs, Mexican General Consulate, El Paso
Illegal Flows and Border Violence: The Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Border

Robin Reineke, University of Arizona
The Missing of the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Anthropology of Absence

Flavio Risech, Hampshire College
Holes in the Fence: Homeland Security, Race and Private Property

Gilberto Rosas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sovereign Pathologies and Delinquent Powers in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

Moderator: Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College

Cro 5: Mapping New Geographies of Detention, Deportation, Deterrence and Activism

Mathew Colemen, Ohio State University
Spaces of Insecurity: The Localization of Immigration Enforcement in the War on Terror

Nancy Hiemstra, Syracuse University
The Transnational Reverberations of Detention and Deportation: The View from Ecuador

Lauren Martin, University of Kentucky
Custody versus Care: Challenging the Detention of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States

Alison Mountz, Syracuse University
Mapping Remote Detention: Dis/location through Incarceration

Moderator: Alison Mountz, Syracuse University

6:30 p.m.
Buffet Dinner followed by Latin Dance Party
Live Music by Grupo Tentación
Crocker House, 180 State St., New London

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