Two-day conference on immigration, featuring emerging scholars and well-established commentators. Sponsored by CSIM and CLIP.

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)

4^th Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference

Center for the Study of International Migration

Center for Law and Immigration Policy

UCLA

October 6-7, 2023

Preliminary Program

Friday, October 6:

Workshop Session 1: 9:30-11:30: Moore Hall 3340

Matthew Boaz (Washington and Lee University): The Future History of ICE

Amy Kimpel (University of Alabama): Operation Lone Star

Tania Valdez (George Washington University): Ending the Mental Health Crisis-to-Deportation Pipeline

Commentator: Ahilan Arulanantham (Law, UCLA)

Chair: Jason DeLeon (Anthropology and Chicano/a and Central American Studies, UCLA)

Workshop Session 2: 9:30-11:30: Moore Hall 3320

Lilian Frost (Virginia Tech): “Intentional Ambiguity: Purposeful Discrepancies between Law and Implementation in Jordan”

Ashley Muchow (University of Illinois, Chicago): “Does Media Coverage Influence Local Involvement in Immigration Enforcement?”

Stephanie Zonszein (UC Berkeley): “Ethnic Radio and Immigrants’ Political Engagement”

Commentator: Margaret Peters (Political Science, UCLA)

Chair: Marjorie Orellana (Education and International Institute, UCLA)

Lunch: 11:30- 12:45

Plenary session: 1-3 PM: Book manuscript workshop: Moore Hall 3340

Author:  Hiroshi Motomura (Law; UCLA): “Borders, People, Belonging: What Can Make Immigration Policy Ethical?”

Discussants: Cecilia Menjivar (Sociology, UCLA); Daniel Thym (Law, University of Konstanz, Germany). 

Break: 3-3:30 PM

Workshop session 3: 3:30-5:30 PM: Moore Hall 3340

Agustina Laurito (University of Illinois, Chicago): “The Effect of Home Country Disasters on US Labor Market Outcomes”

Nydia Johana Navarette Suarez (Colegio de Mexico): “Migration and Ethno-racial identity: interpartnering of Latin American migrants in Mexico”

Jason Schachner (University of Southern California), “The Nativity Achievement Gap and Immigrants’ School Choice Disadvantage: Evidence from Los Angeles County”

Commentator: Andres Villareal (Sociology, UCLA)

Chair: Victor Agadjanian (Sociology, UCLA)

Workshop session 4: 3:30-5:30 PM: Moore Hall 3320

Karen Okigbo (University of Massachusetts, Boston), “Ethnoracial Marital Preferences of Second-Generations Nigerian-Americans”

Isabel Gil Everaert (Colegio de Mexcio): “Waiting in Juarez: The Gendered Dimensions of Waiting for Asylum”

Francisco Lara Garcia (Princeton): “The Impact of the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship on College Attainment among Mexican Immigrants”

Commentator: Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez (Education, UCLA)

Chair: Cesar Ayala (Sociology, UCLA)

Saturday, October 7

Workshop session 5: 9:30-11:30 AM: Moore Hall 3340

Bertha Bermudez Tapia (New Mexico State): “The Cycle of Violence: From Matamoros to Reynosa””

Austin Kocher (Syracuse): “The Carceral Geographies of Mass Immigrant Surveillance”

Aaron Malone (Colorado School of Mines): “The Evolution of Mexico’s Transnational Migration-and-Development Model”

Commentator: Ruben Hernandez-Leon (Sociology, UCLA)

Chair: Min Zhou (Sociology and Asian American Studies, UCLA)

Workshop session 6: 9:30-11:30 AM: Moore Hall 3320

Briana Nichols (Rutgers): “Indigenous Youth and Future Making in the Wake of Forced Migration”

Katherine Jensen (Wisconsin): “Racial Inequality through Legal Inclusion”

Helena Zeweri (University of British Columbia): “Afghan American Diasporic Politics in the Aftermath of Withdrawal”

Commentator: Roger Waldinger (Sociology, UCLA)

Chair: Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez (Education, UCLA)

Lunch: 11:30 AM-12:45 PM

Plenary session: 1-3 PM – “From Dissertation to Book: Insights from First Time Book Authors”: Moore Hall 3340

Chiara Galli (Comparative Human Development, Chicago), author of Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (https://www.gallichiara.com/research)

Sylvia Zamora (Sociology, Loyola Marymount), author of Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33702

Download file: Emerging-Immigration-Scholars-24-ekn.pdf

Sponsor(s): Center for Study of International Migration