Two-day conference on immigration, featuring emerging scholars and well-established commentators. Sponsored by CSIM and CLIP.
Friday, October 6, 2023
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)



4th 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