Cecilia
Menjívar Cecelia
Menjívar is Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. In August 2009, she delivered the Distinguished Alpha Kappa Delta Lecture at the American Sociological Association Meetings in San Francisco, August 8th, 2009. She has written many articles and books including the award-winning Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (University of California Press).
Her research focuses on U.S.-bound migration. She has been studying the effects of legal, social and economic exclusion on different spheres of social life among immigrants, such as social networks, family, gender relations, religious participation, and transnational ties, focusing primarily on Central American immigrants in the United States. Also, she has been examining the militarization of the U.S. border and its effects for the immigrants who cross it (or perish in attempts to do so). "Citizenship, Immigration, and Exclusion: Latino Immigrants and the Contemporary Immigration Regime"
3:30p.m. Friday, February 26th, Buntrock Commons, Black and Gold Ballroom
Kristi Andersen Kristi Andersen is Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. She has served as department chair and held the Maxwell Professorship of Teaching Excellence. She has written many books and articles including The Creation of a Democratic Majority and the award winning After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal (University of Chicago Press).
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Related to this conference, she has received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study immigration in American cities. She looks at whether and how institutions (local governments, parties, civic organizations) are making efforts to incorporate new immigrant groups into civic and political life. Her work focuses on immigration in both contemporary and earlier eras in the United States.
"Incorporating Immigrants into American Civic and Political Life"
9:00a.m. Saturday, February 27th, Buntrock Commons, Black and Gold Ballroom
Giselle Stern Hernández - "The Deportee's Wife" “In this solo show, Giselle Stern Hernández's marriage is laid out on the front lines of the North American immigration debate… In THE DEPORTEE'S WIFE, Giselle takes the audience through her journey to face hard truths about how race, class, white U.S. privilege and gender intersect within the structures of a badly broken immigration system. Through her words and images, Giselle reveals a complicated love story.”
"The Deportee's Wife"
7:30p.m. Friday, February 26th, Buntrock Commons, The Lion's Pause
