The Immigration Working Group of the City University of New York Graduate Center presents
New Directions in Immigration: Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives
A Graduate Student Conference
Date: Friday, March 28, 2014
Time: 11 am to 5 pm (Lunch provided; Reception to Follow)
Location: City University of New York, Graduate Center  365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of Fifth Ave and 34th St) New York, NY 10016

Room: Concourse 198

11:00 am – 11:15 am                                     Registration

11:15 am – 12:45 pm                                     Session I
Panel 1: Blurring or Redrawing Boundaries?: Race and Ethnicity in the Context of Migration

Brenda Gambol, CUNY Graduate Center – “Blurred or Bright Boundaries? Filipino Americans in Interethnic and Interracial Marriages”

Bernadette Ludwig, CUNY Graduate Center – “Staten Island’s “Iron Ladies.” Gendered Adaptation of Liberian Refugees”

Susie Tanenbaum, CUNY Graduate Center – “Queens Iftar: A Muslim Community Transforming the Public Sphere”

Nazreen Bacchus, Queens College, CUNY – “Managing Assimilation and Multi-Ethnic Gendered Identities: The Case of Second-Generation Indo-Guyanese New Yorkers”

Panel 2: Integration through Education?: Transnational Experiences in Educational Settings

Gowoon Jung, SUNY Albany – “Blurred Citizenship: The Experience of Transnational Korean Students”
Joanna Yip, CUNY Graduate Center – “The Fujianese Immigrant Bargain: An Alternative Narrative of the Model Minority”

Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, The New School – “A Space for Integration: Islamic Religious Instruction in                  German Public Schools”
12:45pm-1:45pm                                        Lunch

1:45pm-3:15pm                                           Session II

Panel 3: Citizenship, Law and Governance: How Policy Shapes and is Shaped by the Lives of Migrants

Abigail Kolker, CUNY Graduate Center – “Migrant Worker Vulnerability and Mobilization in Israel: The Role of Local and National Governance”

Stephen Ruszczyk, CUNY Graduate Center – “Dual Marginalization: Governance of Work, Family and Housing of Young Undocumented Mexicans in New York”

Geoffrey Levin, New York University – “The American Struggle for Soviet Jewish Immigration: The Post-Passage Debate over the Jackson-Vanick Amendment, 1976-1989”

Daniel Schneider, CUNY Graduate Center – “Immigration Reform, Enforcement, and a Local Response to Secure Communities”, Co-written by Marlene Ramos, CUNY Graduate Center

Panel 4: Work and the Labor Market: Migrant Incorporation in the Workplace and Their Impact on the Host Economy

Hyein Lee, CUNY Graduate Center – “Ethnic Minorities: Playing the Institutional Game”

Elizabeth Miller, CUNY Graduate Center – “Home is Where the Work is?: Creating a Sense of Home and  Family on the Job”

Jonas Wiedner, CUNY Graduate Center/Humboldt University in Berlin – “Immigrants’ integration in a  changing economy:  Exploring the divergent trends in social status and unemployment of native-born and  immigrant workers in Germany 1980-2010”
Rita Nassar, University of Illinois – “Immigrants as a material threat: a time-series analysis”

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm                             Session III
Panel 5: Transnationalism and Migration: Forging Identities in a Globalized World

Rachel Bogan, CUNY Graduate Center – “Am I Chinese, American, Both, or Neither? The Complexity of Claiming a Transnationally and Transracially Adopted Child’s Identity”

Douglas de Toledo Piza, The New School – “Chinese sellers: a story of globalization as told by an informal market in downtown São Paulo”

Leslie Martino, CUNY Graduate Center – “From ‘La Montaña’ to Manhattan: Mixtecos in the New York City Mexican Mix”

Daniela Pila, SUNY Albany – “‘I’m not good enough for anyone’: Legal Status and the Dating Lives Of Undocumented Young Adults”
5:00pm                                                Reception