Is there any way to better inform the many immigrants who rely on fast food for so many of their meals of the risk and of the importance of moderation before it is too late? I know that in NYC fast food chains must display the calorie count alongside the food, but is there any way to nationalize that? Also, would cutting the portion size help, such as when Mayor Bloomberg limited the selling of sodas over 16 oz?
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
Do you think New York City did away with the gardens too quickly? Manhattan lacks a “green” environment outside of Central Park? What are the benefits of these gardens, and should they be brought back?
In “But is it Authentic,” the author describes food as an art, and that the contributions of the dish and of the experience-er are both important. Every person will have a different experience based on how familiar they are with the food or with the ingredients. Regarding art, such as paintings, or maybe even poetry, my understanding is that although the artist might mean one thing when creating his art, the work of art itself can mean many things, as long as that meaning can be supported with sufficient evidence. Someone with one set of experiences can interpret the exact same words of a poem just as well but differently as someone with different experiences. With that being said, do you think food is more like art or less like art? The cook might intend to install certain flavors in a dish, target specific taste buds and activate specific sensations, maybe even remind the eater of another food. But, what the taster experiences is largely based on what kinds of foods he has eaten before and how much of them. Even the wording of the food or ingredients or the atmosphere changes the experience. For example, someone from India will probably think something Americans think is spicy as a lot less so. So once again, considering this, is food more or less like art?
