Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop

Workshop Layout 

During every workshop, we will discuss two papers, each no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length. These papers can range from research proposals to articles in preparation for publication. One discussant/respondent will be in charge of providing detailed comments for each paper, and all workshop members can provide additional feedback. Papers are sent out one week before the workshop meets to allow all participants ample time to read the work-in-progress thoroughly. This fall we will meet in person almost every other Monday from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. The specific dates for Fall 2021 semester are TBD. Email Nadia Almasalkhi at nadiaalmasalkhi@berkeley.edu to be added to the workshop listserv.

Workshop Requirements

Units and Requirements: You can attend the workshop without officially enrolling, but graduate students are encouraged to register for this 1 unit P/NP class through the Sociology department. Enrollment helps justify the budget and course to the department. In order to pass, you are required to either:

• come to most sessions, OR

• present a work in progress, OR

• act as a discussant for one of the papers.

The course number is TBD.

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Workshop Lineups in Past Semesters

Spring 2021 Schedule

January 25: 
Boroka Bo - “Tell me who's your neighbor and I will tell you how much time you've got: the spatial-temporal consequences of residential segregation”

February 8:
Katherine Kunz - "How does the program, Projekt DA-SEIN, create a home for asylum-seekers who have arrived in Basel, Switzerland?"
Irene Bloemraad & Cybelle Fox - Professionalization session on writing, publishing, and networking/marketing your work

February 22:
Nadia Almasalkhi - "Non-Participation in the Syrian Diaspora for Arab Spring (Intro, Lit Review, Background + Methods)"

March 8:
Isabel Garcia-Valdivia - "'¿Por qué se asustan? (Why are they scared?)': The Effects of Immigration Enforcement in Late Adulthood"
Ethan Roubenoff - "Quantifying Access to Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits"

March 29:
Johanna Schenner - "H-2A workers in California agriculture"
Stephanie Peng - "The Role of Partisanship in Immigration Judges' Decision Making."

April 12:
Daimeon Shanks - “Rationalizing Regulation: Irregular Immigration Policymaking in the Shadow of Dysfunction.”
Irene Bloemraad - "Immigrant Organizations and protests in the 1950s to 1990s"

April 26:
Melanie Plascenia - "Aging on the Hudson: A Pan-Latinx Migration History"
Mitzia Martinez - "From Illegalized to Legalized: A Study on Immigrants that Undergo Legalization"

Fall 2020 Schedule

September 14:                                                                                                                                                            
Adriana Ramirez - “La Promesa Nacional:” Young Return Migrants Negotiating Membership in Oaxaca, Mexico                                                                                          
Discussants: Luis Tenorio                               

September 28:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Luis Tenorio - "How Legal Organizations Shape Incorporation of Central American Unaccompanied Minors"                                                                            
Andy Chang - Introduction to Dissertation 

October 12:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Nallely Mejia - "Mexican Immigrant Couples and Food Negotiations Through Life Events"
Andrea Gonzalez -"Can We Use the Mexican Labor Force Survey to understand the characteristics of Mexican migrants?"

October 26:                                                                         
Alein Haro- "How Experiences and Perceptions of Immigration Policies Shape Mental Health Among Day Laborers in the East Bay"                                               
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla - "The Returned: Repatriations, Elections, and Policy Polarization in El Salvador"                                                                                          

November 9:                                                                     
Katherine Kunz - "An Ethnographic Study of Asylum-Seeking and Home in Basel, Switzerland "
Willow- "Transitude: Trans* Perspectives on Immigration Detention" 

November 23:                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Johanna Schenner- "Experiences of (unlawful) Employment Conditions by Undocumented and Guest Workers in the California Strawberry Industry"                     
Nadia Almasalkhi - "Transnational Political Engagement in the U.S.-based Syrian Diaspora."

Spring 2020 Schedule

April 29:
Alein Haro - Immigrant Health and Policy
Katherine Kunz - How Refugees Understand Home (empirical chapter from the dissertation)

Fall 2019 Schedule

September 9:
Angela S. Garcia - Enduring Immigrant "Illegality": Time, Waiting, and the State in Cross-Border Perspective
Discussant: Isabel Garcia

September 23:

Mao Mei Liu - Enduring Family Migration Networks Across the Life Course: The Case of Senegal
Discussant: Paco Martin del Capo

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez -  "Los Hijos Son La Riqueza Del Pobre:" Domestic and International Child Migration, Mexican Agricultural Child Labor, and the Legal Right to Education, 1940-1960.
Discussant: Stephen A. Rosenbaum

October 7:
Rocio Rosales - Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Transforming Ethnic Communities in Los Angeles
Discussant: Nallely Mejia

Alicia Sheares - Attitudes on Undocumented Immigrants
Discussant: Luis Tenorio

October 21:
Luis Tenorio - Law and Society Piece on Unaccompanied Minors and Detention
Discussant: Pauline White Meeusen

Kevin Lee - Employer-Sponsored Insurance Among Immigrant Workers
Discussant: Mao-Mei Liu

November 4:
Nadia Almasalkhi - Research Plan
Discussant: Katherine Kunz

Katherine Kunz - Church-Based Refugee Programs and Swiss Integration Policy
Discussant: Nadia Almasalkhi

November 18:
Willow and Maddy Kane - Resilience Narratives: Mutual Support Groups and Healing Post-Release from ICE Detention
Discussant: Kevin Lee

Nallely Mejia - 
Discussant: Alicia Sheares

December 2:
Pauline White Meeusen - Social media
Discussant: Maddy Kane

Isabel Garcia - The Effects of Legal Status on Older Mexican Migrants in the U.S. and Mexico
Discussant: Nallely Mejia