CUNY Grad Student Conference on Immigration 10-14-11 : Bernadette Ludwig on Little Liberia

Bernadette Ludwig of CUNY Grad presenting her research on " 'Little Liberia' : A Place Of Refuge In Staten Island" at a panel on Refugees and Asylum Seekers with Dr. Holly Reed of Queens College, CUNY as a discussant; at:

(New) Debates on Belonging: A Graduate Student Conference on Contemporary Issues in Immigration

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center's Immigration Working Group (IWG)

All information, including agenda, panels, and abstracts, is available at http://www.gc-immigration.org/gcimmigrationconference

Conference Overview:

With increasing frequency, questions of belonging have dominated the news and public debates on immigration: from the recent introduction of anti-immigrant legislation in many states to the spirited organizing around the DREAM Act and the controversy sparked by Park51's proposal for a Muslim community center near Ground Zero. The prominence of such issues highlights both the fiercely contested nature of belonging in the United States, as well as how diverse groups - whether veteran or newly arrived, documented or undocumented, majority or minority, religious or secular - mobilize and advocate for their claims. While Congress debates and defers decisions on immigration reform on the national level, the question of belonging has distinctly regional and local manifestations. Immigrants and their children are claiming their place in American society, in its schools, workplaces and neighborhoods.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together graduate students whose own research bear on these issues. (New) Debates on Belonging explores the many facets of immigrant belonging, incorporation and boundary drawing.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Place/region (communities, new destinations, urban areas)
Policy/activism/public health
Cross-national and historical comparisons
Culture and the arts
Citizenship
Dimensions of difference: gender, race, sexuality, religion, the body
Social institutions: labor and the economy, education, family, the media
Transnationalism
The second generation

Cosponsors:

CUNY Immigration Studies Initiative; CUNY Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Center; CUNY Sociology Dept.; CUNY Sociological Students' Association; CUNY Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

For more information on the Immigration Working Group, you can look here:

http://www.gc-immigration.org/home

The facebook event is archived here:

http://www.facebook.com/events/273446626012184/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bernadette Ludwig
• Holly Reed
• CUNY
• CUNY Graduate Center
• New York
• Manhattan
• Queens
• Liberia
• Liberians
• immigration
• immigrants
• Staten Island
• Little Liberia
• Park Hill