1. 7/23, DC - Discussion on global talent and H-1B visas
2. 7/23, DC - Discussion on employment and social reintegration for returning Afghan refugees - [New Listing]
3 7/24, DC - House hearing on issues related to the 2020 Census citizenship question - [New Listing]
4. 7/25, DC - House hearing on oversight of family separation and DBP short-term custody - [New Listing]
5. 7/26, DC - Discussion on policy solutions to the Central American refugee crisis - [New Listing]
6. 8/1, New York, NY - Book discussion: Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die - [New Listing]
7. 8/9-11, New York, NY - Immigration at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meeting
8. 8/10-13, New York, NY - Immigration at American Sociological Association annual meeting
9. 9/25, Princeton, NJ - Lecture and book discussion on Japan's restrictive immigration policy - [New Listing]
10. 10/8, DC - Annual immigration law and policy conference
11. 10/10-11, Zagreb, Croatia - Conference on diaspora and homeland
12. 10/17-18, Florence, Italy - Workshop on cities and the global governance of migration
13. 11/14, San Diego - Book panel: Migration Control
14. 11/20-22, DC - 2019 Homeland Security Week conference - [Updated with conference program]
1.
America’s Highly Skilled Workforce, the Talent Pipeline, and H-1B Visas
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/americas-highly-skilled-workforce-the-talent-pipeline-and-h-1b-visas
Description: Shortages of highly skilled professionals are one of the most significant challenges for industries across the United States. Many observers believe that government and industry-led training initiatives, access to high-skilled foreign nationals, and robust STEM education programs can and should be part of the solution.
Please join the Wilson Center’s Asia Program and NASSCOM, along with the Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation Program, for a discussion on current talent challenges and how best to address them. The event will launch new reports produced by IHS Markit on H-1B visas and the global IT services industry; include expert analysis of the issues that companies are experiencing with the visa program; and feature exploration of industry and government workforce and STEM education initiatives.
Speakers:
Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Indian Ambassador to the United States
Karen Campbell
Associate Director, Economics and Country Risk, IHS Markit
Stuart Anderson
Executive Director, National Foundation for American Policy
Jon Baselice
Executive Director for Immigration Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Spencer Abraham
Former U.S. Energy Secretary and Former U.S. Senator
Robin Fernkas
Acting Deputy Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Robin Wright
Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
Kapil Sharma
Vice President for Government and Public Affairs North America, Wipro
Debjani Ghosh
President, NASSCOM
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Employment and Reintegration for Returnees & At-Risk Populations in Afghanistan
9:00-10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2019
CSIS Headquarters, 2nd Floor
1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
https://www.csis.org/events/employment-and-reintegration-returnees-risk-populations-afghanistan-0
Description: A negotiated settlement may be the only solution to end the 18 years of war in Afghanistan. Though peace is possible, it feels like a distant hope. Afghans and others are cautiously talking about life after armed conflict, but a much-desired peace brings its own challenges. Chiefly among them is to address the livelihood needs of former fighters, some 2 million returned refugees, more than 2.5 million internally displaced persons, and many other vulnerable people.
The panel of distinguished experts will discuss challenges, options, and opportunities as Afghanistan attempts to address employment for these at-risk segments of the population. During the panel session, Dean Piedmont of Creative Associates will present a white paper on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of former fighters in the country.
Featuring:
H.E. Roya Rahmani
Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States
Dean Piedmont
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Expert, Creative Associates International
Earl Anthony Wayne
Former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Rohullah Osmani
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University SAIS & ADB North America
Yesim Oruc
Deputy Director, UNDP Washington Office
Nitin Madhav
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs
CSIS Experts:
Erol Yayboke
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development, Project on U.S. Leadership in Development
Earl Anthony Wayne
Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Project on Prosperity and Development
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Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the Damage and Preparing to Count ‘We the People’ in 2020
2:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 24, 2019
House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
2154 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/beyond-the-citizenship-question-repairing-the-damage-and-preparing-to-count-we
Witnesses:
TBA
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Oversight of Family Separation and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Short-Term Custody under the Trump Administration
10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 25, 2019
House Committee on the Judiciary
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings
Witnesses:
Brian S. Hastings
Chief, Law Enforcement Operations
U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Jonathan H. Hayes
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement
Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Commander Jonathan White
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Joseph B. Edlow
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice
Diana R. Shaw
Assistant Inspector General for Special Reviews and Evaluations
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General
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Policy Solutions to the Central American Migration Challenge
9:30-11:00 a.m., Friday, July 26, 2019
Bipartisan Policy Center
1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC xxxxxx
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/event/policy-solutions-to-the-central-american-migration-challenge/
Description: In recent years, the United States has seen a major shift in migrant flows as more families and children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border claiming asylum. This change—from the young, Mexican men previously arriving in the greatest numbers—has overwhelmed our ill-equipped border systems and facilities and presented challenges to both the Obama and Trump administrations as well as our Mexican neighbors. Join our panel of experts from diverse perspectives to discuss the complex migration challenges facing Central America, Mexico, and the United States and potential policy solutions.
Speakers:
Eleanor Acer
Senior Director of Refugee Protection, Human Rights First
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Director of Immigration and Cross-Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
Ashley Feasley
Director of Policy, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernandez
Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
Moderator:
Molly O’Toole
Immigration Reporter, Los Angeles Times
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The Passage, Implementation, and Legacy of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986:
A discussion with Charles Kamasaki on his new book, Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die
3:00-5:00 p.m., Thursday, August 1, 2019
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson
One New York Plaza
New York, NY 10004
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflHrKw5nxl7aN_VCeUWWfOusGq9vd4QBwfSfJERKzaaFr-Iw/viewform
Please join the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) for a timely and provocative conversation with Charles Kamasaki, Senior Cabinet Advisor for UnidosUS, who will discuss his groundbreaking new book, Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die. During this event, Mr. Kamasaki will discuss the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which led to the nation's last large-scale legalization program. How did IRCA come to pass? What are its lessons for the current immigration debate? What is its legacy for US immigration politics and for the migrant families and communities it benefited?
Author and Presenter:
Charles Kamasaki
Senior Cabinet Advisor, UnidosUS
Respondents:
Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn
Bitta Mostofi
Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York City
Moderator:
Donald Kerwin
Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
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The Society for the Study of Social Problems 69th Annual Meeting
Friday-Sunday, August 9-11, 2019
Roosevelt Hotel
45 E. 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/745/2019_Annual_Meeting/
Immigration-related sessions:
Friday, August 9, 2019
8:30–10:10 a.m.
Integration of Immigrants and Refugees into Local Communities in the New Immigration Era
Papers:
Civic Participation of Undocumented Immigrants in California
Kevin Beck and Karina Shklyan, University of California, San Diego
‘No Borders, No Nations’ Stopping Deportation? Municipal Strategies and Activism in an Age of Deportation
Amy C. Foerster, Pace University
‘The Greatest Pain’: The Structural Violence of Intergenerational Immigrant Family Separation
Florencia Rojo, University of California, San Francisco
Impact of Sanctuary Policies on Victimization and Discrimination among Latino Immigrants
Jacqueline E. Groccia, The George Washington University
Multiple Expulsions: An International Humanitarian Migration Crisis in Europe
Karin A. C. Johnson, University of California, Riverside
Race, Crimmigration, and Policing
‘Ask Him If You’re Being Detained’: Bystander Resistance in Street Police Encounters
Katherine D. Hilson, Carthage College
‘This Could Be You!’ Political Organizing and Resource Dependence in the Wake of Police Violence
Theresa Rocha Beardall, Cornell University
E-race the Database: Big Data Policing in Chicago
Andy Clarno and Michael De Anda Muñiz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Police-Native American Community Relations: Living in the Shadows of Rural America
Janice A. Iwama, American University and Jack F. McDevitt, Northeastern University
10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
Integration of Immigrants and Refugees into Local Communities in the New Immigration Era II
Papers:
As Civic Society Agents and Mediating Structures: How Nonprofits Advance Immigrant Political and Civic Integration
Tian Wang, University of Massachusetts Boston
Screening for the ‘Good Life’: Nurses’ Insights into the New Era of Refugee Health Care and Integration in Minneapolis, St. Paul
Christopher Levesque, University of Minnesota
States of Exception: The Biopolitics of (Non)Citizenship in the Contemporary United States
Meredith Van Natta, Duke University
The Political Participation of African Immigrants in the United States: A Theoretical Analysis of Nonprofits’ Involvement
Olanike Ojelabi, University of Massachusetts Boston, Winner of the Community Research and Development Division’s Student Paper Competition
Trends and Patterns in the Residential Segregation of Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States, 2000-2016
Sevsem Cicek-Okay, University of Cincinnati
2:30–4:10 p.m.
CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Politics of Migration and Reflections on the Ground
Papers:
‘Do I Have a Choice?’ Migration and Asylum Policies and Unfree Labor
Secil Ertorer, Canisius College
A 21st Century Border: Designing Deathly Traps for the Global Poor
Heidy Sarabia, California State University, Sacramento
Attitudes toward Refugees: The Case of Bolu, Turkey
Nahide Konak, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey
Economic Security, Immigrant Threat, and Preferences for Restrictionism
Noel Strapko and Lynn Hempel, Colorado State University
The Effects of Culture and Economic Prosperity on Mexicans’ Attitudes towards Central and South American Immigration
Antonio Paniagua Guzman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
4:30–6:10 p.m.
Race, Crimmigration and Policing II
Papers:
Defending the ‘Bad Immigrant:’ Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus
Sarah Rose Tosh, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Self-preservation amidst Rising Threats: Immigrant Internalization of Anti-immigrant Narratives and Its Effects on Community Solidarity
Carly Offidani-Bertrand, University of Chicago
Carceral Migration as Theory and Method: The Sociologies of Race, Space, and Legal Punishment
Susila Gurusami, University of Toronto and Rahim Kurwa, University of California, Los Angeles
Immigrant Youth: The Social Facets of Being (Un)American
Papers:
‘I Became a Mom Overnight’: How the Deportation of a Parent Affects Immigrant Young Adults’ Educational Experiences and Outcomes
Carolina Valdivia, Harvard University
California as the Promise Land: Local Context and Growing up Undocumented in North Carolina
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, University of Massachusetts Boston
Contextualizing Assimilation: Assimilation, Discrimination, and Depression of Children of Immigrants
Jienian Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
My Goals and Dreams Deserve the Right to be Heard: Applicants’ Expressions about the Value of DACA
Yvonne M. Luna and T. Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University
Second-generation Canadian Muslim Women and Their Work Experiences
Awish Aslam, University of Western Ontario
Saturday, August 10, 2019
10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
Complexities of Immigration
Papers:
Is the US Really a Melting Pot or More of a Vegetable Tray? Consciousness Matrix vs Power of Assimilation
Rafia Javaid Mallick, University of Oklahoma
South Asian Migration to the U.S. South: Alternate Pathways in the Pursuit of the American Dream
Praveena Lakshmanan, Michigan State University
The Myth of Swedish National Identity and the Symbolic Politics of the Refugee
Beiyi Hu, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Forcibly Removed: Homeland Detachments of International and Indigenous Refugees
Lory Janelle Dance, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Selma Hedlund, Boston University
Neither from Here nor There: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Impact of Discrimination on the Employment Prospects of Deported and Voluntary Return Migrants in Mexico.
Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sunday, August 11, 2019
8:30-10:10 a.m.
Race, Crimmigration and Policing III
Papers:
Crisis, Capital Accumulation, and ‘Carceral Keynesianism’ in the Aftermath of the Global Slump
Jessica Evans, Ryerson University
Legal Status Fluidity and Filipino Immigrants
Daniela Pila, University at Albany, SUNY
Rohingyas the ‘Racialized Other’: Creation of the Biopolitical State
Morsaline Mojid, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
The Colonial/Modern Gender System of Migration: Intersections of Race, Patriarchy, and Criminalization
Abigail Perez Aguilera and Leonardo Esteban Figueroa Helland, The New School and Debbie Samaniego, University of Sussex
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114th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Sunday-Tuesday, August 10-13, 2019
Sheraton New York Times Square
New York Hilton Midtown
New York, NY
https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2019
Immigration-related sessions:
Friday, August 9, 2019
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Migration Data and Models for a Better World: Perspectives from Academia, Data Science, and International Organizations
Migration plays a central role in population processes, becoming an increasingly important component of social, economic and political change across the globe. Given its often unjust causes and socially transformative consequences to origin and destination communities alike, migration continues to demand the scholarly attention of sociologists, especially those invested in overcoming social injustices. However, despite the growing importance of migration phenomena, migration data remain expensive and difficult to collect. Different institutions use different definitions to meet their various needs, and time after time difficulties comparing data across context limit wider understanding.
The goal of this preconference is to facilitate a conversation about improving migration data by bringing sociologists familiar with the conceptual pitfalls of migration research together with two groups: (1) data scientists with strategies for inferring migration from new forms of digital data and (2) representatives from international organizations (like the UN, located in New York City) with specific needs for particular kinds of migration estimates.
This interdisciplinary conversation will be organized around three substantive issues in migration data and measurement. First, there is a need for data than can improve the lives of migrants. Understanding the conditions migrants face is a key priority of the UN’s Global Compact on Migration. Second, there is a need to better understand the uses of migration data by government and the salience of migration data to the public. Preventing distorted views that may lead to unjust immigration restrictions or violence against migrants requires research into how data are interpreted and shared. Third, there is a need for comprehensive tools for comparing different kinds of migration data. Sociologists, in particular, can help international organization and data scientists decide how to prioritize the types of data that are most useful to understand societal processes and migration.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
8:30-10:10 a.m.
Deportation Threats and Realities in the United States
Local Immigration Enforcement and Latino Segregation
Matthew Hall, Cornell University; Jacob S. Rugh, Brigham Young University
“No such thing as sanctuary”: How Fear and Uncertainty are Transforming Immigrant Lives
Florencia Rojo, UCSF
The Effects of Deportation and the Threat of Deportation on Food Insecurity among Latino Immigrant Families
Sarah Bowen, North Carolina State University; Sinikka Elliott, University of British Columbia; Annie Hardison-Moody, North Carolina State University
“When it’s an emergency, we take that risk”: Biopolitical assemblages and U.S. immigrant health
Meredith Van Natta, Duke University
10:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Belonging among Refugees
Lives on Hold: The Costs of Waiting for Refugee Resettlement
Molly Fee, University of California-Los Angeles
A New Regime of Transnational Labor in the Meatpacking Industry: Haitian Refugees in North Carolina
Salvador Rangel, University of California at Santa Barbara
Forced Migrants and Secure Belonging: A Case Study of Syrian Refugees Resettled in the United States
Michelle Sara Dromgold-Sermen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
They tell me I am a (damn) refugee
Bernadette Ludwig, Wagner College
U.S-Refugee Integration Dynamics and Offspring Education: Looking Beyond Context of Reception
Ngoc-Thoa Khuu, University of California-Irvine; Frank D. Bean, University of California-Irvine
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Section on Latina/o Sociology Refereed Roundtables
Citizenship, Politics and Trust
Redefining engagement through exclusion: How undocumented Latinx immigrants define political participation
Nicolaus Espitia, University of Michigan
Educational Challenges and Success
Undocumented and Distracted: The Everyday Effects of Immigration Laws on the Academic Success of Undocumented College Students
Daniel Millán, University of California, Irvine
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Immigrant Inclusion and Exclusion during the Trump and Obama Eras
Abuses and Discrimination Against Mexican Immigrants: An Empirical Assessment of the Obama and Trump Administrations
David Scott FitzGerald, University of California-San Diego; Gustavo López, University of California-San Diego
Becoming A Citizen in the Age of Trump: Citizenship Motivations of Latinx Residents in Texas
Nancy PlankeyVidela, Texas A&M University; Mary Elizabeth Campbell, Texas A&M University; Diana Mercado, Texas A&M University; Alejandro Salas, Texas A&M University
Dynamic Modes of Incorporation Through Mobilization: Evidence from American Muslim Immigrant Communities
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
Local immigration policy and crime: A county-level investigation in the United States
Marta Ascherio, University of Texas at Austin
Section on Sociology of Population. Health and Mortality in Midlife
Migrant Integration and the Health Status of Current and Returned Mexico-U.S. Migrants
David P. Lindstrom, Brown University; Kathryn Klaas, El Colegio de Mexico
Immigrant Communities/Families
Determinants of Social Support in Racialized Immigrant Networks: The case of the Roma in France.
David Cañarte, University of Florida; Raffaele Vacca, University of Florida; Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, CEE
Effects of Police Stop-and-Frisk on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Youth
Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY; Linna Marten, Stanford; Nikolas Harder, Stanford
Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering
Isabel Garcia Valdivia, University of California Berkeley
Self-Preservation Amidst Rising Threats: Immigrant Internalization of Anti-Immigrant Narratives and its Effects on Community Solidarity
Carly Offidani-Bertrand
Transnational Queer Refugees: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-Border Ties in Canada
Ahmad (Aryan) Karimi
4:30-6:10 p.m.
Legal Entanglements in Immigration Enforcement
A study of migrant shelters, violence, and deportation on the Texas-Tamaulipas border.
Bertha Alicia Bermudez Tapia, University of Colorado, Boulder
Immigrant Detention as a Surveillance Hub: The Monitoring of Families In and Out of Detention
Luis Romero, Southwestern University
La Charla: Documenting the experience of unaccompanied minors in immigration court
Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame
Legal Consciousness Among Asylum-Seeking Immigrants in the US: From Expectations of Fairness to Increasing Legal Cynicism
Tania E. DoCarmo, University of California-Irvine; Rocio Rosales, University of California-Irvine
Care Work/Caring Labor
A Care Convergence? Quantifying Wage Disparities for Migrant Care Workers Across Three Welfare Regimes
Naomi Lightman, University of Calgary
Diverse understandings of family framings in paid household and care work
Anna Rosinska, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Intersectionality, Gendered Immigrant Care Economies, and New Forms of Servitude in Privatized Care
Jennifer Nazareno, Brown University; Cynthia J. Cranford, University of Toronto
Gender and Immigration
Gendered effects of a Toxic Environment: Legal Violence and the Health of Latina Immigrants
Andrea Gomez Cervantes, University of Kansas; Cecilia Menjivar, University of California-Los Angeles
“These Women Will Revolt:” Defining Gender Equality in the French Immigrant Integration Program
Elizabeth Onasch, SUNY Plattsburgh
Believing Asylum-Seeking Women: Constructing Credibility in Asylum Narratives of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Abigail Stepnitz, UC Berkeley
Sunday, August 11, 2019
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Migrant Youth Navigating (Il)Legality
Beyond Dreamers: The Under-analyzed Complexity of the Undocumented Youth Population
Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts Boston; Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY
DACA’s Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California
Erin R. Hamilton, University of California, Davis; Caitlin Patler, University of California, Davis; Robin Savinar, University of California, Davis
Inherently Violent: Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and the Immigration Adjustment Status Process
Kati Barahona-López, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moral career of migrant il/legality: Undocumented youths in NYC and Paris negotiating deportability and regularization
Stephen P. Ruszczyk, Montclair State University
The Integration Paradox: Immigrant Children Coping in the Age of Mass Deportations
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology Refereed Roundtables
Borderline Racism: Ethnoracial Domination in U.S. and Israel through the rhetorical production of “border security”
Fae Chubin, Bradley University; Manuel Ramirez, University of Connecticut
Mexico “shed American blood upon American soil!”: American Nationalism and the Mexican American War
Jon Williams, University of New Mexico
Migration and the Medieval Transition to Capitalist Production in Florence
Nestor P. Rodriguez, University of Texas at Austin
Unpacking the Suitable Enemy: Predictors of attitudes toward immigration and immigrants
Luis F. Nuño, California State University, Los Angeles
Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. White Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia
The Rise of Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Hate Online
Matthew Costello, Clemson University; James E. Hawdon, Virginia Tech University; Salvatore J. Restifo, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Health, Inequality, and the Affordable Care Act
Identifying the Undeserving Poor: The Effect of Racial, Ethnic, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment on State Medicaid Eligibility
Daniel Lanford, Georgia State Unviersity and Emory University; Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
8:30-10:10 a.m.
Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Refereed Roundtables
Race & Higher Education
It is Very Dominated by Latinos Here”: How Places Perpetuate Meanings of Racialized Illegality
Karina Santellano, University of Southern California
Interracial Relationships
Middle Eastern Immigrant Intermarriage and Boundaries of Race and Belonging in the United States
Elyas Bakhtiari, College of William and Mary; Deenesh Sohoni, College of William & Mary
Understanding Trends in Racial Identity
Accruing Whiteness: Power and Resistance in Prerequisite Cases of Immigrants from the Middle East
Hadi Khoshneviss, Kenyon College
Multi-Racial & Mixed Race Identity
The Mixed-Race Children of Immigrants: Intermarriage, Assimilation, and New Immigrant Trajectories in the United States
Alyssa Marie Newman, Harvey Mudd College
Race & Belonging
Contextual Whiteness: Spanish Immigrants’ Panethnic White Identity in the United States, Argentina, and the United Kingdom
Jose G. Soto-Marquez, New York University
Reception & Perceptions of Migrants
Racialization of Latinx Immigrants: The Role of (Seemingly) Positive Newspaper Discourse
Emily P. Estrada; Emily R. Cabaniss, Sam Houston State University
Re-evaluating inter-group dynamics in the South: Racial attitudes of Latino immigrants in Durham, NC
Angie Nathaly Ocampo, University of Pennsylvania; Chenoa Flippen, University of Pennsylvania
Migration, Race & Economics
Glass Ceiling and Earnings Disadvantages Against Immigrants and Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Scott Tuttle, University of Kansas; ChangHwan Kim, University of Kansas
Reinforcing Ties to Ethnicity: Second-Generation Entrepreneurs in an Ethnic Community
Janet Muñiz, University of California, Irvine
The Moderating Role of Elements of Assimilation in First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans’ Socioeconomic Attainment
Dylan Simburger, University of Houston
“Who needs and deserves it the most”: Effects of immigrant narratives on giving-behavior
Victoria Shantrell Asbury, Harvard University
Race & Economics
The immigrant health paradox and immigrant status: Differences in mortality of chronic conditions in California
Josefina Flores Morales, University of California-Los Angeles; Ka-yuet Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
Social Service Workers Navigating Race
The importance of discretion for welfare services to minorities: Examining workload and antiimmigration attitudes.
Carolin Schütze, Lund University; Hakan Johansson, Lund University
Issues of Race in the Criminal Justice System
Arresting (Non)Citizenship: The Policing Migration Nexus of Nationality, Race and Criminalization
Alpa Parmar, University of Oxford
Silencing Sexual Abuse and Assault: Immigration Detention Failure to Survivors
Beatriz Aldana Marquez, Texas State University
Criminalizing Race
Carceral Migration as Theory and Method: The Sociologies of Race, Space, and Legal Punishment
Susila Gurusami, University of Toronto; Rahim Kurwa, UIC
From Migration Pathways to Highly Securitized Schools: Wrap-around Carcerality and Racialization
Erin Michaels, University of North Carolina Wilmington
10:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Regular Session. Racialized Assimilation of Immigrants and their Children
Becoming Black and African-American: Race, Ethnicity and the Children of African Immigrants
Dialika Sall, Columbia University
Being "Black twice": Black and Migrant Identities among Haitian Diaspora in South Florida
Jamella Nefetari Gow, University of California Santa Barbara
Discriminatory Transformations: The Racialized Assimilation of Asian Immigrants to the U.S.
Ryan Gibson, Emory University
Does Skin Tone Matter? Immigrant Mobility in the U.S. Labor Market
JooHee Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Privatization of Prisons and Prison Labor
Death and the Use of Tools of Authority in Private U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers
John Major Eason, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Politics of Prison and Detention Bed Space
Patrisia Macias-Rojas, University of Illinois, Chicago
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Family Section Roundtables
Immigrant Families and Relationships Effects of Illegality on Immigrant Families: What the Relationships of Legal Status-Discordant Siblings Reveal
Heidemarie Castaneda, University of South Florida
Family Formation under the Law: An Overview of Contemporary Latino/a Immigrant Families in the United States
Vanessa Delgado, University of California, Irvine
Refugee mothers' struggles raising children in the United States
Hermeet Kaur Kohli, University of Southern Maine; Susan Fineran, University of Southern Maine
Dating Across Nativity Lines? Mate Selection Among Immigrant and Native-Born Online Daters in Vancouver
Yue Qian, University of British Columbia; Siqi Xiao, University of British Columbia
12:30-2:10 p.m.
Regular Session. Theories and Measures of Forced and Voluntary Return Migration
Precarious citizenship: How kinship-based gift economies shape mobilities of undocumented Mexican migrants
Christine Wheatley, NewAge Environmental Development of Africa
Rediscovering Home: Theorizing Return Migration Among 1.5-generation Returnees and Deportees in Mexico
Alexis Silver, Purchase College - SUNY
Return migration among older Mexican immigrants
Mara Getz Sheftel, The Graduate Center
12:30-2:10 p.m.
Student Forum Refereed Roundtable
Housing and Immigration in a Global Context
A Historical Analysis of “immigrant”: In the style of a Foucauldian genealogy
Leslie Savatsky Reynolds, Bowling Green State University
Immigration and Robots: Is the Absence of Immigrants Linked to the Rise of Automation?
L. Larry Liu, Princeton University; Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Section on the Sociology of Religion Referred Roundtables
Religion, Race, and Immigration
Experiencing Sikhism: The Intersection of Religion and Race in the US and UK
Simranjit Khalsa, Rice University
Race Unity Efforts among American Bahá’ís: Institutionalized Tools and Empirical Evidence
John McMullen, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Transmitting Racism Through Religion? Racial Ideology and Racism Among Members and Leaders of Latina/o Multiracial Congregations
Rodrigo Serrao Santana de Jesus, University of South Florida
Social Capital, Islam, and Labor Force Outcomes: Explaining Labor Force Outcomes among Muslim Immigrants in France
Chang Zhe Lin, University of Toronto
12:30-2:10 p.m.
Latino/as
Latinx Immigrant Divisions: The Radio and Digital Media during Rumored ICE Raids
Beatriz Aldana Marquez, Texas State University; Apryl A. Williams, Harvard University; Nancy PlankeyVidela, Texas A&M University; Selene Diaz, Texas A&M Univeristy
Making Noncitizens’ Rights Real: Evidence from Legal Services Fraud Complaints
Juan Manuel Pedroza, University of California, Santa Cruz
MS-13, Moral Panics, and Forced Migrations: Theorizing Deportability and Carceral Studies
Kenneth Sebastian Leon, Rutgers University; Maya P-Money Barak, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Racial Stratification among Latinos in the Mortgage Market
Jose Loya, University of Pennsylvania
Undocumented and Racialized: Mexican undocumented women racialized in the U.S. through interactions in institutions
Heidy Sarabia, California State University, Sacramento
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Theorizing Migration Flows
A Model for Studying Selection Processes in International Migration
Guillermina Jasso, New York University
An Analysis of High Skilled and Low Skilled Migration from Mexico to the US, 1970-2010
Gabriela León-Pérez, Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy
International (im)mobility and global justice in times of gated globalism: toward an institutional migration theory
Arjen Leerkes
Whom Do U.S. Consular Officers Perceive As “NonImmigrants”? How Cultural Habitus Stratifies Legal Mobility From China
Jacob Richard Thomas, University of California-Los Angeles
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Labor Migration
The Return of the Bracero Program: The Migration Industry in the Recruitment of H2 Visa Workers
Ruben Hernandez-Leon, University of California, Los Angeles
Whitewashing Abolition: Racial Vigilantism, Redemptive Labor, and the Global Fight to Combat Human Trafficking
Elena Shih, Brown University
On the Move: Global Care Migration
Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Open Refereed Roundtables
Migration and Adaptation: Legal Immigrants with Undocumented Spouses
Nina Michalikova, University of Central Oklahoma
Symbolic Assailants, Crimmigration and the Immigration Industrial Complex
Denise N. Obinna, Mount St Mary's University
Multicultural coexistence without immigrants: Foreign labor and contemporary Japan
Noriko Matsumoto, University of Vermont
Multiple Expulsions: A Case Study of the Precipitation of an International Humanitarian Migration Crisis in Europe
Karin A.C. Johnson, University of California-Riverside
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Section on Environmental Sociology. Environment, Oppressions, and Justice II
Environmental Injustices in Immigrant Detention: How Absences Are Embedded in the NEPA Process
Michelle L. Edwards, Texas State University; Briana Luna, Texas State University; Hannah Edwards, Texas State University
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Refereed Roundtables
Representation and Inclusivity II
Contact or Conflict? The Effect of Immigrant Colleagues on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Alicia Sheares, University of California, Berkeley
Sociology of Law
Immigrant Workers, Their Lawyers, and Notions of Procedural Justice
Shannon Marie Gleeson, Cornell University
Monday, August 12, 2019
8:30-10:10 a.m.
New Social Movements
Beyond the Good Immigrant: How Identity Politics have Come to Dominate the Dreamer Movement
Walter Nicholls, University of California-Irvine
Social Justice in the Desert: Faith-Based Mobilizing to Save the Lives Along the Arizona-Sonora Desert
Kraig Beyerlein, University of Notre Dame
Borders and Boundaries in Asia and Asian America
Transborder Ethnic Economy: Korean Immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Minjeong Kim, San Diego State University
Section on International Migration. Understanding the Social, Legal, and Political Ramifications of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
DACA and Resetting of Inclusion and Exclusion at Federal and Local Levels/Evolving Impacts on Immigrant Families
Robert Courtney Smith, City University of New York-Baruch College, Graduate Center; Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, CUNY Graduate Center
DACA Rescission and Ontological Security: Anticipatory and Ambiguous Loss Among Undocumented Young Adults
Elizabeth M. Aranda, University of South Florida; Girsea Martinez, University of South Florida; Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University; Heidemarie Castaneda, University of South Florida
Heterogeneous Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on Undocumented College Students’ Educational Outcomes
Keitaro Okura, Yale University; Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY; Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts Boston
Uncertainty about DACA May Undermine its Positive Impact on Health for Recipients and their Children
Caitlin Patler, University of California, Davis; Erin R. Hamilton, University of California, Davis; Kelsey Meagher, UC Davis; Robin Savinar, University of California, Davis
10:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Thematic Sessions. Immigration Policy and the Dilemmas of Justice in the Age of Trump
Expanding Sanctuary: Decriminalization and Resistance in the Trump Era
Amada Armenta, UCLA
The Illiberal Turn: Immigration and the Paradox of American Sovereignty in the Age of Trump
Rick A. Baldoz, Oberlin College
U.S. Immigration and Border Policies: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
Dis-Inegrating Nation: The Impossible Politics of Immigration
Roger Waldinger, Univ of California-Los Angeles
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Section on International Migration Refereed Roundtables
Anti-Immigrant Discourses
Feeling fear in times of polarization: A systematic analysis of bureaucrats’ commentary about migrants.
Carolin Schütze, Lund University
Stigma and Belonging Among the Rising Immigrant Elite in France
Lucas Germain Drouhot, Cornell University
Straddling Insider/Outsider Statuses: Puerto Ricans’ Attitudes Toward Undocumented Immigration
Ariana Jeanette Valle, University of California Los Angeles
Women as Fair Game? Why Some Feminists Support Anti-Immigrant Politics
Janina Selzer, CUNY Graduate Center
Economic, Cultural Threats and Chinese Residents’ Attitudes toward Foreigners in Yiwu, China
Tao Xu
Asian Immigrants, Citizenship, and Belonging
Negotiating “Americanization”: Adaptation and Segmentation of Chinese Restaurants in an American City
Jinpu Wang, Syracuse University
Hispanics and Asians in the New South
Christopher Maggio, City University of New York-Graduate Center
I am You, as You are Me: Citizenship and Belonging in the South Asian chhitmohols
Surya Sankar Sen, National Institute of Advanced Studies
Politics of Citizenship and International Migration: An Exploratory Study of Pak Hindus at the India-Pakistan Borderlands
Srishtee Sethi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Saving Face: A mismatch in educational cultural capital among undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the US
Jia-Lin Liu, New York University; Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University
Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Skills or Origins? Results from a Survey-Based Experiment on Europeans’ Support for Immigration
Sevsem Cicek-Okay, University of Cincinnati; Jeffrey M. Timberlake, University of Cincinnati
Anti-immigrant sentiment as lack of awareness on how unequal global trade flows privilege developed countries
Caroline M. Schoepf, Hong Kong Baptist University
Determinants of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: A Quantitative Analysis using the 2014 General Social Survey (GSS)
Darnell Calderon, California State University Fullerton
Getting Schooled: Egotropic and Sociotropic Effects of Educational Attainment in the Formation of Immigration Attitudes
Raul S. Casarez, Rice University
Civic Incorporation and Belonging
Civic Inequality and Civic Stratification in Immigrant Communities
Irene H.I. Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley
Finding Spaces of Inclusion: Schools, Latina Immigrant Mothers, and the Politics of Belonging
Sarah Bruhn, Harvard University
Living out the Illegality: Strategies of Undocumented Migrants in an Immigrant Enclave of South Korea
Dasom Lee, University of California San Diego
Comparative Immigrant Integration
UK immigrants’ relative income and life satisfaction – The relevance of comparison frames from a multi-generational perspective
Jing Shen, University of Mannheim; Irena Kogan, University of Mannheim
The isolation paradox: A comparative study of social support among migrants and natives
Basak Bilecen, University of Groningen; Raffaele Vacca, University of Florida
Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants in Japan and the United States
Daisuke Ito, Toyo University; Makoto Todoroki, Kanazawa University
Food in Italian Migration to Argentina and the United States: Gender, Racial, and Labor Differences
Katharine Marina Waldmann
National immigration ‘models,’ social welfare regimes, and Muslims’ economic incorporation in France and Canada
Jeffrey G. Reitz, University of Toronto; Emily J. Laxer, Glendon College, York University; Patrick Simon, INED
Drivers and Dynamics of Migration
Are They Deterred by Welfare? Digging into the Drivers of Highly Skilled Migrants in Europe
Hector Cebolla-Boado, UNED; María Miyar Miyar, Uned
Connecting the Dots: Using Social Network Analysis to Untangle the Factors Driving International Migration
Cassie McMillan, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Miller, Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Assimilation in Zambia: Testing Migration Theories in the Global South
Yao Lu, University of California-Davis
Methodological challenges in relation to quantitative research on migrant populations
Dominic Kudlacek, Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony
Dynamics of Incorporation
The effect of socioeconomic integration on life satisfaction among immigrants in Japan
Hiromi Ishizawa, George Washington University; Hirohisa Takenoshita, Keio University; Jie Zhang, Waseda University
The Vietnamese Boat People in Canada: 30 Years Later
Monica Boyd, University of Toronto; Shawn Perron, University of Toronto
Age at Migration and Poverty among Post 1990 Immigrants in Israel: Do Welfare Transfers Matter?
Alisa C. Lewin, University of Haifa; Rebeca Raijman
Pathways to success in an egalitarian institutional context: The second generation in Norway
Arnfinn H. Midtboen, Institute for Social Research, Oslo; Marjan Nadim, Institute for Social Research, Oslo
Understanding Immobility: Moving Beyond the Mobility Bias in Migration Research
Kerilyn Schewel, University of Amsterdam
Family Dynamics of Migration
Indo-Caribbean Women Challenging Motherhood through Migration for Reproductive Health
Tannuja Rozario, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marriage Migration and Gender Role Attitudes of Husbands in a Receiving Country: Korean Case
Seokyoung Kim, Ewha Womans University; Minzee Kim, Ewha Womans University
Possibilities and Constraints in Opportunity Structures: Filipina Marriage Immigrants’ Associational Lives in South Korea
Ilju Kim, Tohoku University; Minjeong Kim, San Diego State University
The Homeownership Attainment of LGB Immigrants: The Role of Social Relationships
Sagi Ramaj, University of Toronto
Gender and Migration
New Residents, New Inequalities? Integrating Male and Female Immigrants in Gender Unequal Japan
Hilary J. Holbrow, Harvard University
Can’t Depend on Love: The Gendered and Classed Effects of Dependency in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1982-2015
Naomi Lightman, University of Calgary; Jennifer Elrick, McGill University
Gender Structure Which Causes Immigration: Postwar Immigrant Japanese Women and Gender Discrimination in Japan
Yuko Nakanishi, Musashi University
Forced Time-Out: The Effects of “Dependent” Visa Status on the Gendered Division of Labor
Hansini Munasinghe, University of Iowa
Migrant Youth
Precarious immobility: DACAmented and longterm unauthorized immigrants in the Bronx, Queens and Long Island
Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, CUNY Graduate Center
DACA youth travel to Mexico and discover a new dual frame of reference
Emir Estrada, Arizona State University; Alissa Ruth, Arizona State University
Leaving and Finding Home: Youth Migration and Family Reunification
Emily Navarro, Elmhurst College
Assimilation and Household Instability among Children in Immigrant Families
Maria Carolina Mota Pereira Aragao, University of Texas at Austin; Inbar Weiss, University of Texas at Austin
First-generation Circular Migrants’ Involvement in the Upbringing of their Grandchildren: Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Tolga Tezcan, University of Florida
Gender and Work
Making it Work: Migration, Motherhood and Employment in Australia
Rennie Lee, University of Melbourne; Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne; Francisco Perales, University of Queensland
The Great Equalizer? Education, Gendered Migrant Networks, and the Occupational Attainment of Highly Skilled Immigrants
Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania; Brown University
Mothers’ Employment when Children are in Preschool: Variations by Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Origin
Christel Kesler, Colby College
Reason for Migration and Economic Integration of Male and Female Immigrants in the Swiss Labor Market
Dina Maskileyson, University of Cologne; Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University; Eldad Davidov, University of Cologne and University of Zurich
Doing Gender, Doing Culture: Gendered Labor and Intersectional Identities in Diasporic Community Building
Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Global and Transnational Perspectives
Transnationally Contextualized Citizenship: Multi-layered Factors Affecting Chinese Immigrant Workers’ Political Participation in NYC
Tianlong You, Arizona State University
Diasporic Political Parties
Michel S. Laguerre, Univ of California-Berkeley
Beyond mechanistic and material approaches to migration: Transnational subjectivity, cultures of migration and notions of modernity and normality
Karolina Barglowski, Technical University Dortmund
Using Family Migration Histories to Facilitate the Teaching of International Migration from a Global Perspective
Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University
Labor Market Incorporation
Migration and Informal Employment: Case of Russia as a second top world receiving country
Tatiana Karabchuk, United Arab Emirates University; Daria Salnikova, National Research University Higher School of Economics
The Great Recession, Labor Market Segmentation and Immigrant Unemployment
Patricia A. McManus, Indiana University
Immigrants in the Labor Market: Examining Change in Labor Market Structure and Immigrant Occupational Outcomes from 1970-2017
Ilana Ventura, University of Chicago
The role of lifelong human capital in the entrepreneurial success of Mexican immigrant women
Veronica Montes, Bryn Mawr College
Earnings of Foreign-born Doctoral Engineers in the United States: Intersection of Immigration Status and Gender
Yu Tao, Stevens Institute of Technology
Legality and Irregular Migration
Legal Exclusion, Civic Exclusion: How Legal Status Stratifies Latino Immigrants’ Civic Engagement
Tianjian Lai
Frictional Identities: How Young Asylum Seekers and the German State Coproduce Liminal Legality
Ulrike Bialas, Princeton University
Nongovernmental Organizations Serving Deported Migrants from the United States
Claire E. Altman, University of Missouri; Sergio Chavez, Rice University; Kendal Lowrey, Pennsylvania State University
Deportation USA: Exploring State-Level Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Judicial Outcomes
Shiyue Cui, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Yulin Yang; Robert M. Adelman, State University of New York-Buffalo
Life Course and Historical Perspectives
Life Events and Timing of Emigration: A Case Study of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Jing Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Weiwen Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Eric Fong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Engendering the life cycle of migration and Elderly Support: Strategies among Latino immigrants in South Philadelphia
Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazque, Universidad de Guadalajara; Chenoa Flippen, University of Pennsylvania
Economic security and structured ambivalence among immigrant seniors
Ann H. Kim, York University; Nancy Mandell, York University
Immigration and Urban Growth, 1990-2000
Michael Joseph Upchurch, Texas A&M University
Migration and Health
Health Without Papers: Immigrants, Citizenship and Health in the 21st Century
Brian Tuohy, University of California, Los Angeles
Migrant Donations and Healthcare Across Borders
Jose Luis Collazo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; José A. Muñoz, CSU San Bernardino
Acculturation and Depressive Symptoms among Latino Immigrants: Examining the Role of Social Support
Elif Bulut, Florida State University; Mathew D. Gayman, Georgia State University
Migration and Social Mobility
“What would my future be?”: Conceptualization of the “future” among Syrian newcomer mothers in Canada
Laila Omar, University of Toronto
Perceptions of Upward Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants
Dalia Abdelhady, Lund University; Amy Lutz, Syracuse University
“One Improves Here Every Day”: Occupational and Learning Journeys of “Lower-Skilled” European Migrants in London
Laura Morosanu, University of Sussex; Russell King, University of Sussex; Aija Lulle, University of Loughborough; Manolis Pratsinakis, University of Oxford
Refugees in Europe and the U.S.
Educational Selectivity among Refugees and Labor Migrants in Western Europe
Cornelia Kristen, University of Bamberg; Christoph Spörlein, University of Bamberg
Female refugee migration: How do survivors of gender-based violence decide to flee?
Zofia Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, UC Davis
Civic-Ethnic Nationalism and the Refugee: Examples from Sweden
Beiyi Hu, CUNY Graduate Center
Value differences amongst refugees and the native German population: Insights from a representative panel study
Lukas Marian Fuchs, Freie Universität Berlin; Christian von Scheve, Freie Universität Berlin
Local refugee integration policies in New York City
Karolina Janina Lukasiewicz, New York University; Tanzilya Oren, Fordham University; Saumya Tripathi, Fordham University
Schools and Education
School Tracking of Migrant-Ethnic Youth in Germany
Max Reason, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Post-1965 Immigration and STEM Faculty in Island Communities
Nathalie P. Rita, University of Hawaii; Marina Karides, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
Sending Contexts
I See Where You’re Coming from...and It Matters: How Migrant Origin Shapes Support for Social Programs
Selen Güler, University of Washington; Mark Igra, University of Washington
Migrating Beyond Networks: The Mechanisms of Sending State Intervention
Suzy K. Lee, Binghamton University
Oil’s Ripple Effects: Remittances’ Impact on Female Labor Participation in the Arab World
Caitlin Ella Wind, New York University
"The thirsty man goes to the well" Aspired Migrants and Brokers: A Case of Pakistan
Tauqeer Hussain Shah, University Bielefeld
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Illegality and Social Justice Research
Sanctuary for Whom? Cities, Policing, and Local Immigration Policy
Amada Armenta, UCLA
Understanding the Impact of Immigrant Detention
Rocio Rosales, University of California-Irvine
Undocumented, Refugees, or Asylees? Solidarity across Legal Boundaries
Leisy Janet Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
The Changing Scales of Immigrant Youth Organizing: Exercising Power in the Electoral, Local, and Cultural Arenas
Veronica Terriquez, UC Santa Cruz
Children, Youth, Adolescents: Scholar Activism on Behalf of Children and Youth
Unaccompanied migrant children in Sicily: Caught between international and humanitarian ideals and nativist populism
Ravinder Barn; Roberta Di Rosa, University of Palermo
Section on International Migration. Migration Crises: Case Studies and Comparative Analyses from Across the World
Assimilation or exclusion? Refugee access to health in Germany after the migrant crisis
Christopher Levesque, University of Minnesota
Asylum seekers welcome? Multilevel analysis of attitudes towards asylum seekers in Europe
Egle Gusciute
From US Request to Mexico Engagement: An Ethnographic and Visual Study of Immigration Enforcement by Proxy
Juan José Bustamante, University of Arkansas; Eric Gamino, California State University, Northridge
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Section on Race, Gender, and Class Refereed Roundtables
Immigration Presider: Emma-Claire LaSaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison An Economy of Safety: Racialized Citizenship, Family and U.S. Immigration
Emma-Claire LaSaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mental Health, Immigration, and Race - Case of Asian American
Doreen Hsu, University of California, San Diego
4:30-6:10 p.m.
Section on International Migration. Immigrant Resistance: Collective Action and Everyday Contention
Arenas of Fragile Alliance (Un-)Making? The Case of Precarious Migrant Activism in Berlin and Vienna
Ilker Ataç, Hochschule RheinMain; Elias Steinhilper, DeZIM Institut e.V.
Civic Participation of Undocumented Immigrants in California
Kevin Beck, University of California, San Diego; Karina Shklyan, University of California, San Diego
The Nexus between Diaspora Mobilization and Immigrant Resistance: A Case Study of the Arab Spring Abroad
Dana M. Moss, University of Pittsburgh
“We Have Rights:” Low-Income Collective Identity and Immigrant Claims-Making in San Francisco
Melanie Jones Gast, University of Louisville; Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University; Emerald Thai Han Nguyen, University of California Davis
4:30-6:10 p.m.
State Policies: Evasion, Implementation and Impact on Livelihood and Welfare of Refugees and Recent Migrants
Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
David Scott FitzGerald, University of California-San Diego
State Policies: Evasion, Implementation and Impact on Livelihood and Welfare of Refugees and Recent Migrants
Cecilia Menjivar, University of California-Los Angeles Unauthorized
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
8:30-10:10 p.m.
Section on Race, Gender, and Class. Sexual Violence and Intersectional Inequalities
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Gendered Politics of Service Provision for Women with Precarious Immigration Status
Salina Abji, Carleton University
Critical Sociology and Public Policy
Immigration Policy as a Social Determinant of Health
Edward D. Vargas, Arizona State University
The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Change American Life
Tomas R. Jimenez
Methodological and Empirical Advances in Global and Transnational Sociology
The Relationship between Assimilation and Cultural Transnational Ties among New Immigrants in the U.S.
Sou Hyun Jang, University of Washington; Sejung Sage Yim, The Graduate Center
Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance Refereed Roundtables
Responses to Gendered Violence
Caught Between a State and a Family-Place: Immigrant Women’s Experiences of U-Visas
Ghazah Abbasi, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Effects of Race & Place on Policing Policy and Practice
Protecting Immigrants and Punishing Gangs: Crafting the crimmigration police in Chicago’s sanctuary city regime
Enrique Alvear, University of Illinois at Chicago
Section on Aging and the Life Course. Current Debates in Aging and the Life
US Immigration Policies and Health of Older Immigrants
Zoya Gubernskaya, University at Albany
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Social Factors and Suicide: New Developments
How Does Immigration Affect Suicide? Analysis of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Julie A. Phillips, Rutgers University
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Borders of Compassion: International Migration and Parochial Altruism
Alexander Kustov, Princeton University
Migratory Aspirations: How Aspiring Migrants and Refugees Decide to Leave
Mexicans’ Migration Intentions in an Era of Heightened U.S. Enforcement
Joshua Thomas Wassink, Princeton University
Religion as a migratory aspiration: The case of the migration of Filipina Muslim domestic workers
Julien Debonneville, University of Geneva
Why Ethiopian women migrate to the Middle East
Kerilyn Schewel, University of Amsterdam; Tilah Alemayehu, Sher Ethiopia PLC
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Refereed Roundtables
Citizenship and Migration Citizenship: What Money Can Buy
Kristin Surak, SOAS, University of London
Global Citizenship amid Transitional Periods of Increased Importance of STEM: Illustrations of Contemporary Sociocultural Challenges
Beverly Lindsay, University of California; Eric Jason Simeon, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
Making a Market in Citizenship
Kristin Surak, SOAS, University of London
Mapping Digital Nomads Globally: The New Urban Networks of Remote Work
Jeffrey L. Sternberg, Northeastern University
The GMP Travel Dataset: A Global Source on Transnational Human Mobility
Emanuel Deutschmann, European University Institute; Ettore Recchi, European University Institute and Sciences Po Paris
12:30-2:10 p.m.
Section on Asia and Asian America Roundtables
International Migration
Mental Health, Immigration, and Race: Case of Asian Americans
Doreen Hsu, University of California, San Diego
Re-examining hyper-selectivity: Occupational niches as ethnic capital
Brenda Gambol, CUNY-The Graduate Center
The Health Implications of Foreign Domestic Helpers’ Family and Friendship Network in Hong Kong
Jing Ye, University of Maryland, College Park; Feinian Chen, University of Maryland
Toward An Embodied Dynamics Model to Migration
Jing Zhao, University of British Columbia
2:30-4:10 p.m.
Challenges and Barriers in Health Care Delivery
Access to the Health Care Safety Net for Hispanic Immigrants in Established Gateways and New Destinations
Emily Anne Parker, Cornell University
Migration Protections, and Justice
Transnational Social Protection: Moving Forward the Agenda
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College; Erica Dobbs, Pomona College; Ruxandra Paul, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Intersecting Transnational Social Protection: Chinese Emigrants in Canada
Sara R. Curran, University of Washington; Lake Ching Wu Lui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Transforming Gender Expectations? Experiences of Transnational Indian Women Entrepreneurs
Manashi Ray, West Virginia State University
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Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
4:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Princeton University, Jones Hall, #211
Princeton, NJ 08544
https://eap.princeton.edu/events/help-not-wanted-immigration-politics-japan
Speaker(s):
Michael Strausz
Texas Christian University
Description: Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Michael Strausz will answer this question by drawing on insights from nearly two years of intensive field research in Japan. Ultimately, he will argue that Japan’s immigration policy has remained restrictive for two reasons. First, Japan’s labor-intensive businesses have failed to defeat anti-immigration forces within the Japanese state, particularly those in the Ministry of Justice and the Japanese Diet. Second, no influential strain of elite thought in postwar Japan exists to support the idea that significant numbers of foreign nationals have a legitimate claim to residency and citizenship.
In addition to an overview of postwar Japan’s immigration control policy, this presentation provide context to recent developments in Japanese immigration policy – particularly the December 2018 decision to admit more than 300,000 low skilled foreign laborers.
Michael Strausz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University. He earned his BA in international relations and Japanese from Michigan State University and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Washington. His book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan will be published with SUNY Press in August, and he has published a number of other articles and book chapters about topics including Japan’s immigration policy and Japanese whaling. His research has been funded by grants from the Japan Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation, and he is a member of Cohort III of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation ’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.
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16th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Monday, October 7, 2019
Georgetown University Law Center
Bernard P. McDonough Hall
Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/16thannual-immigration-law-policy-conference
Description: This annual conference put on by MPI and its partners, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center, features thoughtful policy and legal analysis and discussion of the most important immigration topics from leading government officials, attorneys, researchers, advocates, and others.
Check back for more information. Registration will open in late June.
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Diaspora and Homeland
Thursday-Friday, October 10-11, 2019
Zagreb, Croatia
https://croatiandiasporacentre.com/english/
Description: In today’s globalized world we are witness to the fact that, as never before in history, diasporas have a major role in the political, ecoonomic, cultural, religious, social and sporting life of their countries of origin. The fact that over 258 million people live outside of their country of birth and that they send more than 625 billion dollars in remittances to their country of origion perhaps best illustrates the huge potential of diasporas for their home countries. While the major focus of diasporas and homeland is on their remittances, there are many examples of how diasporas can and do through their various activities contribute to the advancement and success of their homelands both internally and in foreign affairs.
One such example which illustrates the success of a diaspora in creating economic success in the homeland is that of Chilean immigrants who returned to their homeland at the call of then Chilean leader Pinochet. These returning immigrants brought their know-how and experience to practically empower in a short period of time the economic upturn of the Chilean economy.The recent world cup of football in Russia is another example of diaspora contributions to homeland. Many football teams had diaspora players as part of their starting lineups. The best example of this was the Croatian national team which played in the finals of the world cup and which had two thirds of its players born outside of Croatia. These examples not only manifest on the one hand the strength and power of diasporas, but on the other hand also evidence of its huge potential and role in the developmental strategy of their countries of origin. Following the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, millions of citizens of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and other countries of the former Yugoslavia moved to the more developed countries of the democratic world, especially Europe. Faced with this new process of emigration, these countries were overnight faced with the task of developing national strategies and programs of cooperation between diaspora communities and their homelands.
In light of this new situation and the relations between diaspora and homeland, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2015 accepted Resolution 2043 titled “Democratic participation for migrant diasporas”. Among other things this resolution recommended that its members introduce policies which would facilitate diaspora members’ involvement in political life, review national legislation with a view to granting special status to members of diasporas in their countries of origin and facilitating the return process where appropriate, and promote diaspora members’ contribution to the development of their country of origin through the transfer of their knowledge, education and experience. The main focus of the conference is to examine the strategies and programs of individual countries towards their diasporas and in turn the relationships of diaspora with their home countries.
Conference themes include:
1. Diaspora relations – government
2. State policy and practice relating to the diaspora
3. The return of emigrants and their integration into the country of origin – success or failure
4. Direct diaspora investments
5. The influence of the diaspora on the country of origin
6. Immigrant tourism
7. Diaspora in international relations
8. Diaspora as a safety factor
9. Diaspora – media, radio programs, newspapers and publications
10. Emigrant literature
The conference organisers would like to emphasise that presenters have the opportunity to present on a different theme that is related to the general purpose.
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Workshop: Cities and the global governance of migration. An under-explored link.
Thursday-Friday, October 17-18, 2019
Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca
Migration Policy Centre
Florence, Italy
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/event/cities-and-the-global-governance-of-migration-an-under-explored-link-17-18-october-2019/
Description: In the last two decades research on various aspects of subnational governments’ policymaking on migration and diversity issues has been expanding and consolidating, leading to a ‘local turn’ in migration scholarship. Case studies and comparative research in Europe and beyond have shed light on how migration policies and laws are not only implemented but also actively produced and shaped in local arenas in which actors with different interests and conceptions of migration-related challenges continuously interact. More recently, a relational and multilevel governance perspective has been emerging: local governments are conceptualised more and more as actors in complex regulatory processes which include a multiplicity of actors at different territorial scales, both public and non public.
In this panorama though, the dimension of the global mobilisation of local governments on migration is still underdeveloped, especially vis-á-vis other policy fields such as environment and climate change. Why and how cities get engaged in policy processes around migration issues beyond the borders of their national principals are still open questions. Yet cities are becoming more and more active on the international and global migration scene, as demonstrated by their participation in the Global Compact of Migration or by the mobilisation of – old and new – transnational city networks on the issue of refugees’ reception.
In this workshop we aim at establishing a dialogue between scholars who, from different disciplinary perspectives and using different theoretical and methodological approaches, are working on the mobilisation of cities in the global governance of migration. We welcome studies that take a city perspective as well as those that focus on the organisations (e.g. City Networks) or venues (e.g. GCM forum) promoting/enabling cities’ international mobilisation on various aspects of migration-related policies (e.g. integration, asylum seekers reception, access to social assistance etc.).
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Migration Control - Book Panel
2:00-4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 14, 2019
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
https://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/Seminars.html
Speakers:
John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Invention of the Passport, 2nd Edition
Daniel Martinez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the US-Mexico Border
David FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in US - Mexican Relations, UC San Diego
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Refuge Beyond Reach
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14th Homeland Security Week
Wednesday-Friday, November 20-22, 2019
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://www.idga.org/events-homelandsecurityweek
https://plsadaptive.s3.amazonaws.com/eco/files/event_content/hsw-draft-agenda_VhYFVL8UUbZWEBNVzgJx8NCUOnEeFFHeCxZ8RG8k.pdf
Preliminary program:
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
9:00 a.m.
FEMA’s Strategic Plan for the Future 2018-2022
-Increasing resilience through increasing disaster preparedness on a local level
-Enhance coordination with intergovernmental agencies
-Streamline FEMA’s grant management and improve data analytics
9:45 a.m.
Modernizing Maritime Security And Border Management
-Future strategies of the Coast Guard
-Current theatre of operations and capability gaps
-Procurement priorities and strategic shifts
11:15 a.m.
Procurement and Border Management
-Border management modernization requirements.
-The improvement of border management integration, including tailored procurement of specialized equipment
Rose Marie Davis, Director, Innovative Program Acquisitions, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
DOJ’S Counter-UAS Protection and Acquisition Priorities
-Pinpointing unique requirements of the DOJ to fulfill its objectives - Taking lessons from DOD’s counter-UAS acquisition strategies applying them at home
-Testing and fielding counter-UAS technologies to determine the suitability of solutions
Scott Miller, Assistant Section Chief, Surveillance & Aviation, FBI
12:00 p.m.
Confronting the Opioid Crises and Protecting the American People
-Working with interagency and international partners on a comprehensive approaches
-Identifying and monitoring networks of foreign suppliers and domestic importers of fentanyl
-Increasing investigation and prosecution efforts
Combating Nuclear Terrorism: DHS’s Efforts to Protect Key Cities from WMDs
-Providing local agencies with equipment for detecting nuclear material
-Training local law enforcement
-Track progress by collecting data from the key cities
Dr. Jeffrey H. Musk, Chief, Nuclear Detection Division, Nuclear Technologies Department Research & Development Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
1:30 p.m.
Challenges and Opportunities in Protecting Energy Critical Infrastructure
-Invest in next-generation physical security controls and cybersecurity technologies
-Continually analyzing and gaming the energy cyber-threat landscape
-Share and communicate cybersecurity information between the public and private sectors
Ronald Keen, Senior Energy Advisor, National Risk Management Center, CISA, DHS
Protecting the Nation’s Food Supply
-Identifying sector-wide vulnerabilities and gaps
-Identifying indicators and warnings that could signify planning for an attack
-Develop mitigation strategies to reduce the threat/prevent an attack
Jennie Melin, Consumer Safety Officer, FDA
2:15 p.m.
War on Drugs: Combating Organized Drug Cartels at the Border
-Increasing cohesion between federal, state and local agencies at the border
-Partnering with foreign nations to deny drug cartels a safe haven
-Monitoring money laundering and smuggling operations to hamper drug operations
Increasing the Nation’s Preparedness Against Chemical and Biological Threats
-Improving threat awareness through intelligence collecting and sharing
-Investing in advanced detection and surveillance technologies
-Putting in place responsive countermeasure policies
3:30 p.m.
Procurement standards and guideline for providing goods and services to FEMA
-Purpose and importance of current rules in place
-Providing a broad overview of federal procurement rules
-Relationship between Federal rules, State, Local and Tribal procurement rules
4:15 p.m.
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
Thursday, November 21, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Identifying and Mediating National Security Threats
-Monitoring activities of groups and movements potentially at risk for radicalization and violence
-Improving information sharing policy for the Department
-Building partnerships with nation-wide State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers
David Glawe, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security
9:45 a.m.
CISA’s Priorities for Advancing Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resiliency
-Strategies in working with private partners to secure our infrastructure
-Priorities for coordinating national cyber security and communications integration center
-Coordinating security and resiliency efforts through public private partnerships
Brian Harrell, Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, CISA, DHS
11:15 a.m.
DHS’s Evolving Requests for DoD Support Along the South-West Border
-DHS’s support requirements from April 2018 to present
-How and why those requests have evolved along with the evolving situation at the SWB
-DHS’ expectations for DoD support in FY20 and beyond
LTC Kelly Brown, Senior National Guard Advisor to DHS, U.S. Army
Leadership in Cyber
-Strategic and forward thinking
-Mentoring and nurturing talent to increase potential
-Learning and improving by listening
Kevin Nally, Chief Information Officer, US Secret Service
12:00 p.m.
Engaging with the Private Sector to Better Protect Critical Infrastructures
-Weather related threats to critical supply chains
-Improving emergency protocols
-Conducting research into improving strategies and practices Kay Mereish, Senior Advisor, DHS
The race for 5G: Protecting Emerging FifthGeneration Wireless Networks
-End-to-end protection of network traffic
-Investing in R&D to address threats and vulnerabilities to mobile networks
-Improving visibility of traffic from mobile devices to detect malware, cyberattacks and data exfiltration attempts
12:30 p.m.
Interactive Discussion Groups
During this part of the conference, each attendee will have the opportunity to select three topics of their interest from the list below and will rotate between those sessions. Discussion groups are kept small to ensure all attendees get the opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, ensuring a perfectly tailored experience.
1:30 p.m.
IDG Group 1
Key to Identifying Potential Terrorists through Research
-Identity crises often plays a significant role in a person’s transition to terrorism
-Often potential terrorists will take part in certain activities that raise red flags about their intents
-Connections with known terrorists online or offline are a big factor in radicalization
Dr. Allison G. Smith, Social Scientist, DHS
IDG Group 2
Using AI for Video Analysis and Increasing Security
-Improving multimedia analytics
-Increasing video data processing time through automation
-Increasing automatic threat detection
Dr. Jeff Alstott, Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
IDG Group 3
sUAS Threats and Policy Hurdles Facing Local Police Authorities
-sUAS threat profile for local communities
-Laws and policies limiting the abilities of local law enforcement
-Partnership opportunities with DHS to counter the threat of sUAS
IDG Group 4
Deploying Biometrics Technologies To Secure Sensitive Facilities
-Assessing security vulnerabilities of facilities
-Adding biometrics as an added layer of security
-Picking the best biometric security solutions for your facility
2:15 p.m.
Key Updates On The National Vetting Center Operations
-What are some of the lessons learned?
-Approaches to working with the IC community to support NVC’s operations
-Plans for expansion of vetting and enabling advanced analytics capabilities
National Security Threats Posed by Quantum Computing & Strategies to Mitigate Them
-Deploying more resilient cryptography standards
-Investing in quantum computing solutions
-Developing partnership with private industry to share technological know how
Using Artificial Intelligence and Situational Awareness Technologies for Critical Incident Response
-Enhancing quick decision-making skills
-Improving awareness connectivity between first responders
-Improving patient outcomes and healthcare
The Future of Biometrics & Identity Technologies
-What does the future of identity verification look like?
-Strategies and policies for biometric technology for the next 10 years
-Addressing privacy concerns and data leaks
2:45 p.m.
Improving Airport Security with the Help of AI
-Using machine learning-powered tools that can aide agents to identify threats
-accurately predict the location of threat objects on the body
Using Blockchain Technology to Improve Safety of Critical Infrastructures
-Blockchain shows promise to better protect IoT
-Improved defense mechanisms against collaborative intrusion detection
Dangers of Irregular Migration to National Security
-Human trafficking and drug smuggling networks
-Risk of potential terrorists
-Increased chance of spread of infectious diseases
Blas Nunez-Neto, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND
Transitioning Identity Management Systems To The Cloud
-Update on the development of HART
-Addressing stakeholder challenges
-Increasing collaboration and data sharing
4:00 p.m.
Promoting Best Practices and Streamlining Acquisition Management at DHS
-Establish cross-functional teams in which key stakeholders coordinate and execute the acquisition tasks
-Strategically assess agency needs and how acquisition can meet those needs
-Establish mechanisms that promote the participation of small business suppliers
4:30 p.m.
Cyber threats to critical infrastructure (what are the threats? How to counter them? How to mitigate impact of?
Bob Kolasky, Director, National Risk Management Center, CISA
Lara Schmidt, Director, Strategy, Policy, and Operations Program, RAND
Ryan Consaul, Senior International Defense Researcher, RAND
Friday, November 22, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Breaking Down the DHS Information Technology Strategic Plan 2019-2023
-Optimize workplace technologies with cost-efficient and high impact solutions
-Developing a plan for safe and swift cloud migration
-Implement data protection practices to safeguard DHS systems and applications
9:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation -James P. O'Neill, Police Commissioner, NYPD
11:15 a.m.
The Nexus Between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Homeland Defense: A Whole of Nation Mission
-The strategic environment demands an urgent reexamination of Homeland Defense
-Any gaps between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security must be addressed
-DoD Mission Assurance requires whole of community partnerships
Neal Anderson, Senior Advisor to DHS, NORAD
Promoting Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Security and Increase Resilience within the Nation’s Chemical Industry
-Developing and implementing partnerships -Strategies and protocols during natural disasters
-Promoting good practices among federal, state and local agencies
Eric Choy, Chief, Chemical Sector Specific Agency, CISA, DHS
Amy Graydon, Deputy Director at Infrastructure Security Compliance Division, DHS
Jonathan Buckles, Section Chief, Government & Industry Affairs, DHS
12:00 p.m.
Engaging with the Private Sector to Better Protect Critical Infrastructures
-Establishing protocols to promote information sharing
-Equipping Private Sector critical infrastructure owners and the intelligence needed to protect instrumental assets
-Strengthening and expanding current partnership agreements
Modernizing CBP’s IT Infrastructure to increase network resilience and streamlining CBP operations
-Implementing cloud technologies to better connect the vast CBP IT network
-Using machine learning and data analytics tools to improve CBP’s threat and fraud detection capabilities
-Modernizing CBP network to increase bandwidth for all users and increasing protection against attacks
1:30 p.m.
Developing Effective Response Plans to CBRN Attacks That Minimize Risk to Personnel
-Training federal government employees in how to best respond to CBRN attacks with minimal loss of services
-Identifying new and emerging technologies in the field and finding their applications within Homeland Security
Sean Crawford, Director, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Office, FEMA
Investing in full spectrum impedance and denial capabilities to reduce illegal immigration, drug smuggling and human trafficking
-Increasing infrastructure investment at the border and enforcement of immigration and criminal laws
-Equipping our law enforcement professionals with the latest tools, technology, and training they need to do their job
-Collaborating with federal and local law enforcement agencies and international
2:15 p.m.
Supporting Border Response And Recovery Capabilities With And Between Federal, State, Local And Canadian Partners
-Implementing plans to promote open communication and strategies across the international boundary
-Evaluating progress toward addressing capability gaps in the Northern and Southern Border
-Policies & Plans to facilitate effective response and recovery operations
Manpower, the core of CBP: Recruiting, Hiring, training, and retaining the most qualifies people
-Enhancing recruiting and hiring efforts and reducing obstacles to attracting quality candidates
-Improving the messaging of recruitment campaigns to more closely align with CBP’s mission
-Offering incentives to increase staff retention
3:15 p.m.
Intelligence Sharing Panel Discussion
Protecting the American people from ever-changing domestic and transnational threats requires a DHS that shares intelligence not only with internal agencies but also partnering federal intelligence agencies. In this panel leaders from various national intelligence agencies will discuss how far they have come since 9/11 when it comes to intelligence sharing and pinpoint areas for improvement.
Panelists:
Sean Moon, Chief, Global Strategies, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, DHS
Lilian Alessa, Deputy Chief, Global Strategies, DHS
3:45 p.m.
Enforcing our Immigration Laws by Empowering and Modernizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
-Increasing the numbers of law enforcement officers and support personnel
-Investing in safe and secure detention facilities
-Partnering with foreign governments to expedite necessary removals
4:30 p.m.
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
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