UF Center for Latin American Studies
Immigration Reform and Beyond?
The 5th Conference on Immigration to the US South
October 23-25, 2014
Gainesville, Florida
The 5th Conference on Immigration to the US South (formerly Conference on Immigration to
the Southeast) is a multidisciplinary meeting focusing on immigration and its impact in the US
South. Conference panels will also engage in comparative analysis of other regions and bring in
transnational and global perspectives. Under the theme, “Immigration Reform and Beyond,”
the conference will feature keynote presentations by Archbishop Thomas Wenski (Archbishop
of Miami), Dr. Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of
History at Columbia University), and Mónica Ramírez (El Centro de los Derechos del Migrante).
In addition, several conference presentations aim to promote an understanding of short-term
and long-term challenges of immigration reform. Other panels will focus on undocumented
youth, immigrant detention, legal and policy issues, media and public opinion, immigrant health
and education issues, and best practices in community-based and faith-based organizing.
The UF Center for Latin American Studies was founded in 1930 and has been recognized as a
National Resource Center by the US Department of Education since the early 1960s. The
mission of the Center for Latin American Studies is to advance knowledge about Latin America
and the Caribbean and its peoples throughout the hemisphere. With over 170 faculty members
from colleges across UF, the Center is one of the largest institutions anywhere devoted to
interdisciplinary research, teaching and outreach on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino
Studies.
As one of the major initiatives of the Center, the Program for Immigration, Religion, and Social
Change (PIRSC) seeks to develop effective models of intervention, exchange, and outreach,
deploying the resources of the University of Florida to address the urgent needs of immigrant
communities in the U.S. South.
Conference Organizers
Conference Co-chairs:
Philip Williams, Director and Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Manuel Vásquez, Chair and Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida
Conference Coordinator:
Nathalia Ochoa, Program Coordinator, Center for Latin American Studies
Conference Steering Committee
Fr. Fred Kammer SJ, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University, New Orleans
Alan LeBaron, Center for Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University
Elaine Levine, Centro de Investigaciones Sobre America del Norte, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
Susan Weishar, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University, New Orleans
Conference Co-Sponsors:
Program for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change (PIRSC), UF Center for Latin American
Studies
Center for Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University
The Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI) of Loyola University, New Orleans
The Centro de Investigaciones Sobre America del Norte of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México
The conference is made possible by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.
Special Thanks to:
Kym Dalton
Macarena Moraga
Liquid Creative Studio
Immigration Reform and Beyond? The 5th Conference on Immigration to the US South
Thursday October 23, 2014
Registration Pickup…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1:00-1:15
Emerson Second Floor Lobby
Welcome………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1:15-1:30
President A&B
Session 1……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1:45-3:15
Traffic Enforcement as a Regime of Immigrant Social Control in the South: Uncovering Logics and
Mechanics, Exploring Consequences and Responses ………………….………………………………………….Class Room
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Angela Stuesse, University of South Florida
o Co-Presenters: Laura Baum, University of South Florida
Adelina Nicholls, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
David Iberkleid, ReK2 (Atlanta)
Nolan Kline, University of South Florida
Mathew Coleman, The Ohio State University
Austin Kocher, The Ohio State University
Immigrant Health Issues………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Warrington
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Joan Flocks, University of Florida
o Co-Presenters: Jeannie Economos, Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF)
José Antonio Tovar, Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF)
 Paper Title: “Academic/Community Collaborative Research to Improve Farmworker
Health and Safety”
Presenter: Jean Hernandez, Latino Outreach Coordinator at AIDS Alabama
 Paper Title: “Alabama Latino AIDS Coalition (ALAC)”
Presenter: Barbara Zsembik, University of Florida
o Co-Presenter: Cristina Ramos Solis, University of Florida
 Paper Title: “Health Selectivity of Migrants from Latin America: The Perspective of
Origin Countries”
Home-School-Community Partnerships……….…………………………………………………………………………President C
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Maria Coady, University of Florida
o Co-Presenter: Valerie Boughanem, Levy County School Board, Florida
Presenter: Robert Cancio Jr., University of Miami
 Paper Title: “Social Capital as a Tool for Education”
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Co-Presenter: Valerie Hunt, Seattle Central College
 Paper Title: “Preventing Recurring Inequalities”
Coffee Break…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3:15-3:30
Conference Room 207-208
Session 2………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3:30-5:00
Detention and the New Jim Crow/Juan Crow………………………………………………………………………...Class Room
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Panel Chair: Manuel Vásquez, University of Florida
Presenter: Roberto Lovato, New America Media, San Francisco
 Paper Title: “Juan Crow: The Making of a New Southern Underclass”
Presenter: Terence Courtney, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
 Paper Title: “Mass Incarceration and Mass Detention-Two Sides of the Same Coin”
Presenter: Jennifer Cullison, University of Colorado Boulder
 Paper Title: “The First U.S. Privatized Immigrant Detention Centers: Local
Immigrant Community Responses in Texas”
Mobilizing Faith Communities…………………………………………………………………………………………………Warrington
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Samuel Trickey, Professor Emeritus University of Florida, and Board Member
of the National Farmworker Ministry
o Co-Presenters: Elena Stein, Interfaith Action Southwest Florida
Rev. Larry Green, Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice
Presenter: Susan Weishar, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University, New
Orleans
 Paper Title: “Creating Common Ground in the Discourse on Immigration: The
Experience of Catholic Dialogs on Immigration in the New Orleans Area”
Immigration and Public Opinion……………………………………………………………………………………………...President C
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Charles Brockett, Sewanee: The University of the South
 Paper Title: “Implications of US Public Opinion for Immigration Reform Today”
Presenter: Rita Nassar, University of Illinois
 Paper Title: “Immigrants as a Material Threat”
Presenter: Amy Stringer, University of Florida
 Paper Title: “Crossing the Border: Latino Attitudes toward Immigration Policy”
Keynote Speaker Archbishop Thomas Wenski …………………...………………………………………5:15-6:15 pm
 Title: The Church Religious Perspective on Immigration
Reform...………………………………………………………………………………………….President A&B
Born in West Palm Beach on October 18, 1950, Archbishop Thomas Wenski grew up in Lake Worth,
Florida with his sister and his parents of Polish descent. He studied as a seminarian in Florida and was
ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Miami in 1976. As a priest, Father Wenski was known for his
devoted support of the pastoral and spiritual needs of the Haitian community of South Florida by serving
at mission parishes and centers aiding newly arrived immigrants. In 1996, he
was appointed the Archdiocese Director of Catholic Charities, where he helped
forge a collaborative relationship with Caritas Cuba, the social service arm of
the Catholic Church in Cuba.
In 1997, he was ordained auxiliary Bishop of Miami, and remains the only
Florida native serving as a bishop in the state. Through the years, he served on
a number of community and civic organizations, including Miami-Dade
County's Homeless Trust, the Coordinating Council of Broward and in 2001,
Governor Bush appointed him to the Florida Council on Homelessness as well
as the Governor's Task Force on Haiti in 2004.
In 2004, Bishop Wenski assumed the role of bishop of the Diocese of Orlando, and returned to Miami in
2010 when he was installed as Archbishop of Miami. He also has traveled a number of times to Cuba and
Haiti, especially since the 2010 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.
In addition to English, Archbishop Wenski is fluent in Haitian Creole and Spanish.
The archbishop's episcopal motto is "Omnia Omnibus," which means "all things to all men." The
scriptural text is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians, "I have become all things to all men, to
save at least some." (9:22)
Reception…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…………6:15-8:30
President A&B
Friday October 24, 2014
Coffee Break………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………8:45-9:00
Conference Room 207-208
Session 3…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….9:00-10:30
Understanding the El Sol Story: From Conflict to Integration ……………………………………………..….Class Room
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Timothy J. Steigenga, Florida Atlantic University Wilkes Honors College
o Co-Presenters: Jocelyn Skolnik, Director of El Sol Resource Center
Andy Lukasic, Town Manager of Jupiter Florida
Sandra Lazo, Prime Time Palm Beach County Inc.
Vicente Gaspar Manuel, Worker and volunteer at El Sol
Media and Media Representations…………………………………………………………………………………………Warrington
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Panel Chair: Fr. Fred Kammer SJ, Loyola University, New Orleans
Presenter: Sandra Galindo, PhD
 Paper Title: “A Clash of Words: How the United States and Mexican Media
Represents Mexican Immigrants”
Presenter: Irene Brown, Emory University
o Co-Presenters: Natalie Delia-Deckard, Emory University
Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
 Paper Title: “Different Game, Different Frame? Depictions of Immigration in
Atlanta's African American and Mainstream Press"
Panel Participant(s): Luis Marentes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
 Paper Title: “The Place of Social Media in the Current Immigration Reform Debate”
Immigrant Remittances……………………………………………………………………………………………………………President C
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Panel Chair: Alan LeBaron, Kennesaw State University
Presenter: Therese Kennelly Okraku, University of Florida
 Paper Title: “Reframing Remittances Through the Lens of Investment in Social
Networks”
Presenter: Arinka Abad, State University of New York at Albany
 Paper Title: “International Migration, Remittances and Gender: A Qualitative Study
of the Peruvian Province of Callao”
Presenter: Cristina Ramos, University of Florida
 Paper Title: “Gender and Remittances in Ecuador”
Coffee Break………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10:30-10:45
Conference Room 207-208
Session 4……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10:45-12:15
New Patterns of Mexican and Central American Migration……………………………………………………..Class Room
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Panel Chair: Philip Williams, University of Florida
Presenter: Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola, CIESAS Peninsular, México
o Co-Presenter: Dra. Inés Cornejo Portugal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
 Paper Title: “Established and Recent Young Maya Immigrants”
Presenter: Cristina Amescua, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
 Paper Title: “Performing Identities: The Reproduction, Reshaping and Reinvention
of Mexican Immigrants’ Cultural Practices in Atlanta Metropolitan Area”
Presenter: Larisa Lara, University of Oxford
 Paper Title: “The Role of the Mexican Diaspora in National Emigration Policies”
Presenter: Deniz Daser, Rutgers University
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Paper Title: “Tracing Capital, Tracing Labor: Historicizing Honduran Migration to
New Orleans”
Presenter: Shelley LaMon, University of California Santa Barbara
 Paper Title: “New Settlers, New Migrants: Farm Labor and Community in California
and Florida”
Immigration Laws in South Carolina: How are Latinos experiencing it? ……………………………….Warrington
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Myriam Torres, Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies, University of
South Carolina
o Co-Presenters: Tammy Besherse, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Mari Borghini, PASOs Programs, South Carolina
Undocumented Youth………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……President C
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Panel Chair: Manuel Vásquez, University of Florida
Presenter: Lisa Martínez, University of Denver
 Paper Title: “’Nine Numbers Stopped Me from Doing So Much’: How Immigration
Policies Affect Undocumented Youth and Mixed-Status Families”
Presenter: Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida
o Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Vaquera, University of South Florida
 Paper Title: “What Does it Mean to Be an American? Undocumented Youth’s
Conceptions of Citizenship”
Presenter: Edelina Burciaga, University of California Irvine
 Paper Title: “Threats and Opportunities: The Role of State Immigration Law and
Policy in the Mobilization of the Undocumented 1.5-Generation”
Presenter: Benjamin Roth, University of South Carolina
 Paper Title: “Implementing Hope? Exploring the Impact of Deferred Action in South
Carolina”
Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Dr. Mae Ngai…………………………………………………………………….12:15-1:45
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Title: “Illegal” Immigration to the U.S. — Origins, Consequences,
Remedies…………………………………………………………………………………………….President A&B
Mae M. Ngai is Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia
University and Director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
She is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration,
citizenship, and nationalism. Professor Ngai is author of the award
winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern
America (2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention
of Chinese America (2010). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy
for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and
the Boston Review. Before becoming a historian she was a labor-union organizer
and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium
for Worker Education. She is now working on Yellow and Gold: The Chinese
Mining Diaspora, 1848-1908, a study of Chinese gold miners and racial politics in the nineteenth-century
California, the Australian colony of Victoria, and the South African Transvaal.
Session 5……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2:00-3:30
Immigration Reform…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Class Room
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Elaine Levine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
 Paper Title: “The Economics and Politics of Immigration Reform in the US Today”
Presenter: Meghan Conley, University of Mary Washington
 Paper Title: “What Do We Want, What do We Need, and What Is Non-Negotiable?:
Immigrant Rights Claimsmaking in the Rejection of ‘Comprehensive Immigration
Reform’”
Presenter: Silas Allard, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University
 Paper Title: “Good Workers and Bad Immigrants: The Role of Productivity in
Immigration Reform Legislation”
Presenter: Justin García, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
 Paper Title: “A Dream Deferred, or Stuck Between Barack and a Hard Place?: Marco
Rubio, the Republican Party, and the Complexities of Immigration Politics”
Presenter: Ana Maria Aragonés, Université Montpellier
o Co-Presenter: Uberto Salgado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
 Paper Title: “The Real Interests of Immigration Reform: A Case Study”
State Level Policy Responses to Immigration………………………………………………………………………..Warrington
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Panel Chair: Philip Williams, University of Florida
Presenter: Margaret Commins, Queens University of Charlotte
o Co-Presenter(s): Morgan Yaguda, Queens University of Charlotte
 Paper Title: “Do Industries Matter? Analyzing Competing Theories of the
Determinants of State-level Immigration Policies”
Presenter: Robin Jacobson, Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound
 Paper Title: “Southern Hospitality?: Political Responses to New Immigration in
North Carolina”
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Presenter: Silvia Giagnoni, Auburn University of Montgomery
 Paper Title: “Walk-Ins Welcome: Restaurants and Direct Contact in Alabama in the
Age of HB 56”
Non-Violent Action, Civil Disobedience, and Immigration Reform………………………………………….President C
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Tammy Alexander, Mennonite Central Committee
o Co-Presenters: Rev. Noel Andersen, Interfaith Immigration Coalition Church World Service
Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Rev. Parrish Jones, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship (St. Augustine State
College)
Coffee Break…………………………………………………………………………………………….…….……………………..3:30-3:45
Conference Room 207-208
Session 6………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….3:45-5:15
Promotores de Salud: A Vital Strategy for Alleviating Health Disparities Experienced by Immigrants in
Florida ……………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………….Class Room
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project, Gainesville, Florida
o Co-Presenters: Luz Corcuera, Healthy Start Coalition of Manatee County
Ana Laura Bolaños, Alianza de Mujeres Activas
Maria Granado, Lake County Community Health Worker’s Program
Betzy Rega, El Sol Community Resource Center
Homeland Diaspora Partnerships…………………………………………………………………………………………….Warrington
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Aileen Josephs, Honorary Consul of Guatemala in Palm Beach County
o Co-Presenter: Roberto Monjaras, Director of Maya lq Balam Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida
Presenter: Alan LeBaron, Kennesaw State University
 Paper Title: “Ethical and Practical Problems Working with Guatemalan Maya in the
United States”
Dissecting the Immigrant Detention Machine: Immigration Detention in the
South…………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………….Class Room
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Panel Chair(s)/Presenter(s): Grey Torrico, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Azadeh Shahshahani, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia
Break……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5:15-6:30
Keynote Speaker Mónica Ramírez.…………………………………………………………………..……………..….…6:30-7:30
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Title: The Pendulum of Anti-Immigrant Animus and Its Impact on Discourse, Policy
and Public Action……………………………………………………………………………….President A&B
Mónica Ramírez is an activist, attorney, author, teacher, and speaker. She is recognized as one of the
nation’s leaders in the movement to end workplace sexual violence against farmworker and low-wage
immigrant women.
Daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, Ramírez has been a
farmworker, anti-sexual violence, women’s and immigrant rights activist for nearly
two decades. She is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago and The Ohio State
University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law. She is currently a 2015 candidate for a
Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
After graduating from law school, Ramírez founded the first legal project in the
United States dedicated to ending, remedying and preventing sexual harassment and other forms of
gender discrimination against farmworker women in Florida. She launched this Project in 2003 with the
support of Florida Legal Services, Inc. and the Florida Bar Foundation through an Equal Justice Works
Fellowship.
In 2006, Ramírez began working with the Southern Poverty Law Center, as director of the national
project Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative. In this role, Ramírez worked until 2012 to
defend the rights of farmworker and other low-wage women. In addition, she created a national
working group to address workplace sexual violence against farmworker women, and she founded The
Bandana Project, a public-awareness campaign.
Ramírez is the co-editor and author of various chapters of the manual Representing Farmworker Women
Who Have Been Sexually Harassed: A Best Practices Manual. Ramírez has also served as an attorney and
supervisor within SPLC’s broader Immigrant Justice Project, advocating for the civil and employment
rights of immigrants and other community members in the Southeastern United States.
In August 2012, Ramírez expanded the reach of our advocacy to the international arena when she
became the Acting Deputy Director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), the first
transnational legal project based in Mexico City with satellite offices in Oaxaca and Baltimore, Maryland.
In addition, Ramírez broadened her domestic work on behalf of migrant women by leading CDM’s binational efforts related to its Proyecto de Mujeres Migrantes (The Migrant Worker Women’s Project).
Through this initiative, Ramírez and her colleagues strived to serve migrant women pre-departure from
their hometowns, during migration and throughout their time working in the United States.
She is a founding member of several groups and alliances advocating for human and farmworker
women’s rights including CounterQuo, and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (The National Farmworker
Women’s Alliance).
Reception and Gran Baile………………………….…………………………………………………………..………….…7:30-10:00
Gilberto the Paz and the Tropix (Live Band)……………………………………………………………………… President A&B
Saturday October 25, 2014
Coffee Break…………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………8:45-9:00
Conference Room 207-208
Session 7……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……….9:00-10:30
Nuestras Historias Importan: Alternative Models for Organizing Immigrant Based Activism by Latina/o
Youth ……………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………………………President C
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Nathalia Ochoa, University of Florida
o Co-Presenters: Genesis Lara, University of Florida
Norma Gallegos, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jannet Arenas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Poster Session: Immigrant Health Issues………………………………………………………………………………..Warrington
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Poster Presenter: Fran Ricardo, Rural Women’s Health Project, Florida
 Poster Title: “Voces de Inmigrantes en Acción: Community Voice in Addressing the
Intersect Between Social Determinants & HIV/AIDS”
Poster Presenter: Miriam Guerrero, Community Outreach Supervisor, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Mensajeros de Salud/ Health Messengers”
Poster Presenter: Angela Bakidis, Rural Women’s Health Project
o Co-Presenters: Maria Granado, Central Healthy Start, Inc. Florida
Bianca Gras, Asian Americans for Equality, New York
Cari Beth Head, Spark Microgrants
 Poster Title: “A Mi Alcance: Action Steps for a Healthy Weight - A Short-Term
Promotor de Salud Campaign in Latino Communities”
Poster Presenter: Diana Viviesecas Vargas, Rural Women’s Health Project
o Co-Presenters: Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project
Angela Bakidis, Rural Women’s Health Project
Francine Ricardo, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Creando Nuestra Salud: Findings from the 2012 Promotora Campaign
Increasing Early Breast Cancer Detection Among Hispanic Immigrant Women”
Poster Presenter: Magda Schmitzberger, Florida Department of Health
o Co-Presenter: Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Evaluating Service Provider’s Capacity to Assist Immigrant Survivors of
Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking”
Immigrant Reception: Inclusion and Exclusion………………………………………………………………………..President C
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Panel Chair: Alan LeBaron, Kennesaw State University
Presenter: Marie Mallet, Harvard University
 Paper Title: “Between Rivalries and Cooperation: Comparative Analysis of Latino
Incorporation in Boston, Miami, and Los Angeles”
Presenter: Miranda Cady Hallet, Otterbein University
o Co-Presenter: Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
 Paper Title: “Borders of the Public: The Role of Service Providers in Framing the
Inclusion and Exclusion of Undocumented Migrants”
Presenter: Breanne Grace, University of South Carolina
o Co-Presenter: Benjamin Roth, University of South Carolina
 Paper Title: “Constructing the Immigrant Safety Net: Formal and Informal Service
Providers in South Carolina”
Presenter: Kathryn Klaas, Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Sociales y Desarrollo (INCEDES)
 Paper Title: “Guaranteeing the Right to Education During the Migration Process:
Perspectives from Origin and Destination Countries in Central America”
Coffee Break………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....10:30-10:45
Conference Room 207-208
Session 8........................................................................................................................…...10:45-12:15
Mobilization and Community Based Organizing………………………….…………………………………………Class Room
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Panel Chair/Presenter: Susan Weishar, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University, New
Orleans
 Paper Title: “How a Community-Based Alternative to Detention Served Detained
Immigrants in New Orleans”
Presenter: Carlos Aleman, Assistant Professor of History, Samford University
 Paper Title: “The Etowah Seven: The Anatomy of a Direct Action”
Presenter: De Ann Pendry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 Paper Title: “Tennessee Immigrant Rights Campaigns: Struggles to Stop 287(g) and
Deportations and to Obtain Tuition Equality and Immigration Reform”
Presenter: Eleanor Petrone, Western Carolina University
 Paper Title: “Transformational Resistance: Community Organizations and Civic
Engagement”
Poster Session: Immigrant Health Issues………………………………………………………………………………...Warrington
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Poster Presenter: Fran Ricardo, Rural Women’s Health Project, Florida
 Poster Title: “Voces de Inmigrantes en Acción: Community Voice in Addressing the
Intersect Between Social Determinants & HIV/AIDS”
Poster Presenter: Miriam Guerrero, Community Outreach Supervisor, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Mensajeros de Salud/ Health Messengers”
Poster Presenter: Angela Bakidis, Rural Women’s Health Project
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Co-Presenters: Maria Granado, Central Healthy Start, Inc. Florida
Bianca Gras, Asian Americans for Equality, New York
Cari Beth Head, Spark Microgrants
 Poster Title: “A Mi Alcance: Action Steps for a Healthy Weight - A Short-Term
Promotor de Salud Campaign in Latino Communities”
Poster Presenter: Diana Viviesecas Vargas, Rural Women’s Health Project
o Co-Presenters: Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project
Angela Bakidis, Rural Women’s Health Project
Francine Ricardo, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Creando Nuestra Salud: Findings from the 2012 Promotora Campaign
Increasing Early Breast Cancer Detection Among Hispanic Immigrant Women”
Poster Presenter: Magda Schmitzberger, Florida Department of Health
o Co-Presenter: Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project
 Poster Title: “Evaluating Service Provider’s Capacity to Assist Immigrant Survivors of
Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking”
Immigration Law………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………President C
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Panel Chair: Fr. Fred Kammer SJ, Loyola University, New Orleans
Presenter: Juan Quevedo, University of Tennessee
 Paper Title: “The War on Immigration: Immigration Enforcement through the
Criminal Justice System”
Presenter: Juan José Bustamante, University of Arkansas
 Paper Title: “La Polimigra: Family Fragmentation as a Consequence of Immigration
Law Police Enforcement”
Presenter: Sindie Castro, DISC Village Inc.
 Paper Title: “U.S. Citizens’ Experience of Immigration Procedures: An Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis”
Luncheon and Discussion of Next Steps…………………………………………….………………………………...12:15-1:30
President A&B