Call for Papers
The Immigration Working Group of the CUNY Graduate Center invites
submissions for:
(New) Debates on Belonging: A Graduate Student Conference on
Contemporary Issues in Immigration
Keynote Speaker: Richard Alba
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, October 14, 2011
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), New York, NY
With increasing frequency, questions of belonging have dominated the
news and public debates on immigration: from the recent introduction of
anti-immigrant legislation in many states to the spirited organizing
around the DREAM Act and the controversy sparked by Park51’s proposal
for a Muslim community center near Ground Zero. The prominence of such
issues highlights both the fiercely contested nature of belonging in the
United States as well as how diverse groups - whether veteran or newly
arrived, documented or undocumented, majority or minority, religious or
secular - mobilize and advocate for their claims. While Congress debates
and defers decisions on immigration reform on the national level, the
question of belonging has distinctly regional and local manifestations.
Immigrants and their children are claiming their place in American
society, in its schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. This conference
will bring together graduate students whose own research bear on these
issues.
(New) Debates on Belonging welcomes submissions that explore the many
facets of immigrant belonging, incorporation and boundary drawing.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
? Place/region: communities, new destinations, urban areas
? Policy/activism/public health
? Cross-national and historical comparisons
? Culture, the arts, and food
? Citizenship
? Dimensions of difference: gender, race, sexuality, religion, the body
? Social institutions: labor and the economy, education, family, the
media
? Transnationalism
? The second generation
? Language
Submissions are welcome from graduate students in a variety of
disciplines, including: sociology, political science, history,
geography, anthropology, psychology, education, ethnic and gender
studies, demography, public policy, social welfare, and urban planning.
Please submit an abstract of 250-350 words by Friday, July 15, 2011.
Participants will be asked to submit a 3-5 page summary of the
paper/presentation in the fall. Please visit
www.gc-immigration.org/gcimmigrationconference for more details or click
http://bit.ly/jFf8bl to access the submission form. Any questions may be
directed to: [log in to unmask]
Applicants will be notified of final decisions for participation by the
end of August, 2011.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please send all replies to: [log in to unmask]
Best regards,
Zeynep Selen Artan
Doctoral Student
City University of New York, the Graduate Center
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