UCLA event: Migration, Work and Health in Times of Economic Crisis

May 15th, 2009 by admin | Posted in Announcement |

The Migration Study Group, the Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute are pleased to present:

Migration, Work and Health in Times of Economic Crisis: preliminary findings of a study of migrant women in Hermosillo and Los Angeles

Jane R. Rubin-Kurtzman, CCPR, UCLA
Friday, May 15, 12-1:30, 279 Haines Hall

The first part of the presentation will describe a conceptual framework that considers the relationship between the multiple dimensions of Mexican women’s work and the process of women’s health, illness, care and attention. The presentation then will discuss the application of the framework to a comparative study of migrant working mothers in Hermosillo and Los Angeles and will conclude with some remarks about the implications of the research in the current period of economic crisis.

Other events:

Friday, May 29: All Day Workshop on the Migration Industry
(10383 Bunche Hall).

Papers by David Kyle, Sociology, UC Davis; Ivan Light, Sociology, UCLA; David Spener, Sociology, Trinity University; Alisa Garni, Sociology, Kansas State University; David Griffith, Anthropology, Eastern Carolina University; Kristel Acacio, Sociology, UC Berkeley; Kenneth Guest, Anthropology, Baruch College-CUNY; Efrén Sandoval, UANL (Mexico); Anthony Ocampo, Sociology, UCLA; Rocio Rosales, Sociology, UCLA; Ruben Hernández-León, Sociology, UCLA. Discussants: Abel Valenzuela, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA; Roger Waldinger, Sociology, UCLA.

Thanks to support from: the Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series in the Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Education and Information Science; School of Law; Center for Mexican Studies; Latin American Institute; Chicano Studies Research Center; Center for the Study of Urban Poverty; Division of Social Sciences; Faculty Diversity Initiative; Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Department of Asian American Studies. The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.