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The 18th meeting of the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium (PRIEC)

May 7, 2010

The Institute on the Politics of Inequality, Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (InsPIRES)
at Stanford University, Palo Alto CA

Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

9:00-9:30 Informal Gathering

9:30-9:45 Welcome and Introductions

9:45-10:50 Theories of Immigration and Racial Formation

“Race, /Ressentiment/, and Immigrants in Relation to National Identity”
Diego Von Vacano, Political Science, Texas A&M University

“Protests, Politics, and Politicians: Exploring the Determinants of American Latino Identity”
Ali Valenzuela, Political Science, Stanford University

“Developing a Theory of Racialized National Identity Formation”
Jane Yamashiro, American Cultures, Loyola Marymount University

11:00-12:30 Comparative Institutional Responses to Immigration

“The Nation-State and Immigrant Socio-economic Incorporation,”
Tristan Ivory, Sociology, Stanford University

“Woking for the Clampdown: Congressional (In)Action on Immigration”
Bradford S. Jones and Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Political Science, University of California, Davis

“Going Local: The New Politics of Immigration in the US”
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Political Science, University of California, Riverside

“The Machinery of Immigration Control, Explaining Deportations Across Immigrant-Receiving Democracies”
Tom Wong, Political Science, University of California, Riverside

12:30-1:00 LUNCH

1:00-2:30 Political And Policy Consequences of a Multi-Racial Society

“Whites’ Stereotypes of Asian and Latino Immigrants and Attitudes on Immigration Policy,”
Jane Junn, Political Science, University of Southern California and Natalie Masuoka, Political Science, Tufts University

“Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic Attitudes Toward Health Care Reform Policy”
Jillian A Medeiros and Gabriel R. Sanchez, Political Science and RWJF Center, University of New Mexico

“Cross-Cutting Ties and Differential Recruitment: Mexican-American Protest-Participation and Social Ties to Whites”
Wayne Santoro and Stacy Keogh, Sociology, University of New Mexico

“The Legislative Consequences of the Voting Rights Act”
Will Terry, Political Science, University of Oregon, and Post-Doc, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton

2:30-2:45 BREAK

2:45-4:15  Dimensions of Immigrant Advocacy and Socio-Political Incorporation

“New Civil Rights: Politics and Strategies of Rights Expansion for Post-1965 Immigrants”
Ming Hsu Chen, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley

“Trapped at the Bottom: Racialized and Gendered Labor Queues in New Immigrant Destinations”
Laura Lopez-Sanders, Sociology, Stanford University

“Local Public Interest Journalism: Spanish versus English Language Coverage of the 2008 Election”
Kim Nalder, Government, California State University, Sacramento

“Mexican-American, Latino, and Latin American Organizations of San Francisco’s Mission District in the Migratory Reform Debate in the US”
Paola Suarez Avila, History, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and IGS, Berkeley

4:15-4:30 BREAK

4:30-6:00 Political Behavior of the American Minority Electorate

“Forever Non-Voters? Explaining the Paradox of Asian American Under-Participation in Electoral Politics”
Naomi Hsu, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

“The Customer is Always Right: Ethnicity, Race and Political Party Perceptions”
Sylvia Manzano, Political Science, Texas A&M University

“The Impact and Robustness of Immigrants’ Pre-Immigration Participation on Immigrants’ Participation in the US”
Javier Rodriguez and Mark Sawyer, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

“A Concept of Alienation for Marginalized Groups”
Chris Towler, Political Science, University of Washington

6:00-6:30 Transport to Gary Segura’s Home

6:30-till the wine and beer run dry, Dinner and socializing