Conference: Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas
Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas
A one-day conference at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Friday, March 26, 2010 / 9AM – 6PM
Alexander Library, Pane Room, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The conference aims to examine how increasing transnational migration in the Americas have produced shifting boundaries of citizenship – not only in the US, but perhaps more so in sending countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Suggesting the necessity of a transnational approach to the study of the impact of migration on the institutions and practices of citizenship, this conference seeks to contribute to the ongoing debates about the changing relationships between migrants and states.
PROGRAM
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Panel I: Diasporic and Transnational Citizenship (9:15-11AM)
Moderator: Kathy López, LHCS/History, Rutgers University
Discussant: Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology, Rutgers University
GEORGES FOURON, Africana Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook
The Construction of Citizenship in the Age of Globalization and Transnational Migration
DAVID FITZGERALD, Political Science, UC San Diego:
Citizenship à la Carte: Emigration and the Sovereign State.
ULLA D. BERG, LHCS/Anthropology, Rutgers University
Dissecting “El Quinto Suyo”: Citizenship and Social Class in Peruvian Transnational Migration
NINA SIULC, Legal Studies, UMASS-Amherst
Citizenship and Unfreedom: Paradoxes of Belonging among Criminalized Deportees in the Dominican Republic
JANNA FERGUSON, Sociology, Rutgers University
Transnational Localities: Federalism and the Gendered Politics of Citizenship among Migrants from Central Mexico
Panel II: Transnational Political Formations in the U.S. (11:30AM-1:00PM)
Moderator: Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, LHCS/Anthropology, Rutgers University
Discussant: James DeFelippis, Bloustein, Rutgers University
CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS, Centro, Hunter College, CUNY
The Political Incorporation and Reincorporation of Puerto Rican Return Migrants
ROBYN RODRIGUEZ, Sociology, Rutgers University
Emergent Forms of Asian and Latino Migrant Transnational Solidarities
MARA SIDNEY, Political Science, Rutgers Newark
Linking Transnational Citizenship and Immigrant Integration: The Rutgers Immigrant Infrastructure Map Project
CARLOS DECENA, LHCS/WGS, Rutgers University
Code Swishing
ALYSHIA GÁLVEZ, Lehman College, CUNY
Migrant Citizenship: How Mexican Immigrants In New York Articulate Rights In The Margins Of Immigration Law
Panel III: Transnational New Brunswick (2:00-3:30PM)
Moderator: Daniel Goldstein / Anthropology, Rutgers University
Discussant: Regina Marchi / Communication, Rutgers University
PETER GUARNACCIA / DANIEL GOLDSTEIN / ROCÍO MAGAÑA, Anthropology, Rutgers University:
Transnational Service Learning: Linking Rutgers Students and Mexican Community Members through Participatory Research
MARIANNE MARCHAND, International Studies, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla:
“Rebordering Migrants”? Mexican Transnational Communities Facing the Dual Economic and Security Crises
MARIA ISLAS, Sociology, Rutgers University:
Projectivity and Transnationalism: Practices of Foresight in a Migrant Community
JOSE GONZALEZ, FIOB
Indigenas Mexicanos Migrantes en los Estados Unidos
Summary and final discussion (4:00-5:15PM):
Moderators: Robyn Rodriguez and Ulla D. Berg
CO-SPONSORED BY
Faculty Cluster in Migration, Office for International Programs, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Rutgers Academic Excellence Fund, Department of Sociology.
CONTACTS:
Ulla D. Berg, Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies / Anthropology
Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology
Logistics and Outreach
Christene DeJong
