The workshop schedule for the Spring 2013 semester follows below. All interdisciplinary workshop meetings take place in Barrows 420 from 12:30 - 2pm, unless otherwise specified.

March 1, 2013
Presenter: Brendan Shenahan
Title: Becoming Citizens without the Rights of Citizenship: Marital Expatriation and
Repatriation, 1922-1952.

Presenter: Joanna Doran
Title: Neither Heroes nor Outcasts: Immigrants in an Asset-Building Program for Low-income
Workers.

March 15th
Presenter: Humberto Ortiz/ Respondent: Esther Cho
Title: "We wanna love, we wanna feel loved": Legal Violence on the Romantic Lives of Latina Undocumented Young Women

Presenter: Lindsay Bayham/Respondent: Dani Carrillo
Title: Travel and See: Communication Dynamics and Trust in Migrant Networks

April 12th
Presenter: Christian Phillips/Respondent: Vasanthi Venkatesth
Title: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act's Language Assistance Provisions for Asian Americans

Presenter: Dani Carrillo/Respondent: Paul Bissember
Title: Who Acquires and Who Desires French Nationality? – Evidence from 2008

April 26th
Presenter: Esther Cho/Respondent: Melanie Plasencia
Title: Learning to be Liminally Legal: The Experiences of DACA Beneficiaries

Presenter: Akasemi Newsome/Respondent: Andrej Milivojevic

Past Workshops

In September 2003, Professor Irene Bloemraad (Sociology) established the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop with funding from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. While the Berkeley campus housed numerous individuals with an expertise on immigration and a few area centers with an interest in migrants from a specific region, there was no single forum to bring together scholars of migration and immigrant integration. The Workshop was founded to provide such a venue and to serve as a forum for intense, personalized discussion of members' current research project.

The goals of the workshop are three-fold:

• To provide an interdisciplinary forum for workshop members to get feedback on their immigration-related research projects;
• To serve as a venue for information dissemination among members; and
• To provide a forum for inviting guest speakers to talk about immigration matters to the Berkeley campus and interested community members.

Download the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop's 2009-2010 Annual Report.

About this Web Site


The Workshop's Web site is designed to provide researchers, instructors and interested citizens with substantive content pertaining to immigration issues.  It also supports Workshop activities via a virtual private network for resource sharing and communication.  It is a gateway to other Web resources, with links to Think Tanks, statistics sources, archives, policy and legal sources, and a Webblog that tracks immigration issues in the news. The Web site is supported by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library. To contact the webmaster, please email .