Spring Conference

Citizenship Without Borders: Belonging and Exclusion in Immigrant America

March 16-17, 2006

Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California, Berkeley

Sponsored UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change,
Boalt Hall's Center for Social Justice,
and UC Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research

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The conference will bring together leading scholars, immigrant rights activists and service providers, members of the legal community, and UCB and Boalt Hall faculty and students to evaluate the civic and political participation of immigrants; to share stories about the daily practices of citizenship engaged in and experienced by immigrants; and to consider the role that citizenship status plays and should play in mediating the legal rights and social benefits that immigrants receive in the United States. The conference will provide a forum in which to debate the meaning of citizenship and the logic of entitlement that flows from citizenship status, challenge assumptions about who is and can be a "citizen" and redraw the conceptual boundaries used to define membership in civic and political life.

For more information, contact Christine Trost, Conference Organizer: ctrost@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-7237

Thursday, March 16

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Panel 1: "Navigating Citizenship and the New Border Landscape: Case Studies by Emerging Scholars," Goldberg Room

Speakers:

Els de Graauw,

Political Science, UC Berkeley, ISSC Graduate Fellow

Juan de Lara,

Geography, UC Berkeley, ISSC Graduate Fellow

Francisco Donez,

Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley, ISSC Graduate Fellow

Moderator:

David Minkus,

ISSC Graduate Training Director

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 - 5:30 p.m. The Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice, Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall

"The Geography of Citizenship,"

T. Alexander Aleinikoff,

Dean, Georgetown University Law Center, and former

Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs and General Counsel

(1994-1995) to the INS under Clinton.

Respondent:

Mariana Bustamante,

Public Education Coordinator of the national ACLU

Immigrants’ Rights Project

For a copy of Mariana Bustamante's remarks please click here

Kevin Johnson,

Professor of Law, UC Davis

For a copy of Kevin Johnson's remarks please click here

Moderator:

Leti Volpp,

Professor of Law, Boalt Hall

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Reception, Donor Lobby, Boalt Hall

Friday, March 17

9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks, Goldberg Room

Rachel Moran,

Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law, Director of

the Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley

Mary Louise Frampton,

Director, Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall

9:10 - 10:25 a.m. Panel 2: “The Contemporary Context: Changing Demographics, Immigrant Rights and the Denationalization of Citizenship,” Goldberg Room

Speakers:

Linda Bosniak,

Professor of Law, Rutgers University

Karthick Ramakrishnan,

Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside

Linton Joaquin,

Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center

Moderator:

David Montejano,

Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Panel 3: "Locating 'Alternative' Sites of Citizenship: Work-, School- and Neighborhood- Based Immigrant Activism," Goldberg Room

Speakers:

Jennifer Gordon,

Professor of Law, Fordham University

Eliseo Medina,

SEIU Executive Vice President

Laurie Olsen,

Executive Director, California Tomorrow

Gordon Mar,

Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association

Moderator:

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez,

Professor of Education, UC Berkeley

12:00 - 12:15 p.m. Break

12:15 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch Discussion, Room 140, Boalt Hall

"The Broken Immigration System Can't be Fixed

Without Comprehensive Immigration Reform"

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)

Moderator:

Maria Echaveste,

Lecturer in Residence, Boalt Hall School of Law

1:45 - 2:00 p.m. Break

2:00 - 3:25 p.m. Panel 4: "Expanding the Practices of Citizenship: New and Old Forms of Civic and
Political Engagement among Immigrants at the Local Level," Goldberg Room

Speakers:

Irene Bloemraad,

Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Michael Jones-Correa,

Professor of Government, Cornell University

Sheila Chung,

Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC)

Amagda Perez,

Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney, Immigration Law

Clinic, UC Davis

Moderator:

Taeku Lee,

Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Panel 5: "Citizenship Beyond the Nation-state: Transnational Attachments, Indigenous Struggles and Borderless Politics," Goldberg Room

Speakers:

Louis De Sipio,

Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine

Leoncio Vásquez,

Member, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB)

Isabel Garcia,

Pima County Legal Defender and Co-chair of Derechos

Humanos, Tucson, AZ

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas,

Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Davis

Moderator:

Andres Jimenez,

Director, California Policy Research Institute

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Wine and Cheese Reception, Morrison and Foerster Lounge