Here is a link to the Ethnoarchaeology/Undocumented Migration Field School I will be directing this summer in southern Arizona.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Arizona Ethnoarchaeology field school
Here is a link to the Ethnoarchaeology/Undocumented Migration Field School I will be directing this summer in southern Arizona.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
La Caminata
If you haven't seen the film La Caminata, I highly recommend it. It is only 15 minutes long and you can stream the entire thing from snagfilms.com.
Below is a film description:
"Seven hours south of the US/Mexican Border lies the small town of Alberto, where the local community, like many pueblos across Mexico, has lost 80 percent of its population to migration into the United States. But Alberto has a plan to revive their community, the creation of a theme-park event - a simulated border crossing, complete with balaclava-clad “coyotes” as guides and “border patrol” that chase “migrants” up and down rough terrain through the night. They call this event the Caminata (translation: journey, hike, trek). The organizers designed the experience as a tool for compassion and consciousness-raising, showing the largely middle-class Mexican tourists who attend the difficulty and dangers faced by those crossing the border. Through an exploration of this unique journey, La Caminata adds a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on immigration: that of Mexicans actively fighting poverty, joblessness, and desolation in their home communities."
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/la_caminata/
Below is a film description:
"Seven hours south of the US/Mexican Border lies the small town of Alberto, where the local community, like many pueblos across Mexico, has lost 80 percent of its population to migration into the United States. But Alberto has a plan to revive their community, the creation of a theme-park event - a simulated border crossing, complete with balaclava-clad “coyotes” as guides and “border patrol” that chase “migrants” up and down rough terrain through the night. They call this event the Caminata (translation: journey, hike, trek). The organizers designed the experience as a tool for compassion and consciousness-raising, showing the largely middle-class Mexican tourists who attend the difficulty and dangers faced by those crossing the border. Through an exploration of this unique journey, La Caminata adds a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on immigration: that of Mexicans actively fighting poverty, joblessness, and desolation in their home communities."
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/la_caminata/
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Mixed Migration Conference--call for papers
The Concept of Mixed Migration: Reflecting on Today’s Migratory Policies, Movements and Paradigms Shifts
Geneva, 8-9 April 2010
A conference jointly organized by the Programme for the Study of Global Migration (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and the Institut d'Ethnologie (Université de Neuchâtel), with the support of the Division for International Protection Services of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
More information:
http://graduateinstitute.ch/globalmigration/NewsEvents/MixedMigration.html
Geneva, 8-9 April 2010
A conference jointly organized by the Programme for the Study of Global Migration (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and the Institut d'Ethnologie (Université de Neuchâtel), with the support of the Division for International Protection Services of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
More information:
http://graduateinstitute.ch/globalmigration/NewsEvents/MixedMigration.html
Conference on Chicana/o literature: May 2010 Leon, Spain
http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/next-conferences/vii-congreso-internacional-de-literatura-chicana
Friday, November 6, 2009
'Sleep Dealer:' exploring border connectedness
Sleep Dealer, a film by Alex Rivera, has won accolades at the Sundance Film Festival. It provides a speculative look at the US-Mexico relationship in the distant future: human-powered automatons filling the U.S. need for bodies to build the American Dream. (With no sleep, there is no dream.) Now available via Netflix. Check out this clip.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Gomez Pena's Pocha Nostra
The significance of the border as a physical, conceptual, spiritual terrain is most evoked by the work of artist Guillermo Gomez Pena and La Pocha Nostra performance troupe. (www.pochanostra.com)
A bite: 'La Pocha Nostra is by nature anti-essentialist and anti-nationalist. We claim an extremely unpopular position in post-9/11 U.S. "No homeland; no fear; no borders; no patriotism; no nation-state; no ideology; no censorship"....Our America is still an open society with porous borders; our America is neither "Red" nor "Blue;" it is brown, black, yellow, pink and transparent. Always.'
A bite: 'La Pocha Nostra is by nature anti-essentialist and anti-nationalist. We claim an extremely unpopular position in post-9/11 U.S. "No homeland; no fear; no borders; no patriotism; no nation-state; no ideology; no censorship"....Our America is still an open society with porous borders; our America is neither "Red" nor "Blue;" it is brown, black, yellow, pink and transparent. Always.'
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Underground Undergrads: Immigrant Students & the DREAM Act
Underground Undergrads: Immigrant Students & the DREAM Act
Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:30 pm, University of Washington, Communications 226
There are hundreds of thousands of students throughout the country who, through no fault of their own, have been relegated to a life in the underground economy. These students are the children of undocumented immigrants. Although they were protected until their 18th birthday – receiving an education, making friends, and in some cases living in the only land they ever knew – now are considered undocumented immigrants themselves. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (the DREAM Act) was introduced in the U.S. Congress March 26, 2009. If enacted, the new immigration bill will provide millions of immigrant children who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have been residing in the United States continuously for at least five years prior to the bill being enacted into law, and who graduate from U.S. high schools the opportunity to earn permanent U.S. residency.
Come to learn about this important civil and human rights campaign that is being led by students throughout the country and how you can get involved.
Kent Wong, Director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA
Matias Ramos, UCLA student leader
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Labor Center, the Race/Knowledge Project with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the School of Social Work.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information call Roberto Gonzales, 206 685-2872 / rggonzal@u.washington.edu
Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:30 pm, University of Washington, Communications 226
There are hundreds of thousands of students throughout the country who, through no fault of their own, have been relegated to a life in the underground economy. These students are the children of undocumented immigrants. Although they were protected until their 18th birthday – receiving an education, making friends, and in some cases living in the only land they ever knew – now are considered undocumented immigrants themselves. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (the DREAM Act) was introduced in the U.S. Congress March 26, 2009. If enacted, the new immigration bill will provide millions of immigrant children who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have been residing in the United States continuously for at least five years prior to the bill being enacted into law, and who graduate from U.S. high schools the opportunity to earn permanent U.S. residency.
Come to learn about this important civil and human rights campaign that is being led by students throughout the country and how you can get involved.
Kent Wong, Director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA
Matias Ramos, UCLA student leader
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Labor Center, the Race/Knowledge Project with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the School of Social Work.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information call Roberto Gonzales, 206 685-2872 / rggonzal@u.washington.edu
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