2012 ASA Meeting
Program organizer: Silvia Pedraza (Section Chair), University of Michigan
These paper sessions will take place on Sunday, August 19 and Monday, August 20, 2012.
The Roundtables and the Business Meeting will take place on Monday, August 20th.
ASA will release the final schedule on April 30th.
1. Refugees: Comparisons across Nations
Organizer and Presider: Theo Majka (University of Dayton)
Anonymity as a Survival Strategy: How Iraqi Refugees Create Weak Ties in Jordan
Rawan Mazen Arar (University of California - San Diego)
Implications of the Label ‘Refugee’
Bernadette Ludwig (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Refugees in a Mid-Sized Midwestern Urban Area: Circumstantial and Institutional Challenges to Incorporation
Theo J. Majka (University of Dayton) and Linda C. Majka, (University of Dayton)
Responses to Ambiguity: The Case of Iraqi Arabs and Kurds in Two European Cities
Peter Kivisto (Augustana College) and Vanja La Vecchia-Mikkola (University of Helsinki and University of Turku)
Discussant: Silvia Pedraza (University of Michigan)
2. Migrating People, Migrating Culture
Organizer and Presider: Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College and Harvard University)
Homeland Cultures in Urban Community Gardens: Illegality and Spaces of Sanctuary
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California)
How Does Immigration Change Cultural Schemas of Race?
Wendy D. Roth (University of British Columbia)
Returning African Labor Migrants and the Spirit of Capitalism
Michal Pagis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Sabar Galia (Tel Aviv University)
Using Media in Foreign Languages: an Analysis of Cultural Proximity and Cosmopolitanism in Austin, Texas
Cristian Luis Paredes, The University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College and Harvard University)
3. Transnationalization and Development
Organizer and Presider: Robert Courtney Smith (Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Return Migration and Happiness: Income, Aspirations, and Subjective Well-being among Returned Romanian Emigrants
David Bartram (University of Leicester)
The Migrant, Intermediaries, and the State in Bangladeshi migration to Japan and the USA
Hasan Mahmud (University of California – Los Angeles)
The Politics of Ethnic Emergence: Arab Rebirth and Union in Spain
Daniel Alexander Koski-Karell (University of Washington)
Until I go to Thailand: A Culture of Migration among Rural Cambodian Youth
Maryann Bylander (University of Texas - Austin)
Discussant: Robert Courtney Smith (Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center)
4. Immigration and Health
Organizer and Presider: P. Rafael Hernandez-Arias (University of New Mexico)
Understanding Social and Cultural Health Barriers for Women Marriage Migrants in Korea
Hye Jin Kim (University of Chicago) and Sang-lim Lee (IOM Migration Research and Training Center)
Migrant Health in Europe: A Cross-National Analysis of the ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’
Elyas Bakhtiari (Boston University), Sigrun Olafsdottir (Boston University) and Jason Beckfield (Harvard
University)
Acculturation and Barriers to Parenting Self-Efficacy: the Experience of Japanese Immigrant Parents in the United States
Aya Kimura Ida (California State University), Naoko Oyabu-Mathis (Mount Union College) and Rina
Fukushima (California State University)
Investigating Hispanic-Asian Immigrant Inequality in Unmet Medical Need
Stephanie Howe (Pennsylvania State University), Gordon F. De Jong (Pennsylvania State University) and
Deborah Roempke Graefe (Pennsylvania State University)
Discussant: Zulema Valdes (Texas A&M University)
5. Immigrants and Natives
Organizer and Presider: Silvia Domínguez (Northeastern University, Boston)
A Glimpse of the Other Side: Immigrant Service Workers in a Wealthy Neighborhood
Elizabeth Miller (CUNY Graduate Center)
Demographic Change and Urban Transformation: Interactions between Immigrant Business Owners and Customers
Steven Gold (Michigan State University)
From “Jim Crow” to “Juan Crow”: Black-Brown Relations in the New South
Jennifer Anne Meri Jones (Ohio State University)
Immigrants and Natives: Latina Teachers and the Hidden Chicano/Latina Cultural Pedagogy in Multiracial School Workplaces
Glenda Flores (University of California-Irvine)
Discussant: Sid Martinez (Sacramento State University)
Section on International Migration Roundtables Sessions
Organizer and Presider: Pawan Dinghra (Oberlin College and Smithsonian Institution)
1. Trans-nationalism
2. Challenges of Doing Research
3. Dilemmas of Documentation
4. Attitudes and Discourses on Immigration in Asia
5. Refugee Statuses
6. Cultural Attachments and Assimilation
7. Glass Ceiling and Entrepreneurship
8. Language
9. South Asian and Muslim American Identities
10. Socio-Economic Adaptation – 1
11. Socio-Economic Adaptation – 2
12. Immigration Policy and Practices
13. Gender and Immigration
14. Racial Identity Negotiations
15. Attitudes towards Immigrants
16. Politics
17. Everyday Economics
18. Public Expressions of Ethnicity
19. Health and Health Spaces
The Roundtables will be 1 hour in length; followed by the Section’s 1-hour business meeting .
Charlie V. Morgan (charlie.morgan@byu.edu) is currently responsible for the design and maintenance of the International Migration Web Page. Please send e-mail to Charlie if you have any questions or ideas for additions. Thank you!
