Immigration and Youth Violence

The deportation of immigrants who committed crimes as young adults is a big issue, of course. Here’s an interesting presentation that is very relevant to the topic:

The Institute for the Study of Social Change and the Center on Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention present:
ISSC Graduate Fellows Program Working Paper Presentations:

Immigrant Youth and Institutions:
Cultural Contexts of Agency and Illegality
Friday, April 25
12:00 – 1:30 pm
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste), Berkeley, CA

Speakers:

Vincent Chong, M.D./M.S. Student, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program & ISSC Youth Violence Prevention Fellow, UC Berkeley: “Negotiating with Agency: Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Violence and Resilience in Young Southeast Asian Men”

Carmen Martínez-Calderón, Ph.D. Student in the Graduate School of Education & ISSC Graduate Fellow, UC Berkeley: “Out of the Shadows: Undocumented Latino College Students”

with Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, as respondent
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Vincent Chong is an M.D./M.S. Student, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program & ISSC Youth Violence Prevention Fellow, UC Berkeley. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, Chong went on to complete his B.A. in ethnic studies from Brown University.  Before enrolling in medical school, Chong worked as a community health worker and reproductive health counselor at Asian Health Services in Oakland Chinatown.  His current research is focused on the use of culture in medical and public health discourses on Southeast Asian youth violence and the use of violence in the construction of masculinities.

Carmen Martínez-Calderón is a Ph.D. Student in the Graduate School of Education & ISSC Graduate Fellow, UC Berkeley. Martínez-Calderón, a native of the state of Michoacan in Mexico, immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight without knowing a word of English.  She went on to receive a double B.A. in Sociology and Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.  Martínez-Calderón is a first generation college student and a Gates Millennium Scholar. Her research project is an ethnographic inquiry into the lives of “undocumented” students in higher education.  It explores the reasons why these students opt to leave their state of “social invisibility” to participate in one of society’s major social structures – higher education – and traces what happens to them upon completion of their degrees.  By focusing on the social structure of higher education she hopes to illuminate linkages between education, social stratification, and inequality.
Jonathan Simon is Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. His scholarship concerns the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies, insurance and other contemporary practices of governing risk, and the intellectual history of law and the social sciences. Simon serves as faculty co-chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. Simon is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (with Austin Sarat, 2003). His most recent book is, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007). Simon also serves as co-editor of Punishment & Society and associate editor of Law & Society Review. Simon is the Principal Investigator of “Youth Violence and Neighborhood Change: New Immigrants in Oakland, California,” a new research project of the Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention.
For more information contact Usree Bhattacharya at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, (510) 642-0813; or email ubhattacharya@berkeley.edu .   

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