State & Local Immigration Policy Workshop
UC San Diego is hosting an important workshop related to the rash of local immigration policy proposals and legislation.
State and Local Immigration Policy in the U.S.: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Friday, May 9, 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building
Conference Room 115, First Floor
Governing immigration has long been the responsibility of the federal government in the United States. However, in the context of “new gateway” immigrant settlement, growing undocumented immigrant populations, post-9/11 security concerns, and Congressional deadlock on comprehensive immigration reform, an increasing number of cities and states across the U.S. are engaging with immigration- and immigrant-related policy formulation and enforcement at the local level. Policies have ranged across the spectrum: from cities declaring themselves “sanctuaries” for undocumented residents, to cities in which police are partnering with the federal government to do local immigration enforcement; from states that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, to states that seek to revoke the business licenses of employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers.
In this one-day interdisciplinary workshop, conference participants will engage with multiple themes concerning the recent explosion of local and state immigration policy activism. Themes addressed will include (1) immigration policy and enforcement in the context of federalism, particularly the current devolution of immigration policing powers by the federal government to cities and states; (2) the rapid and recent emergence of grassroots “immigration” policies pursued by cities, counties, and states; (3) the political and legal tensions that arise between cities, states, and the federal government in this changing immigration policy and enforcement landscape; and (4) the impacts of this rapidly shifting policy context on local communities and immigrant incorporation.
Monica Varsanyi, Assistant Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, monica.varsanyi@asu.edu (organizer-chair)
Marisa Abrajano, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UC-San Diego, mabrajano@ucsd.edu
Muzaffar Chishti, Director, Migration Policy Institute at NYU School of Law, muzaffar.chishti@nyu.edu
Jill Esbenshade, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, San Diego State University, jesbensh@sdsu.edu
Owen Furuseth, Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, ojfuruse@uncc.edu
Jessica Halpern-Finnerty, Research Associate, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, jfinnert@cows.org
Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego, tjimenez@ucsd.edu
April Linton, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego, aplinton@ucsd.edu
Doris Marie Provine, Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University (Fulbright Scholar, 2007-8, Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte, Mexico City), marie.provine@asu.edu
Karthick Ramakrishan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UC-Riverside, mailto:karthick@ucr.edu
Hinda Seif, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Illinois, Springfield, hseif2@uis.edu
Heather Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, heatsmit@uncc.edu
Teresa Vázquez, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Cal State Northridge, tere@csun.edu
Michele Waslin, Senior Policy Analyst, Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation, mwaslin@ailf.org
These seminars are open to all members of the UCSD community, as well as faculty and students from other universities and the general public. For directions to CCIS, visit our website. Parking permits can be purchased at the information booth on North Point Drive (north end of campus). Visitors may also use metered parking spaces (max. 2 hours) in the North side parking lot. Papers previously presented at CCIS seminars can also be downloaded from our website under “Working Papers.” For further information, please contact Ana Minvielle (E-mail: aminvielle@ucsd.edu, Tel#: 858-822-4447).
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
9500 Gilman Drive
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0548
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