Marie Provine and Monica Varsanyi (special issue co-editors)

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Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi.  ”Scaled down:  Perspectives on state and local creation and enforcement of immigration law.  Introduction to special issue of Law & Policy.“ (pp. 105-112).

Lina Newton. “Policy innovation or vertical integration?  A view of immigration federalism from the states.” (pp. 113-137)

Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, Doris Marie Provine, and Scott Decker.  ”A multilayered jurisdictional patchwork:  Immigration federalism in the United States.” (pp. 138-158)

Mathew Coleman. “The ‘local’ migration state:  The site-specific devolution of immigration enforcement in the U.S. South.” (pp. 159-190)

Amada Armenta. “From sheriff’s deputies to immigration officers:  Screening immigrant status in a Tennessee jail.” (pp. 191-210).

Rupaleem Bhuyan. “Negotiating citizenship on the frontlines:  How the devolution of Canadian immigration policy shapes service delivery to women fleeing abuse.”  (pp. 211-236).

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Transnational Migration and Human Security: The Migration-Development-Security Nexus

Thanh-Dam Truong and Des Gasper (Eds.) Institute of Social Studies (of Erasmus University Rotterdam), The Hague, The Netherlands

This volume addresses key aspects of human security in transnational migration. The 22 essays cover all levels of migration systems, from families, farms and firms through to global organizations and negotiating forums.

They show how institutional frameworks for cross-border movements of people, finance, and goods have co-evolved with changes in the workings of nation-states. They thereby reveal aspects of power and privilege within ‘international migration’ as a discursive area and at its intersections with the fields of ‘development’, governance and ‘security’. Revisiting presuppositions that have been taken as givens, and exploring their role in shaping rules and institutions that control the movements of people across and within borders, the essays reveal also the mentalities and rationalities that have made up and continue to make up the reality of transnational migration today. A human security perspective can encourage exploratory thinking and provide conceptual space for deeper understandings of ‘human’, ‘movement’ and ‘borders’, to help overcome the limits of conventional analytical and policy dualisms and dichotomies. More on the Springer website.

• Reveals aspects of power and privilege within ‘international migration’ as a discursive area and at its intersections with the fields of ‘development’, governance and ‘security’.
• Shows how institutional frameworks for cross-border movements of people,
  finance, and goods have co-evolved with changes in the workings of nation-states.
• Argues for a human security perspective which encourage exploratory thinking to
  overcome the limits of conventional analysis and policy approaches.

ISBN 978-3-642-12756-4
2011. X, 390 p. (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, Vol. 6 Hardcover
129,95 €
$179.00
SFr. 186.50
£117.00

“vanheteren” <gheteren@xs4all.nl>

Spring has come and your thoughts may be turning to the Law & Society meeting coming up in San Francisco.  For your convenience, we have posted a list of panels sponsored by our CRN, as well as other, relevant panels to the CRN02 theme.

We also want to alert you to a business meeting of the CRN which will be held at 12:30 on Friday, June 3 in one of the meeting rooms – we just don’t know which one yet so please check the programme.  You can grab a sandwich and come to the meeting, which won’t be very long.  But it is important.  We need, of course, to think about how to make our CRN effective and useful for members, and we need to think about rotating leadership roles.  We will also be seeking volunteers to organize a panel involving activists and policy makers for Hawaii.  This idea, which the CRN has dubbed Immigration and Communities, is becoming a tradition in each of the cities where we meet.  It gives us a precious opportunity to hear from the people who focus on immigration and social change on a day to day basis in communities.

See you in San Francisco!

Marie, Leila and Jeff.

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Law and Society Association – 2011 Annual Meeting San Francisco

Thursday June, 2

8:15am to 10:00am

• CRN02 and IRC06 Disciplining Migrants and Migration through Law: Mexico in the 20th Century (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration and IRC06 Citizenship and Migration) 1101

• Immigrants and Globalization 1111

• In the Shadows of the Community: Legal Barriers to Full and Equal Membership in the American Community 1124

• Rethinking the Normative Grounds of the Rights of Noncitizens 1125

10:15am to 12:00pm

• CRN02 Roundtable–Government, Community, and Labor Perspectives on Immigrant Rights in San Francisco (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 1201

• Immigrants at Home and Abroad 1216

12:30pm to 2:15pm

• Refugees at the Margins 1326

• CRN02 and IRC06 Beyond Apartheid: From Liminal Legality to Nationality and Equal Rights in Israel-Palestine (Sponsored by CRN02 and IRC06 Citizenship and Migration) 1301

2:30pm to 4:15pm

• CRN02 and IRC06 Roundtable–Human Security in the Context of Migration: Perspectives from the Field (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration and IRC06 Citizenship and Migration) 1401

4:30pm to 6:15pm

• Plenary 2–Questioning Nation, Interrogating Status: Immigration, Colonialism, and Criminality 1502

• Plenary 3–War, Terror, and Migration: Complications and Consequence 1503

Friday June, 3

8:15am to 10:00am

• CRN02 Navigating Immigration Restrictions and Labor Rights: Barriers and Opportunities for Claims-Making (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 2101

• Roundtable–Metaphors of Exclusion: Property and the Undocumented 2111

• The Nation and Its Others 2127

10:15am to 12:00pm

• CRN02 Effects of Crimmigration on the Lives of Unauthorized Immigrants, US and Abroad (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 2201

• The Local Is Global: On the Ripple Effects of Isolated Immigration Regulation 2219

12:30pm to 2:15pm

• Constructing and Dissolving Boundaries: Federalism and Distribution of Powers across Scales 2314

2:30pm to 4:15pm

• CRN02 Gangs, Lies, Exiles, and Dr. Who: The Role of Time in Crime and Migration (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 2402

4:30pm to 6:15pm

• Roundtable–On the Record: Archival Practices in Indigenous and Immigrant Advocacy 2512

• Comparative Perspectives on Access to Legal Aid Services for Refugees and Other Indigent Claimants 2516

• Who Are “We the People”? 2513

Saturday June, 4

8:15am to 10:00am

• CRN02 The Crimmigration Paradigm: Immigration, Crime, and Access to Law and Justice (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 3101

• Migrants and the Law in the European Union 3117

• Immigrants and Institutions 3119

10:15am to 12:00pm

• CRN02 Film Screening: How Democracy Works Now (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 3201

2:30pm to 4:15pm

• CRN02 Comparative Perspectives on Protective Status in Immigration Law (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 3401

• Women and Immigrants Mobilize the Law 3418

• The Difference Being Undocumented Makes 3427

4:30pm to 6:15pm

• CRN02 The Bureaucratic and Jurisprudence Dynamics of Immigrant Worker Rights (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration) 3501

• Work in Progress Papers–13 3540.8

Sunday June, 5

8:15am to 10:00am

• CRN02 Temporary Lives: The Social Implications of Liminal Legal Status (Sponsored by CRN02 Citizenship and Immigration] 4101

• The Power/Knowledge of Immigrant Illegalization, Criminalization, and Deportation Regimes 4111

This year we have sought particularly to bring new perspectives to the fore, with some members forming themselves as an International Research Collaborative (IRC). The questions arising from B and C countries, we believe, deserve more attention. How, for example, does immigration look to observers from areas where the migration traffic is heavy? To learn more this IRC has invited two experts from Tapachula, Mexico (on the border with Guatemala), Dr. Martha Luz Rojas, an expert on the situation of Guatemalan women, and Luis Perdomo, Vice-Consul of El Salvador. A third participant is Jules Mastaki is coming from Democratic Republic of Congo. CRN members have also developed other panels featuring non US perspectives that should be of broad interest, such as one Kif Adams has put together on historical approaches to immigration/citizenship, Jeff Handmaker and George Bisharat’s panel on citizenship and nationality issues in Israel-Palestine and one that John Park has helped to organize that will be co-sponsored by the East Asia CRN. The plan of the IRC is to produce a collection of coauthored pieces, each bringing together a scholar from a low-income country with an American academic coauthor. At the 2012 Hawaii meeting, our IRC will sponsor panels organized along regional and thematic lines and featuring multiple sets of coauthors.

The CRN on Citizenship and Migration maintains a web page with a list of members and their interests as well as archives and upcoming events. We urge members to send updates on their research and activities and to coordinate panels through email exchanges and our listserv.

If you are interested in joining the List Serve, please send an email to Jeff Handmaker. Our current co-organizers are Jeff, Leila Kawar and Doris Marie Provine.

Marie.

presents:

THE ANN LUCAS LECTURE SERIES IN LAW & JUSTICE

Megan Comfort, “Doint Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison” (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Thursday, December 9, 2010
4:00pm-6:00pm
SJSU Campus
Umunhum Room (Student Union, 3rd floor)

DISCUSSANTS:

Nancy E. Stoller, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mary Louise Frampton, University of California, Berkeley
Tamara Spira, University of California, Davis

ABOUT THE BOOK:

By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America’s massive prison system, Comfort’s book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Megan Comfort is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF and a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include HIV prevention, HIV risk behaviors, incarceration, women, race, poverty, and health disparities.

Proposals sought for a panel to be submitted to the Law and Society Association for the 2011 annual meeting in San Francisco, CA on June 2-5.  The panel’s theme is the social impact of temporary immigration status categories, broadly understood.  The organizer welcomes proposals from faculty at all stages of their career, graduate students, activists and organizers, and independent scholars.

Temporary legal status represents a liminal space in the law, suspending those who hold such a status to a category “in-between” more fixed social and legal categories.  Such liminality both emerges from and contributes to forms of Othering and exclusion, while also reflecting ambiguities and contradictions in the social and legal definitions of belonging in space.  This panel will bring together research and commentary on the condition of legal liminality specifically relating to temporary immigration status.  Papers should address a particular form (or forms) of legal status while exploring the broader social implications of the statutory category—beyond this unifying theme, panelists may approach the topic from diverse disciplinary perspectives and address various cases from any legal system worldwide.

The panel aims to bring together writers with multiple approaches studying varied social contexts, but some of the common questions addressed by panelists may include:

• The experience of “temporariness” in everyday life

• The relationship between temporary legal status, labor management strategies, labor rights claims, and labor market dynamics

• The impact of legal temporariness on immigrants’ cultural and national identities and/or the elaboration of transnational identities and practices

• Connections between temporary immigration status and other categories of social status and analysis such as class, gender, and race

• The contrast between statutory immigration law (ambiguous and complex) and popular conceptions of the dichotomy between “legal” and “illegal” immigrants (absolute)

• The particular historical and political forces that shape the emergence of certain temporary status programs and categories

Proposals should include a presentation title, a brief summary of the work to be presented (400 words maximum), the author’s name, and institutional affiliation where applicable.  Send proposals directly to Miranda Cady Hallett, mhallett@otterbein.edu, by November 20, 2010.  The organizer will contact accepted panelists by November 30th.  Submitting a proposal for this panel indicates that you are interested in attending the LSA 2011 conference, and wish to present as part of this panel.  All accepted panelists will need to submit their individual proposal and link it to the panel proposal by December 8, 2010.

p.s. Feel free to distribute this CFP widely!  Thanks for your interest!

Miranda Cady Hallett, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
222 Towers Hall
Otterbein University
1 South Grove Street
Westerville, OH 43081

614-607-0357

If you are planning a paper or panel for the Law & Society meeting in San Francisco, you may want to take advantage of our CRN list serv and web site to find people with similar work in progress.  Forming a panel is a good way to get relevant and helpful feedback.  There are two options.  You can send a message to the Citizenship and Migration CRN listserv by using this address: crn02_citizenmig-l@eur.nl.  (The address I used to reach you.)

Or you may want to check out the member profiles for a good match with someone at this address.

In either event, please do reference our CRN  (CRN 2: Citizenship and Migration) in your final proposal – it will help the program committee avoid setting sessions at competing times.

As immigration issues heat up locally, nationally, and internationally, our work becomes more and more important and relevant to public policy and justice.  Hope to see you at LSA.  And feel free to be in touch with any of us.

Best wishes — Marie, Jeff and Leila (CRN Co-ordinators).

presents:

THE ANN LUCAS LECTURE SERIES IN LAW & JUSTICE

Anthony M. Platt, “The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency”

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
4:00pm-6:00pm
Engineering room 189, SJSU

DISCUSSANTS:

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Associate Professor, Sacramento State University
Barry Krisberg, Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Geoff Ward, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of The Child Savers features a new essay by Anthony M. Platt that highlights recent directions in the field, as well as a critique of his original text. Focusing on social reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Platt’s principal argument is that the “child savers” movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents. This expanded edition provides a renewed and distinguished contribution by placing it in historical context through insightful commentaries from cross-disciplinary academics, along with an essay by Miroslava Chávez-García examining how Platt’s influential study has impacted many of the central arguments social scientists and historians face today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Anthony M. Platt is a professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of several books on American history, social policy, and race relations.