Panels Organized by the Latino Studies Section--Montreal, Sept. 2007

Mari Castaneda and Aldo Lauria Santiago have organized four panels for the next meeting of the Latino Studies Section of LASA. We encourage you to attend these panels as well as the reception and book exhibit we are planning for the meeting. We also encourage you to rejoin the Section by paying your dues when you register for your membership pre-LASA.

  1. Producing Citizenship, Identity and the Tales of Immigration: Cultural Flows and Media Forms in the Construction of Latinidad [Thursday 12:00 - 1:45 pm Room TBA]

    Catherine Benamou, Migration and Media Enfranchisement -- Tales from Latina/o Detroit

    Ines Casillas, “Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote:” U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Immigration Politics

    Maria Elena Cepeda, Musical Imagi-Nations: “Nuestro Himno” and the Boundaries of the (Trans)National

    Yajaira Padilla, Detecting the Unseen: US Central American Identity in a 'New Latino South

    Emma Garcia, Consuming Identities: The Rise of Chica Lit in the Mainstream Imaginary

    Katynka Martinez, Playing the LA Video Game: Los Santos Vagos, Duke Nukem, and Pacman in MacArthur Park."

    Discussant: Mari Castaneda, University of Massachusetts

  2. De-Coding Racialized Gender in the Immigrants’ Rights Marches [Friday 4:00 - 5:45 pm, Room TBA]

    Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Todos Somos Elvira: The Gendered Subtext of Immigration and Racialization

    Frances Aparicio, The role of media in the May 1st March for Immigration in Chicago

    Otto Santa Ana, A May To Remember: Depictions of Immigrants during the 2006 Policy Debate in Print media

    Maria Eva Valle, Mujeres en Lucha—Creando Cambio y Solidiaridad

    Isabel Molina, Gendering the Immigration Debate: General-Market Media Coverage of the Immigration Rights Movement

    Gilberto Rosas, The Thickening Borderlands: Diffused Exceptionality and “Immigrant” Social Struggles during the “War on Terror”

    Discussant: Patricia Zavella, University of California--Santa Cruz

  3. Latino Immigrant Movements: Citizenship or Labor Rights? [Friday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Room TBA]

    Susanne Jonas, The Dynamics of Transregional Political Advocacy Networks for Guatemalan and Salvadoran Migrant Rights

    Alejandra Castañeda Gomez del Campo, Excluded Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States

    Deirdre Guthrie, Borderwork and Maintenance in the Dominican-Global Network: The Politics of “Flow”

    Annabelle Conroy, Voter Choice and Voter Turnout Among Latino Immigrants

    Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Marching for Immigrant Rights:  The Immigrant Rights Mobilizations in Chicago

    Discussant: Aldo Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University--New Brunswick/Piscataway

  4. Latin American and Caribbean Immigrant Communities in Canada [Wednesday 2:00 - 3:45 pm Room TBA]

    Maria Cristina Garcia, Refuge in Canada: the Cuban and Salvadoran Experiences"

    Patricia Diaz, The Forced Migration of Colombian Refugees in London, Ontario: Memory and Fear in their community building

    Patricia Landolt, Latinoamericanos, Hispanics or Latinos?:  Migration Histories, Trans-National Projects & Identity Construction in Canada

    Lorena Gajardo, The Construction of Latina/o Identity in Canada

    Discussant: Teresa Vazquez

  5. Please join us at the Business Meeting BEFORE our Reception/Awards/Book Exhibit Event!!! We need your participation to develop the section's profile and work!

    MTG 030 Latina/o Studies Section - Business Meeting

    Hochelaga 5 - Fairmont / Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 pm