The 26th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
Texas A&M University
Friday, November 11, 2011
Co-sponsored by The Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance
12:30 – 1:50 Panel 1
Annie Franco, UT Pan Am., “Context & Contact in the Immigration Debate.”
Jamie Smart, Texas A&M, “Latino Party Id: Bayesian Model Averaging”
Karam Dana, Harvard University, “Islam and Mosques in America: Ten Years After 9/11”
1:50 Refreshments, Announcements
2:00 – 3:30 Panel 2: Phd Candidates on the Job Market
Carlos Cuellar, Rice University, “Latino Representation in U.S. Mayoralties”
Ngoc Phan, Rice University, “Mad as Hell: Anger and Mobilization”
Jason Morin, U New Mexico, “The Role of Claimants’ Characteristics in the Voting Behavior of African American Latino Judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.”
3:30 Refreshments, Announcements: New REP Data in Opinion, Behavior, and Public Management
- National Asian American Survey: Karthick Ramakrishnan and Taeku Lee
- Latino Decisions/ Univision 2012 Election Poll: Gabe Sanchez, Gary Segura, Matt Barreto
- PERG, Public Health Project, Texas Education Excellence Project, Ken Meier
4:00 – 5:30 Panel 3
Vickie Ybarra, U New Mexico, “State Participation in Federal Health Policy: Prenatal Care for Immigrant Women.”
Betsy Cooper, UW Seattle, “Conspiracy, Groupness and Political (Dis)Incorporation”
Eric McDaniel and L. Mathew Vandenbroek, UT Austin, “The Angry Politician:Are Black Politicians Punished for Showing Emotions?”
Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside, “Race, Illegality, and Public Opinion on Immigration.”
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The 25th meeting of the
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
University of Southern California
Friday, October 14, 2011—12:00 pm-7:30 pm
Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 450 (The Forum)
Co-sponsored by:
The Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration Department of Political Science Department of Sociology
12:30-1:00: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (USC) [sotelo@usc.edu] and Jose Miguel Ruiz (USC), “Illegality and Spaces of Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland-making in Urban Community Gardens”
1:00-1:30: Leland Saito (USC) [lsaito@usc.edu] & Jonathan Truong (USC) [truong.jon@gmail.com] (USC), “The L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement in an Era of Neoliberalism”
1:30-2:00: Antonio Mendez (USC) [antonio.mendez34@yahoo.com], “Who represents the poor? Latino identity-based organizations.”
2:00-2:30: Joel Fetzer (Pepperdine University) [joel.fetzer@pepperdine.edu], “Racism without Racial Difference: Public Attitudes toward Irish Travellers/an Lucht Siúil in the Republic of Ireland”
2:30-3:00: Break
3:00-3:30: Matt Barreto (University of Washington) [mbarreto@washington.edu] & Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa) [caroline-tolbert@uiowa.edu] Active Participant Framing and Frame Rejection: The case of Barack Obama as Black, White, Muslim and Christian
3:30-4:00: Lydia Lundgren (University of California, San Diego) [llundgre@ucsd.edu] & Marisa Abrajano (UCSD) [mabrajano@ucsd.edu], “Growing Up Angry: How Landmark Immigration Events Affect Public Opinion”
4:00-4:30: Thomas Hayes (University of California, Riverside) [thayes002@gmail.com], “Responsiveness in an Era of Inequality: The Case of the U.S. Senate”
4:30-5:00: D. Xavier Medina Vidal (UC Riverside) [dxmedina@gmail.com], “The Effects of the Spanish-language Media Environment on Hispanic Political Knowledge”
5:00-7:30: New Book Reception & Dinner
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The 24th meeting of the
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
UC Santa Barbara
July 8, 2011
Location: The IHC McCune Conference Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Rm 6020, UCSB
12:05-12:20 Welcome Remarks John Woolley (Political Science Professor and Chair), Howard Winant (UCCNRS Director, Sociology Professor), Pei-te Lien (PRIEC Coordinator at UCSB, Political Science Professor and Graduate Advisor)
12:20-12:50 “Indian-Americans and Flight from Politics after 9/11 – An Existential Analysis of Identity Politics in America in the Age of Terror” S. Jovian Radheshwar (UC Santa Barbara)
12:50-1:20 “Get Out the Early Vote: Minority Use of Convenience Voting in the 2008 Election” Neil Chaturvedi (UC Irvine)
1:20-1:50 “Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and the School-Based Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrant Parents” Veronica Terriquez (University of Southern California, Sociology)
1:50-2:10 Coffee Break
2:10-2:40 “Descriptive Representation, Political Efficacy, and Trust in the 2008 Presidential Election” Derek Fowler, Jennifer Merolla, and Abbylin Sellers (Claremont Graduate University)
2:40-3:10 “Local Places, Open Spaces: Latinos, Substantive Citizenship, and the Role of Race Neutrality” Katie Ostrander (UC Santa Barbara)
3:10-3:40 "Politica and Politics: Country of Origin Political Engagement and Adult Political Socialization of Latino Immigrants” Marcela García-Castañon (University of Washington)
3:40-3:55 Coffee Break
3:55-4:25 “The Difference Race and Ethnicity Makes: Analysis of Policy Preferences of Women in US Congress” Nicole G. Filler (UC Santa Barbara)
4:25-5:00 “Strangers on the Island: Ethno-partisanship and Taiwanese Attitudes Toward Immigrants” Megan Pillar and Joel Fetzer (Pepperdine University) “The Causes of Emigration from Singapore: How much is still Political?” Brandon Millan and Joel S. Fetzer (Pepperdine University)
5:00-5:30 “A Preview of the National Asian American Survey, 2008”
Jane Junn (University of Southern California), Taeku Lee (UC Berkeley), S. Karthick Ramakrishan (UC Riverside), Janelle Wong (University of Southern California)
This event is hosted by the UCSB Department of Political Science and co-sponsored by the UC Center for New Racial Studies, Asian American Studies Department, Chicana/o Studies Department, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Multicultural Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The 23rd meeting of PRIEC
Friday, May 6, 2011
AGR Hall, Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center
UC Davis
9:00-9:10am
Welcome/Introductory Remarks, Pastries/Bagels/Coffee
9:10-10:25
Panel 1: Stereotyping, Discrimination, and Socio-Political Judgment
“The hidden costs of multiculturalism: Can celebrating our differences increase stereotyping?”
Courtney Soderberg, Department of Psychology, UC-Davis
“Contextual Influences on the Political Incorporation of Asians: Evidence from the Bay Area"
Loan Le, Social Sciences in Practice Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of Political Science
"Too Many Immigrants?: The Consequences of Foreign-Born Population Innumeracy"
Daniel Herda, Department of Sociology, UC-Davis
“Cheapened Citizenship: Hispanics, Immigration, and Social Policy Formation”
Hana Brown, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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10:40-11:55
Panel 2: Political Participation and Mobilization
“The Pursuit of Victory and Incorporation: Elite Strategy, Group Pressure, and Cross Racial Mobilization”
Loren Collingwood, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
“Legalization and Variation in the Strength of Language Rights”
Ming Hsu Chen, Visiting Scholar, George Washington Law School
“Differing Costs of Voting and Race Identity in Los Angeles During the 2010 Midterm Election”
Emiliana Patlan, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Social Connectedness, Community Interaction and the Political Participation of United States Immigrants”
Wenlin Liu, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
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11:55-12:25
LUNCH BREAK
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12:30-2:00
Panel 3: Policy Responses to Immigration
“Reexamining Immigrants as Threats: Analyzing Local and State Legislative Responses to Newcomers”
Dina Okamoto, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
“Exploring Sub-National Immigration Policy in the United States”
Michael Rivera, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
“Driving While Brown in a Secure Community”
Aarti Kohli, Director of Immigration Policy, Warren Institute, Berkeley Law
“Public Opinion and Position-Taking on Immigration”
Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis
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2:05-3:00
Roundtable on Immigration Policy, Enforcement and Opinion
Panelists:
Rudy Espino, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
Deep Gulasekaram,, Santa Clara University School of Law
Kevin Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California Davis School of Law
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
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3:10-4:35
Panel 4: Intergroup Relations, Assimilation and the Context of Race/Ethnicity
"A Re-Evaluation of Racial Distancing"
Rudy Espino, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
Rafael A. Jimeno, Diane D. Blair Professor of Latino Studies,, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
“Shades of White: How High-Skilled Immigration Shapes What it Means to be White”
Tomás R. Jiménez, Department of Sociology, Stanford University Adam L. Horowitz, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
“Undocumented, Unafraid & Unapologetic: Immigrant Youth Challenge Boundaries of Citizenship”
Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
“Two Paths to Justice: Framing and Strategizing Immigrant Labor Rights in San Jose and Houston”, Shannon Gleeson, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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4:45-6:00
Panel 5: Public Opinion: REP and LGBT Issues
“Gay Rights and Legislative Wrongs: Representation of Gays and Lesbians”
Benjamin G. Bishin, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Charles Anthony Smith, Department of Political Science, Univeristy of California, Irvine
“Moral Disgust or Religious Conviction: Opposition to Gay Rights in America”
Rachel M. Stein, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Ali A. Valenzuela, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
“Con La Ayuda De Dios, Los Latinos Participan: Religiosity and Civic Engagement in Latino Populations”
Sergio Garcia, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Kiku Huckle, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
“The Undocumented Threat: Beliefs, Policy Preferences and the Politics of Immigration”
Benjamin Gonzalez, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
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Winter 2011 The 22nd Meeting of PRIEC
UCLA
Friday, February 25, 2011
12:00-6:00 PM UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room 480 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
12:00-12:10pm Welcome remarks
Lorrie Frasure Yokley (UCLA, Political Science) & Roger Waldinger (UCLA, Sociology)
12:10-1:00
Immigration Policy and Politics Roundtable
Panelists: Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Law), Kent Wong (UCLA, Labor Center), Angelica Salas (CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, LA)
1:00-1:30
“The Effects of Pre-Migration Factors on Host Country Voting”
Daniel Lim (UCLA, Political Science)
1:30-2:00
“Mexican Migrant Transnationalism and Political Engagement in the United States: A Subnational Analysis”
Adrián Félix (University of Florida, Latin American Studies)
2:00-2:30 “Who Supports the DREAM Act and a Path to Citizenship? Latino, Asian American and White Voter Sentiment in California, 2010.”
Jane Junn, Justin Berry and Michel Martinez (USC, Political Science)
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:15 “We Are Church: Explaining Contestation Within the Catholic Church”
Luisa L. Heredia (Harvard University, Sociology)
3:15-3:45 “Sin Papeles: What’s at Stake in the Undocumented Immigration Policy Debates?”
Ron Schmidt (California State Long Beach, Political Science)
3:45-4:15 “What Part of Illegal Don't You Understand?: Bureaucracy and Civil Society In The Shaping of Illegality”
Edwin Ackerman (Berkeley, Sociology)
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:00 “Blurring Boundaries: Latino Racialization in Orange County”
Celia Lacayo (Berkeley, Ethnic Studies)
5:00-5:30 “The Border Comes to Tennessee: The Local Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Nashville”
Amada Armenta (UCLA, Sociology/ UCSD, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies)
5:30-6:00 “I Guess I’m a Republican Tree Hugger: Conservatism and Cynical Optimism among Immigrant Clean Air Activists”
Nadia Y. Kim (Loyola Marymount University, Sociology)
6:00 Reception: UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room (Patio)
Co-sponsored by: The Migration Study Group; the International Institute; the Division of Social Sciences; the Departments of Anthropology, Chicana/o Studies, History, Political Science; the UCLA School of Law; the Center for Asian American Studies; the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty; The Burkle Center; the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; and the Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series in the Department of Sociology. The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
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Winter 2011 21st meeting of PRIEC
Pitzer College & Claremont Graduate University
Friday, January 28, 2011 McConnell Center, Founder’s Room Pitzer College
12:30-1pm Congress in Black and White: Race and Representation in Washington and at Home (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Christian R. Grose (University of Southern California)
1-1:30pm “Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote: The Impacts of the 2006 Immigrant Rights Protest-Wave”
Chris Zepeda (Cornell University)
1:30-2pm “The Media, Empathy, Sympathy and Immigration Policy”
Chris Haynes (UC Riverside)
2-2:30pm “Ethnicity, God or America: Identity-Based Appeals and Support for Immigration Reform”
Ali Adam Valenzuela (Stanford University)
2:30-3pm “Ethnocentrism or Racial Threat? Examining Attitudes Toward Immigration”
Rodolfo Espino & Jill Carle (Arizona State University)
3-3:30 pm “Public Opinion on Immigration: Identity and Norms”
Lucila Figueroa (Stanford University)
3:30pm-4pm “Cultivating Public Support for Providing Undocumented Immigrants With Health Care”
Gabriel R. Sanchez and Shannon Sanchez-Youngman (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
4-4:30pm “Why Is There A Gap Between Public Opinion and Immigration Policy?: The Opinion-Policy Linkage in Immigration Legislation in the U.S.”
Gyung-ho Jeong (Claremont Graduate University)
4:30-5pm “The Existence and Persistence of a Sexuality Gap”
Wendy Gross (Stanford University)
5-5:30pm "Restrictive Action towards Same-Sex Marriage: Race, Religion, and the Gender Gap"
Andrew Flores and Karthick Ramakrishnan (UCR)
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Fall 2010
The 20th Meeting of PRIEC
UC Riverside
November 12, 2010
12:30 to 1:15 Roundtable on the midterm elections and implications for race, gender, and immigration Matt Barreto, Taeku Lee, Pei-te Lien, Ron Schmidt
1:15 to to 2:45
Neil Chaturvedi, UCI Responding to Silence: A Look at Asian American Representation in the U.S. Congress
Christian Grose, USC and Antoine Yoshinaka, UCR Who Really Loses in American Democracy?
Sergio Garcia, UW and Kassra Oskooii, UW The impact of perceived discrimination on Latino and Muslim American political behavior
2:45 to 3:00 BREAK
3:00 to 4:15
Lydia Lundgren, UCSD Political Messaging: How Political Elites Persuade Public Opinion on Immigration and Integration
Sangay Misra, USC Political incorporation through elite mobilization: South Asian immigrants in the U.S.
Kevin Sitz, UCR Immigrant Incorporation and Citizenship During the First World War
4:15 to 4:30 BREAK
4:30 to 5:30
Joseph Yi Duality of Freedom in a Diverse, Multicultural Society
Lorrie Frasure, UCLA and Loan Le, UCLA Re-examining the Effects of Metropolitan Racial and Economic Segregation on Political Participation
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Fall 2010
The 19th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Colloquium (PRIEC)
October 15, 2010, University of New Mexico
11am to 6pm
Authors: Lonna Atkeson and Cherie Maestas. Title: When Contextual Cues Operate Differently: Examining Black and Non-Black Attitudes toward Attributions of Blame and Policy Preferences following Hurricane Katrina
Authors: Christopher J. Lyons and Maria B. Velez (UNM) Title: City Contexts of Incorporation and the Neighborhood Immigrant-Crime Connection: a National Study of Neighborhoods
Author: Edward Vargas (Indiana University ) Title: Mixed-Status Mexican Families and W.I.C. Participation
Author: Carlos Cuellar (Rice University) Title: The Latino empowerment process: An examination of the causes and consequences of Latino representation in local politics.
Authors: Christopher Weber (LSU), Martin Johnson (UC-Riverside), and Kevin Arceneaux (Temple University) Title: Genetic Influences on Group Politics
Authors: Caroline Tolbert (Iowa) and Matt Barreto (Washington) Title: The Relationship Between Emotions and Mis-Perceptions of Obama’s Religion
Author: Ray Block (Wisconsin, LaCrosse) Title: The Obama Synthesis Project: Mastering the Literature on the 2008 Presidential Election
Authors: Gabriel Sanchez, Jason Morin, and Shannon Sanchez- Youngman (UNM) Title: The Presence of Linked Fate and The Impact of Linked Fate on Political Behavior
Authors: Sylvia Manzano (Texas A&M), Matt Barreto (Washington), Gabriel Sanchez (UNM) Title: En Fuego: Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Author: Sylvia Rodriguez (UCLA) Title: One has to be careful: Mexicans' Racial Perceptions of African Americans
Author: Betina Wilkinson (Wake Forest) Title: Social, Political Standing and Context: Understanding African Americans’ Immigration Attitudes.
Author: Francisco Pedraza (Texas A&M) Title: Measures of Receptivity and Latino public Opinion
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Spring 2010 The 18th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Colloquium (PRIEC)
May 7, 2010
The Institute on the Politics of Inequality, Race and Ethnicity at Stanford (InsPIRES) at Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
9:30-9:45 Welcome and Introductions
9:45-10:50 Theories of Immigration and Racial Formation
"Race, /Ressentiment/, and Immigrants in Relation to National Identity" Diego Von Vacano, Political Science, Texas A&M University
"Protests, Politics, and Politicians: Exploring the Determinants of American Latino Identity" Ali Valenzuela, Political Science, Stanford University
"Developing a Theory of Racialized National Identity Formation" Jane Yamashiro, American Cultures, Loyola Marymount University
11:00-12:30 Comparative Institutional Responses to Immigration
"The Nation-State and Immigrant Socio-economic Incorporation," Tristan Ivory, Sociology, Stanford University
"Woking for the Clampdown: Congressional (In)Action on Immigration" Bradford S. Jones and Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Political Science, University of California, Davis
"Going Local: The New Politics of Immigration in the US" Karthick Ramakrishnan, Political Science, University of California, Riverside
"The Machinery of Immigration Control, Explaining Deportations Across Immigrant-Receiving Democracies" Tom Wong, Political Science, University of California, Riverside
12:30-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:30 Political And Policy Consequences of a Multi-Racial Society
"Whites' Stereotypes of Asian and Latino Immigrants and Attitudes on Immigration Policy," Jane Junn, Political Science, University of Southern California and Natalie Masuoka, Political Science, Tufts University
"Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic Attitudes Toward Health Care Reform Policy" Jillian A Medeiros and Gabriel R. Sanchez, Political Science and RWJF Center, University of New Mexico
"Cross-Cutting Ties and Differential Recruitment: Mexican-American Protest-Participation and Social Ties to Whites" Wayne Santoro and Stacy Keogh, Sociology, University of New Mexico
"The Legislative Consequences of the Voting Rights Act" Will Terry, Political Science, University of Oregon, and Post-Doc, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton
2:30-2:45 BREAK
2:45-4:15 Dimensions of Immigrant Advocacy and Socio-Political Incorporation
"New Civil Rights: Politics and Strategies of Rights Expansion for Post-1965 Immigrants" Ming Hsu Chen, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
"Trapped at the Bottom: Racialized and Gendered Labor Queues in New Immigrant Destinations" Laura Lopez-Sanders, Sociology, Stanford University
"Local Public Interest Journalism: Spanish versus English Language Coverage of the 2008 Election" Kim Nalder, Government, California State University, Sacramento
"Mexican-American, Latino, and Latin American Organizations of San Francisco's Mission District in the Migratory Reform Debate in the US" Paola Suarez Avila, History, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and IGS, Berkeley
4:15-4:30 BREAK
4:30-6:00 Political Behavior of the American Minority Electorate
"Forever Non-Voters? Explaining the Paradox of Asian American Under-Participation in Electoral Politics" Naomi Hsu, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
"The Customer is Always Right: Ethnicity, Race and Political Party Perceptions" Sylvia Manzano, Political Science, Texas A&M University
"The Impact and Robustness of Immigrants' Pre-Immigration Participation on Immigrants' Participation in the US" Javier Rodriguez and Mark Sawyer, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"A Concept of Alienation for Marginalized Groups" Chris Towler, Political Science, University of Washington
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Winter 2010 The 17th meeting of the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium (PRIEC)
January 29, 2010 Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, Riverside CA
1:15 Joseph Yi (Gonzaga) God and Karate on the Southside: Bridging Differences, Building American Communities
1:45 Eric McDaniel (UT-Austin) What I Got from the Good Book: Examining the Political Importance of Religious Interpretation
2:15 BREAK
2:30 Rodolfo Espino (ASU) Residual vs Substantive Representation: Variability in the Support of Minority Interests
3:00 Loren Collingwood (UW-Seattle) White Outreach and Demographic Change: The Paradox of Black Political Incorporation in the South Post Smith v. Allwright
3:30 BREAK
3:45 Jennifer Merolla (Claremont Graduate) and Karthick Ramakrishnan (UCR) Moved by Illegality: Experimental Approaches to Public Opinion on Immigration
4:15 Rosario Aguilar (U. Michigan/UCSD) Electoral Consequences of Phenotypic Prejudice Among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans: An Experimental Approach
4:45 Update on ANES by Gary Segura
5:00 Roundtable on graduate student mentoring and job market (Segura, Merolla, Barreto, Stout)
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FALL 2009
The 16th meeting of the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium (PRIEC)
November 6, 2009, University of California, Irvine Social and Behavioral Sciences 1517
12:45 Panel One – Mass Politics
Kathy Rim (University of California, Irvine) – “In Solidarity? Asian American Racial Group Consciousness”
Betina Cutaia Wilkinson (Louisiana State University) – “How Outsiders View Insiders: Latinos' Perceptions of Commonality and Competition toward Blacks and Whites”
Katherine Tate (University of California, Irvine) – “Who Speaks for Black America?”
Ben Bishin (University of California, Riverside) and Casey Klofstad (University of Miami) – “Why Won't Little Havana Turn Blue? How Socio-Economics, Institutions, and Cohort Effects influence Cuban Americans' Political Behavior”
Philippe Andrade (Claremont Graduate University) – “The Impact of Acculturation on the General Policy Preferences of Latino Voters”
3:30 Panel Two – Institutional Perspectives
Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine) – “Immigration Control through Language and Country Knowledge Requirements”
Will Terry (University of California, San Diego and Princeton University) – “The Political Determinants of African-American Lynching in the U.S. South, 1882-1930”
Stephen Nuño (Northern Arizona University), Gabriel Sanchez (University of New Mexico), and Matt Barreto(University of Washington) – “Voter ID Requirements and the Disenfranchisement of Latino, Black, and Asian Voters.”
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FALL 2009
The 15th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Husky Union Building, Room 310
1:00 Panel A: Immigrant and Ethnic Politics
“Latino Ethnicity, Identity, and Linked Fate: Attitudes and Political Behavior in American Politics”, Ali Valenzuela, Stanford
“Immigrant Political Integration: The Two-Way Street”, Francisco Pedraza, Washington
“Overcoming Pre-immigration Barriers to Socio-political Participation in the Latino Immigrant Community”, Javier Rodriguez, UCLA
“Latino Representation and Immigration Policy”, Sylvia Manzano, Texas A&M
3:15: Panel B: Racial Politics
“Faces in the Office: Racial Employment Segregation Among Congressional Staff”, Curt Ziniel, UC Riverside / U of O
“Racial Attitudes Across Four Major Racial Groups: Results From the Multi-Racial Post-Election Survey”, Lorrie Frasure, UCLA, Gabe Sanchez, UNM, Sylvia Manzano, TAMU, Ricardo Ramirez, USC
“Racial Bias by Another Name: Anti-Muslim Attitudes and Voting Against Barack Obama”, Caroline Tolbert, Iowa
“The Tangled Roots of Proposition 187”, Dan HoSang, University of Oregon
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SPRING 2009
The 14th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
Friday, May 1, 2009 1pm to 5:20pm Boalt Law School, Room 145, UC Berkeley
First Session 1:00 - 2:20 - New Studies in Immigrant Incorporation
Marcela Garcia-Castanon (U-Wash) “Learning to be American: The Socialization of Immigrants to American Politics.”
Loan Kieu Le (UC-Berkeley) “Ethnic Spatial Concentration and Cognition: Theory, Models, and Simulations of Rational Decision-Making.”
Francisco Pedraza (U-Wash) “The Two-Way Street of Immigrant Political Incorporation.”
Roger Waldinger (UCLA) and Nelson Lim (RAND) “Connectivity and Collectivity: Immigrant Involvement in Homeland Politics.”
Second Session 2:30 - 3:50 - Religion, Ideology, and Identity
Eric McDaniel (UC-Berkeley / U-Texas) and Irfan Noorudin (Ohio State) “God?s Nation? The Political Consequences of Religious Nationalism.”
Raymond Orr (UC-Berkeley) “Social Construction in Sacred Places: Indigenous Worldview Selection.”
Ali Adam Valenzuela (Stanford) “Do You Believe in God or Politics? The Role of Religion and Ideology in Latino Political Behavior.”
Jackie Bass (UC-Berkeley) “Word of Faith and its Effect on the Churches Involvement in African American Communities.”
Third Session 4:00 - 5:20 - Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Representation
Irene Bloemraad (UC-Berkeley) and Christel Kesler (Oxford) “Do Immigrants Hurt Civic and Political Engagement? The Conditional Effect of Immigrant Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 23 Countries, 1981-2001.”
Carole Uhlaner (UC-Irvine) “The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity with Voter Turnout: Explaining Differences Across States.”
Christopher Parker, Matt Barreto, Francisco Pedraza, Loren Collingwood (U-Washington) “Race of Interviewer Effects: The Importance of Actual and Perceived Race of Interviewer in Survey Response”
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WINTER 2009
The 13th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
Friday, January 30, 2009 1pm to 5pm
Mission Inn, Riverside CA Ho-O-Kan Room
1. Byran Martin (UCR): To Judge or not to Judge, that is the Question: Social Norms and Racial Attitudes in Telephone Surveys
2. Luisa Heredia (Harvard): “Welcoming the Stranger”: The Catholic Church’s Activism on Behalf of Un/Documented Immigrants
3. Leland Saito (USC): The Rise of Political Power Among Immigrants, Racial Minorities, and Unions in Los Angeles
BREAK
1. Rodolfo Espino (ASU) and Rafael Jimeno (ASU): Latino Linked Fate and Complex Causality
2. Bethany Albertson (UW) and Shana Kushner Gadarian (Princeton): Is Lou Dobbs Frightening? The Effect of Threatening Advertisements on Black, White and Latino Attitudes towards Immigration
3. Matt Barreto (UW), Victoria DeFrancesco (Northwestern), Jennifer Merolla (CGU), and Ricardo Ramirez (USC): Bulls Eye or Bomb? Ethnically Targeted Campaign Ads in the 2008 Election
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FALL 2008
The 12th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
September 26th 2008 107 Social Science Building
UC San Diego 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
1pm Panel 1: Immigration Policy and Its Effects
Jennifer Merolla, Juana Mora, Ivy Melgar, CGU Adrian Pantoja Pitzer College "From Frames to Action: The Immigration Debate and Its Effects on Participation"
Kristen Parks, Gabriel Lozada, and Miguel Mendoza, UCSD "The effects of U.S. border policy on unauthorized migration: New evidence from Oaxaca, Mexico"
2pm Panel 2: Evaluating Names and Policies
Tom Wong, UC Riverside "Explaining Cross-national Variations in Immigration Policy: A Preliminary Research Design"
Xavier Vidal, UC Riverside "What's in a Name? Reevaluating the Spanish Surname List"
Break
3:30 Panel 3: Immigrant Context
Zoli Hajnal, Marisa Abrajano, and Nick Warner, UCSD "Immigrant Context and the Political Views of Native-born Americans"
4:15 Panel 4: Roundtable on Understanding the 2008 General Election
Marisa Abrajano - UCSD
Janelle Wong - USC
Lorrie Frasure -UCLA
Ben Bishin – UCR
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SUMMER 2008 The 11th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC)
WHEN: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 1pm to 5pm WHERE: 318 Social Science Tower, UC Irvine
Panel 1: Anglo/White Reactions Attitudes on Racial Issues
Marcela Garcia-Castanon, University of Washington “Backlash to Beto: Anglo American’s perceptions of the 2006 Immigration Rallies.”
Andres Jimenez and Louis DeSipio, UC, Office of the President and UC, Irvine “White Voter Reactions to Anti Affirmative Action Initiatives: Comparison of Michigan, California, Washington State”
Panel 2: Elite Studies
Pei-te Lien, UC Santa Barbara “Development of the Survey for the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project”
Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside Discussion of forthcoming book: Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement (with Irene Bloemraad)
Panel 3: Looking to 2008
Chris Stout and Reuben Kline, UC, Irvine “The Bradley Effect 25 Years Later: An Analysis of Minority Candidates and the Accuracy of Pre-Election Polls”
Ricardo Ramirez, University of Southern California, Jennifer Merolla, Claremont Graduate University, and Matt Barreto, Univ. Washington “Bulls Eye or Ricochet? The Effect of Ethnically Targeted Ads in the 2008 Election”
Panel 4: Roundtable on Studying the 2008 election
- Ideas on feasible research projects on the 2008 elections
- Identifying the low-hanging fruit
- Discussions of possible collaborations
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SPRING 2008 The 10th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) WHEN: FRIDAY, April 18, 2008 WHERE: Cal State Long Beach, The Anatol Center Hosts: Ron Schmidt and Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, Department of Political Science
SESSION I: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. – Reports on Research-In-Progress” I 1. Armando Mejia (PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison): “Grassroots Politics in a Global Metropolis: Latino Organizing For Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development in Los Angeles”
2. Ivy Melgar, (PhD Candidate, Claremont Graduate University), “From Frames to Action: The Immigration Debate and its Effects on Participation.” Presenting research by Adrian Pantoja, Jennifer Merolla, Juana Mora, and Ivy Melgar.
3. Jennifer Hernandez (PhD Candidate, UC Irvine), “Naturalization, Socialization & Incorporation: Children of Immigrants in Florida and San Diego.”
SESSION II: 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. – Reports on Research-In-Progress II 1. Lisa Garcia Bedolla (UC Irvine), “Getting Out the Vote: Mobilizing Low Propensity Voters in California.”
2. Raphael Sonenshein (CSU Fullerton), “Using Political Geography to Understand the New Coalition Politics of Immigration.”
SESSION III: 4:00 – 5:15 p.m Roundtable Discussion “Race/Ethnicity/Immigration in the 2008 Elections (So Far)” Participants: Maulana Karenga, CSULB Taeku Lee, UC Berkeley Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside Ricardo Ramirez, USC Raphael Sonenshein, CSU Fullerton
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WINTER 2008 The 9th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium WHEN: FRIDAY, February 1, 2008 WHERE: Mission Inn, Riverside CA — Santa Barbara Room
1pm : Zoltan Hajnal (UCSD) “Counting Votes to Determine Winners and Losers in American Democracy”
1:30 : Rodolfo Espino (ASU) “The Depressing Effects of Voter ID Requirements on Minority Voting”
2pm : Curt Ziniel (UCR) “Counting Faces and Voices: Race Representation by House Office Staff”
2:30 : COFFEE BREAK
3pm : Mara Cohen-Marks (LMU) and Chris Stout (UCI) “Rating LA’s Top Cops: Racial Differences in Public Opinions”
3:30 : Brian Thomas (UCR) “Empathetic Failures Between Whites and Blacks: Failures of Knowledge Or Subtle Racism?”
4pm : ROUNDTABLE ON THE 2008 ELECTION: Bridging past research and new realities (on partisanship, race/gender, intergroup relations, and polling reliability) PARTICIPANTS: Carole Uhlaner (UCI), Amy Cabrera Rasmussen (CSULB), Zoltan Hajnal (UCSD), Rodolfo Espino (ASU)
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FALL 2007 The 8th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, September 28,2008 Claremont Graduate University and Pitzer College Location: McConnell Founders Room, Pitzer College, Claremont CA
Session I: 1:00pm to 3:00pm 1. Jose Muñoz (SUNY, Stony Brook), “Putting History to Work: Deliberation Strategies, Social Capital, and Collective Action in Mexican Immigrant Social Movement Organizations in Los Angeles”
2. Taeku Lee (UC Berkeley), Mark Sawyer (UCLA), Jim Sidanius (Harvard), and Janelle Wong (USC), “Race in the City of Angles: Preliminary Report on the 2007 Los Angeles Community Social Survey”
3. Javier Rodriguez (UCLA), “Latino Pre-Immigration SES as a Predictor of Socio-Political Incorporation in the United States”
Session II: 3:30pm-5:30pm
4. Matt Barreto and Karam Dana (UW-Seattle) “Political Incorporation versus Isolation of Muslim Americans: The Role of Religiosity and Immigration”
5. Ivy Melgar, Jennifer Merolla, Juana Mora (CGU) and Adrian D. Pantoja (Pitzer), “Framing the Immigration Debate and its Effects on Political Attitudes and Behaviors: An Experimental Study”
6. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Tom Wong (UCR) “Immigration Policies Go Local: The Varying Responses of Local Governments to Undocumented Immigrants”Contact: Jennifer Merolla and Adrian Pantoja
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SUMMER 2007 The 7th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, July 27,2007 University of California, Los Angeles Location: 4357 Bunche Hall
PANEL 1
1. Tamura Howard (UCLA) “Framing Education Policy: The Contestation of Meaning in the Debate Over Access to Higher Education”
2. Arely Zimmerman (UCLA) “Remaking Citizenship in the Context of ‘Imminent Deportability’: Associative Networks and Central American Immigrants in Los Angeles”
3. Celia Lacayo (UC Berkeley) “Santa-Ana: The REAL-ity of Orange County”
4. Alfonso Gonzales (UCLA) “Anti-Mexican Hegemony and the Politics of Immigration Control in the U.S. from 1986 to 2006?
PANEL 2
Roundtable: Race, Immigration and the 2008 Election Mark Sawyer, UCLA Franklin Gilliam, UCLA Raymond Rocco, UCLA
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SPRING 2007 The 6th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, April 27, 2007 University of Southern California
LOCATION: Social Sciences (SOS) B-40
Graduate Student Panel Dino Bozonelos (UCR) Kathy Rim (UCI)
Faculty Panel Kareem Crayton (USC) Rodolfo Espino (ASU) Ron Schmidt (CSULB)
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WINTER 2007 The 5th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, February 2, 2007 Mission Inn, Riverside CA (co-sponsored by UC MEXUS)
Session 1:
Ben Bishin, Casey Klofstad
Martin Johnson
Session 2:
Ricardo Ramirez, Adrian Felix, Carmen Gonzalez
Karthick Ramakrishnan and Kevin Esterling
Roundtable on Immigration Protests
Matt Barreto, Kathy Rim, Mara Marks, Gabriel Sanchez
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FALL 2006 The 4th meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, September 29,2006 UC Irvine 2pm to 6pm, 318 Social Science Tower
Session 1:
Matt Barreto, Jennnifer Merolla, and Ricardo Ramírez Kathy Rim Marisa Abrajano
Session 2:
Natalie Masuoka Lisa García Bedolla
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SUMMER 2006 The 3rd meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Monday, June 26,2006 Loyola Marymount (co-sponsored by UCR) The Living Room (see “MAL” building on campus map)
Panel 1: Presentation of Latino Policy Coalition’s next survey
Panel 2: Book presentations by Janelle Wong and Lee/Ramakrishnan/Ramírez
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WINTER 2006 The 2nd meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, Jan. 13, 2006 UC Riverside (co-sponsored by UC MEXUS) Tomas Rivéra Library Room 403
Panel 1
Francisco Pedraza
Chris Stout
Panel 2
Matt Barreto, Jennifer Merolla, and Ricardo Ramírez
Max Neiman
Dom Apollon
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FALL 2005 The inaugural meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
Friday, Sept. 30,2005 UC Riverside (co-sponsored by UC MEXUS)
Panel 1
Dino Bozonelos
Natalie Masuoka
Stephen Nuño
Panel 2
Louis DeSipio
Martin Johnson
Janelle Wong