2411 - Labor Migration

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Migration in today’s globalized world includes various forms of migration, trafficking and displacement by war and natural disasters. Xenophobia is increasing, resulting in immigration laws limiting the opportunities for displaced people, economic refugees, and victims of trafficking to find sponsorship in resettling internationally in supportive environments. Increasing number of scholars are grabbling with immigrant justice that crosses boundaries and walls.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Session Organizer

• Mary Romero, Arizona State University

Presider

• Gay Young, American University

Individual Presentations

• The Return of the Bracero Program: The Migration Industry in the Recruitment of H2 Visa Workers - Ruben Hernandez-Leon, University of California-Los Angeles

• Whitewashing Abolition: Racial Vigilantism, Redemptive Labor, and the Global Fight to Combat Human Trafficking - Elena Shih, Brown University