8:30 a.m.

Coffee and light breakfast reception (Disque Hall, Room 109)

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Welcome, Orientation and Introductions (Disque Hall, Room 109)    

9:45 -11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 1 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Migrant Children’s Identity: Discourses of Self and Society (Part 1)

Moderator: Julia Meredith Hess

Tiffany A. Trimmer, “Making Friends among Strangers”: Mary Antin’s Recollections of Late 19^th Century Life-in-Transit 

Julia Meredith Hess, Rapping in Tibetan: youth, gender, and activism on a global stage

Ruth Leiserowitz, Living with the border inside and outside. The case of wolf’s children in the Baltic Region 1947-1997

Liesbeth DeBlock, Where's the media in childhood and migration?

9:45– 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 2 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Defining the Migrant Child: Contested Idealizations of Childhood

Moderator: Rachel Reynolds

Heaven Crawley, In and out of bounds: the experiences of separated children seeking asylum in the U.K.

Brendan Tuttle, The perils of maturity: suspicion and moral complexity among South Sudanese in Philadelphia

Greta Lynn Uehling, The International Smuggling of Children: Coyotes, Snakeheads, and the Politics of Compassion

            Ilka Ruhl, Chicano Children's Literature and the Representation of Mexican Children in      Migration

11:30- 1 p.m.

Lunch, on your own

Friday, June 20^th (continued)

1:00-2:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 3 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Transcountry Adoption:  Visibility, History and Children’s Rights

Moderator: Kendall King

Ekaterina Yazykova, Best Interests and the Rights of the Child in Intercountry Adoption

Catherine Ceniza Choy, International Adoption and Migration from China and Japan: A Pre-History

Frayda Cohen, Labor or Love: Transnational Adoption, Media Images and the Commodification of Children

1:00-2:45 p.m

Concurrent Panel 4 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Transformations in Caring and Caregiving

Moderator: Joanna Dreby

Cati Coe, The Structuring of Feeling in Ghanaian Transnational Families.

Cheryll Alipio, Children’s Circuits of “Capital”: Kinship- and Knowledge-making in Philippine Migrant Families.

Wilma Fletcher-Anthony, Post-immigration West Indian Parent-Child Relationships.

María Claudia Duque Páramo, Parental Migration among Colombian Children

3:00-4:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 5 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Reception Contexts in Comparative Perspective

Moderator: Nina Siulc

Leah D. Adams, Global Migration and Education: Impact of Immigration on Newly Arrived Students and Their Schools

Kim Korinek, How Are Immigrant & Latina Mothers Faring in New Immigrant Destinations? An Analysis of Prenatal Care Utilization & Infant Health in the State of Utah, 1986-2005

            Francisco X. Gaytan, Supportive Relationships and the Academic Behavior of Mexican-       descent Youth in New York City

Naomi Bushin 2B Or Not To Be, That Is The Question: EU Accession State Migrant Youth Intentions to Leave or Remain in Ireland

3:00-4:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 6 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Transformations in Gender and Household Reproduction

            Moderator: Cati Coe

Joanna Dreby, When Gender Matters:  Mexican Children’s Experiences of Family Separation

Michelle J. Moran-Taylor, Transnational Migration and Child Rearing in Guatemala 

            Kendall King, Language shift and cultural change in Indigenous highland    Ecuador: Migration from the perspective of the children left behind

5:00-5:45 p.m.

Plenary Talk (Stratton Hall, Room 113), Carola Suárez-Orozco, “Learning A New Land”

6-7:00 p.m.

Dinner, Faculty Club, 6^th Floor Main Dining Room, MacAlister Hall

7:00-8:30 p.m. (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Movie Screening, Al Otro Lado, Mexico. d. G. Loza, 90 min.

8:00 a.m.

Coffee and light breakfast (Disque Hall, Room 109)

8:15-10 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 7 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Migrant Children, Youth and Families: Rights, Borders and Social Justice (Part 1)

Moderator:  Rachel Reynolds

William Westerman, ‘If You Were in My Shoes’: Irregular Migration and the Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights of Afghan Refugee Youth. 

Hans E. Andersson, Asylum-seeking and undocumented children’s social rights in Sweden

Laure Bjawi-Levine, “Composed Identities”. Interpretations of Children’s Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Amman,Jordan

Ellen Block, Kin and Care: familial responses to AIDS orphans in rural Lesotho

8:15-10 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 8 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Transnational Education: Dilemmas, Decision Making and Outcomes

Moderator:  Cati Coe

Adam Sawyer, David Keyes and Christina Velasquez, Going to School, Going to the U.S.A : The Impact of Migration on the Education of Oaxacan Students 

Tekla Nicholas, Building Human Capital Transnationally: Remittances, Education, and Migration among Haitian Immigrants in South Florida

10:15-12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 9 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Migrant Children, Youth and Families: Rights, Borders and Social Justice (Part 2)

Moderator: Joanna Dreby

William Wagner, Mental Illness and the Origins of MS-13

Stephanie Scott, Undocumented, Unaccompanied Children in Federal Custody: How Are They Faring?

Rachel Hershberg, M. Brinton Lykes, Kalina Brabeck, and Mary Holper, Immigrant families’ experiences of deportation: Participatory Action Research as a resource for Generating Understanding, Organizing, and Change

Charles Watters, Children at Europe’s Borders: Processes of expulsion and incorporation

Ulla Björnberg and Mirzet Tursonovic, Social capital and empowerment in asylum seeking children in Sweden

10:15-12:00 p.m. 

Concurrent Panel 10 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Migrant Children’s Identity: Discourses of Self and Society (Part 2)

Moderator:  Rachel Reynolds

Jacob Hickman, Migration and Moral Development in the Hmong Diaspora

Jill Collins White, No soy niño: How immigrant youth may see formal schooling as a step back into childhood 

Sandra Grady, Choosing identity one assignment at a time: Migration and the struggle to imagine an American future for Somali Bantu adolescents.

Caitriona NiLaoire, Return migration and narratives of innocent Irish childhoods

10:15-12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 11 (Disque Hall, Room 109)

Migration and Educational Experiences of Immigrant Children in the U.S. and Abroad

Moderator:  Julia Meredith Hess

Edward Fergus, Intersection of Skin Color and Gender: White-looking and Black-looking Mexican and Puerto Rican boys and girls’ differing perspectives on opportunity and academic engagement

Margary Martin, Teachers vs. Students:  Differing explanations for the engagement of immigrant girls and boys in a Swedish Upper-Secondary School

Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Racialized Bodies in Ethnicized Educational Settings: The Case of Black Caribbean Immigrant Children in Britain

12:15-12:45 p.m.

Buffet Lunch, Behrakis Grand Hall, Creese Student Center

12:45 -1:45 p.m.

Plenary Lecture, Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard School of Law

“The Odysseys of Migrant Children in the 21st Century”

Behrakis Grand Hall, Creese Student Center

2:00-3:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 12 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Migrant Children in Global Cities/Global Perspectives

Moderator: Caitríona Ni Laoire

Kanwal Mand, 'Home and Away': Experiences and representations of Bangladeshi children in transnational families.

Chantal Tetreault, Finding “Respect” in France: Muslim French Teens Interpreting Transnational Cultural Values

Misako Nukaga, Negotiating the Meaning of “Japanese” in Transnational Childhood: Ethnic Pride among the Children of Japanese expatriate families in Los Angeles

Tomoko Sekiguchi, Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrant Family and Identity Formation Process of its Second Generation: From the TCK/CCK perspective

2:00-3:45 p.m. (Disque Hall, Room 109)

Concurrent Panel 13

Migrant Children, Youth and Families: Rights, Borders and Social Justice (Part 3)

Moderator: Deborah A. Boehm

Sara Kauffman and Neil Mallon, Risk Factors in Family Reunification for Unaccompanied Alien Children

Deborah A. Boehm, Here/Not Here:  Contingent Citizenship and Transnational Mexican Children

Lauren Heidbrink, Impossible Subjects: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

Henry Ascher and Lotta Mellander, Asylum-seeking Children’s Perceptions of Health and Well-Being: Report from an ongoing study

4:00-5:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 14 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Migrant Children, Hegemonic Discourse and Institutions

Moderator: Kanwal Mand

Jennifer Reynolds and Marjorie Orellana Faustich, New immigrant child interpreters in White public space.

Vikki Katz, From Conversation to Conversion: How Children of Immigrants Support their Families’ Adaptation

Claudia G. Pineda, The Role of Youth Programs on Ethnic Identity Development: A Case Study of Colombian Youth.

Kathleen Carlin, Effects of Migration – and a Hurricane – on Vietnamese in New Orleans. 

4:00-5:45 p.m.

Concurrent Panel 15 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Adaptation and New Patterns of Social Reproduction in Migration Affected Communities

(Part 1)

Moderator:  Sara Poggio

Sally Pattison-Cisna, Negotiating the Borderlands of Self, Healing, and Policy: Young Latino Immigrant Journeys with Addiction and Recovery in U.S. Suburbia

Xiaolei Wu, Parenting across the Pacific: A Comparative Study of Middle-class Chinese Parents in China and the U.S.

Heather Rae-Espinoza, The Global Child: Constructing Transnational Narratives of Self

Kerstin von Brömssen, and Maren Bak, Interrogating Childhood and Diaspora

8:00-8:30 a.m.

Coffee and light breakfast (Disque Hall 109)

8:30-10:15 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 16 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Adaptation and New Patterns of Social Reproduction in Migration Affected Communities

(Part 2)

Moderator: Heather Rae-Espinoza

Gail Mummert, Transnational Childrearing at the Crossroads of Family and State Interests

Heather Rae-Espinoza, The Global Child: Constructing Transnational Narratives of Self

Mona Asghari-Fard,  S.Z. Hossain, G.I Sitharthan, Migration experiences of Second generation Iranians in Australia

8:30-10:15 a.m.

Concurrent Panel 17 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

States and Migrant Children

            Moderator:  Debbie Boehm

Maria Alejandra Leon-Garcia, Mexican Educational Policy Implementation: A Focus on Outward Migration as a Social Influence in the Primary Classroom

Konrad Zielinski, Making Future Citizens. Abandoned Polish Children in Soviet Russia in the 1920s

Nina Siulc, Unaccompanied children's legal claims and the responsibility of the U.S. state

Socorro Hernández-Barajas, The vulnerability and risk of unaccompanied Mexican children crossing the U.S. border

10:30 a.m. -12: 15 p.m.

Panel 18 (Disque Hall, Room 108)

Social and Emotional Outcomes of Family Separation

Moderator: Joanna Dreby

Sara Poggio and Tim Gindling, Family separation and re-unification as a factor in the educational success of Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

Esther Shapiro and Celeste Atallah-Gutiérrez, Psychological and Sociopolitical Responses to ICE Detentions and Deportations: Immigrant families facing government-sponsored family separations and forced transnational realities

Mala Jokhan, Exploring the behavioural outcomes of children who experience parental migration: a retrospective approach

Ethel V. Kosminsky, Brazilian-Japanese Families broken by Transnational Migration

10:30-12:15 p.m.

Panel 19 (Stratton Hall, Room 113)

Immigrant and Transnational Households: Health and Well-Being

Moderator:  Heather Rae-Espinoza

Sheila Cosminsky and Diane Markowitz, Dietary Acculturation and Child Obesity among Children of Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in Southern New Jersey

Sanjay R. Nath, Mental Health, Stigma, and Service Utilization by South Asian Families in the U.S.

Enrico Marcelli, Parental Legal Status Stress, Neighborhood Context, and the Health of Brazilian and Dominican Immigrant Children.

12:30-1:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks (Disque Hall, Room 109)

1:00 – 3:30 p.m. (Disque Hall, Room 109)

Business Meeting (substantial snacks for attendees)