CANCELLED Race, Affect, and Belonging in Labor Migration: The Cases of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Marshallese Migrants

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this event has been cancelled at this time. This panel explores the intersections of race, affect, and power in the study of labor migration in the United States. Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches, participants tackle this issue drawing on their own research on racial myths, constructions of masculinity … Continue reading "CANCELLED Race, Affect, and Belonging in Labor Migration: The Cases of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Marshallese Migrants"

Ruth Milkman: Immigrants, Precarity, and Low-Wage Labor Organizing

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This talk will offer an overview of the relationship between the growth of low-wage immigration to the United States since the 1970s and the restructuring of the nation’s labor market in the same period. The central claim is that migration patterns have been shaped by, and at the same time helped to shape, broader political-economic … Continue reading "Ruth Milkman: Immigrants, Precarity, and Low-Wage Labor Organizing"