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Steven Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on the languages and literacies of Mexican immigrant families and understanding effective pedagogical approaches for teaching writing to multilingual students. He earned his Ph.D. at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2012. He was a former board member of the Mexican American Students’ Alliance in New York City. He has also published two novels in verse as well as numerous poems. Laird Bergad is Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History in the department of Latin American, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Lehman College and the PhD program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. A member of CUNY’s faculty since 1980, Professor Bergad is the founding and current Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. His most recent book, co-­‐authored with Prof. Herbert S. Klein, Emeritus Professor of History, is Hispanics in the United States: A Social, Economic, and Demographic History, 1980-­‐2005, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Ernesto Castañeda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California Berkeley, and a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. His research compares Latino and Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and Europe. Castañeda has conducted surveys and ethnographic fieldwork in the United States, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, Algeria, and Morocco. He is interested in the relation between the contexts of immigrant reception, including the avenues available for political voice, and the political inclusion of immigrants and minorities. His ongoing research projects look into migration, homelessness, mental health, and health disparities along the US-­‐Mexico border. He has published on the complex relation between remittances, and development; hometown associations and diaspora organizations; urban exclusion; transnational families and the children of migrants left behind in their places of origin. Sergio Cortés Sánchez Profesor de Tiempo Completo de la Facultad de Economía de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, especialista en estudios demográficos sobre migrantes poblanos, analista, articulista y demoscopista en el diario La Jornada de Oriente desde 1990. Entre sus publicaciones más relevantes se encuentran: “Los siempre ausentes” en coautoría con Oscar Morillón y Gustavo López Ángel en Pérez Aviles Ricardo (coord.) Problemas del campo poblano, 2011. Ed. BUAP; “Climate Variability and Change: Implications for Household Food Security” en coautoría con Gina Ziervogel, Anthony Nyong, Balgis Osman, Cecilia Conde, Sergio Cortés, and Tom Downing, AIACC Working Paper No. 20 January 2006; ¨Migrants from Puebla in the 1990s” en Regina Cortina y Mónica Gendrau (cords.), Immigrants and Schooling: Mexicans in New York, New York, The Center for Migration Studies of New York, 2003, pp. 183-­‐202. Joanna Dreby is Assistant Professor of Sociology the University at Albany, State University of New York (since 2011) and received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2007. Previously she worked at Kent State University (2007-­‐2011). Joanna is author of the book Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children (University of California Press 2010), which describes the lives of mothers, fathers and children who are separated during international migration. Divided by Borders is the recipient of both the Goode Book Award and the Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association (2011). She has also published a number of other articles on transnational family life, including “Transnational Gossip” (Qualitative Sociology 2009), “The Strength of Family Ties” (Childhood 2012), and “Making Something of the Sacrifice” (Global Networks 2012). She is co-­‐editor with Tamara Mose-­‐Brown of Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography (forthcoming 2013, Temple University Press). María da Gloria Marroni Doctora en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, nivel II, y tiene el reconocimiento de Profesor con Perfil Deseable, PROMEP. Actualmente, es investigadora-­‐docente del posgrado en Sociología, del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Ha publicado libros, capítulos de libros y artículos en revistas regionales, nacionales e internacionales relacionados con problemas de género, sociedades rurales y migración internacional. Entre sus últimas publicaciones se encuentra su libro Frontera perversa, familias fracturadas. Los indocumentados mexicanos y el sueño americano, editado por la BUAP y GIMTRAP en 2009. A partir de 2009 se incorporó a proyectos de investigación relacionados a la migración centroamericana de tránsito por México en dirección a Estados Unidos y a las características de la migración latinoamericana en la actualidad a este país y otros circuitos alternos, como la Europa mediterránea. Felipe Galindo – will provide own bio. Jaime García Leyva Indígena na savi (mixteco), originario de La Victoria, Xalpatláhuac, Guerrero. Doctor en Antropología Social por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, maestro en antropología por el CIESAS, historiador por la UAG. Colabora en el Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales de la UAG. Miembro de Kahua Sisiki – Centro de Estudios y Autogestión de la Montaña A.C. organización sin fines de lucro que realiza acompañamiento de procesos educativos, gestión de los recursos naturales y defensa del territorio. Desarrolla líneas de investigación como: movimientos sociales; educación e interculturalidad; ritual y oralidad de Na Savi; migración, identidad y jóvenes. [email protected] Misael González Ramírez Doctor de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales con Mención en Sociología por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede México. Es profesor investigador en la Licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales que pertenece a la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Ha publicado libros y capítulos de libro donde estudia las organizaciones de migrantes mexicanos asentados en Estados Unidos. Entre sus últimas publicaciones se encuentran el libro “La historia de las organizaciones de mexicanos en Chicago a cien años de su llegada (1910-­‐2010)” editado en la Colección Tierra Compartida de Fomento Editorial BUAP; el capítulo “La red social, el capital social y la identidad en la conformación de organizaciones de migrantes” en la obra Debates sobre Transnacionalismo editada por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Edward Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Medgar Evers College. Prior to coming to Medgar Evers College, Dr. Hernandez has served as Deputy Commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Social Services from 2004 until 2012. Dr. Hernandez assisted in the management of a Department of over 1600 employees and an overall budget of $520 million. He has been involved in a number of groups and activities regarding the Latino community on Long Island. Dr. Hernandez has also been involved in resolving issues related to day laborers in Farmingville, including having served as Spokesman and Executive Committee member of Brookhaven Citizens for Peaceful Solutions and Long Island Immigration Alliance. Dr. Hernandez also appears in the documentary film “Farmingville.” Dr. Hernandez received his PhD in Social Welfare from Stony Brook University. The dissertation project was a qualitative study of day laborers in the Farmingville community. Julie Leininger Pycior, Professor of History, Manhattan College, received her B.A. from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in History and Mexican American Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her books include LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power (University of Texas Press, 1997) – which received the Texas Historical Commission’s Fehrenbach Prize – and Grassroots but Transnational, Then and Now: Cutting-­‐edge Civic Engagement and the Mutualista Legacy (Texas A&M Press, forthcoming 2013.) Also, she edited Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, by Bill Moyers (New Press, 2004), a national bestseller. She is the author of numerous articles and conference papers. An organizer and presenter for the conference “Mexican Catholics in New York City,” Fordham University, March 25, 2011, she is a regular participant in the Virtual Seminar on Mexican Migration, City University of New York/Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She blogs at huffingtonpost.com. Rocío Magaña is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the politics of border security and migrant rescue on the Arizona-­‐Mexico border. Her research interests include the anthropology of violence, humanitarianism, the privatization of border and immigration enforcement, and the production of inequality. She is currently working on her first book,Bodies on the Line: Policing Risk, Rescue, and Politics on the U.S.-­‐Mexico Border. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2008 and been a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a visiting researcher a the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers. Luis Miguel Morales Gámez Doctorante en Ciencias de Gobierno en el ICGDE-­‐BUAP. Es maestro en Gobierno y Administración por la Facultad de Administración de la BUAP y egresó de la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de las Américas-­‐Puebla. Ha desarrollado líneas de investigación sobre asuntos de seguridad e implementación de programas para migrantes, específicamente el caso del Programa 3x1 en Puebla. Sus publicaciones recientes son: Morales, Luis y Adriana Ortega. (2012) “Participación transnacional migrante en Puebla, México: alcances y límites del programa 3x1” en Salvador Berumen y Jorge A. López coords. Pobreza y Migración, enfoques y evidencias a partir de estudios regionales en México. México: Instituto Nacional de Migración, Segob, Tilde Editores, 2012, pp. 385-­‐406; Morales, Luis Miguel. México y Estados Unidos frente al narcotráfico. Una perspectiva histórica, Ed. Académica Española, 2012. Carlos Pineyro-­‐Nelson is currently a Sociology PhD candidate at The New School For Social Research. He received an MA in Political Sociology from the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jose Maria Luis Mora and a BA in Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, both in Mexico City. His academic research has been in indigenous social movements in Mexico and immigrant social movements in New York City (Domestic Workers United and Movement for Justice in el Barrio). His PhD dissertation is in domestic workers’ organizations in Mexico and the United States. Yesenia Ruiz is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Universidad de las Americas-­‐Puebla (Mexico). Her dissertation research received support from the Wenner-­‐Gren Foundation for her first year of fieldwork and is currently living in New York. She conducted her ethnographic fieldwork in both New York and Puebla, Mexico. Her research interests include migration, elites, transnational class formation and entrepreneur-­‐migrants. Stephen Ruszczyk received a B.A. in Economics-­‐Philosophy at Columbia University, an M.S. Ed. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Long Island University with the Teaching Fellows Program as well as an M.A. in Sociology at Hunter College. After teaching English as a Second Language and training teachers in Brooklyn for a decade, he is now a Zeit Stiftung Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. His five year ethnographic dissertation project explores and compares the experiences of coming of age without papers in New York City and Paris. His research interests include citizenship, immigration, education, and adolescence. Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez Doctora en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, nivel C. Es miembro del Cuerpo Académico Procesos Transnacionales y Migración BUAP-­‐CA-­‐230 y cuenta con reconocimiento al perfil deseable PROMEP. Es profesora-­‐investigadora de Relaciones Internacionales en la BUAP. Sus líneas de investigación son: Relaciones Internacionales de los Gobiernos Locales y Políticas migratorias sub-­‐nacionales. Algunas de sus publicaciones recientes son: Ortega, Adriana S. 2012. Políticas migratorias sub-­‐nacionales en México. Evaluación de las oficinas estatales de atención a migrantes. Edit. Plaza y Valdés; Ortega, Adriana S. 2012. “Los gobiernos locales como actores internacionales, reflexiones teóricas” en Trabajos de Investigación en Paradiplomacia, no. 3, pp. 18-­‐38. Karen Velasquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She currently holds a Master of Arts in Anthropology and Education, and a Master of Education in International Educational Development from Columbia’s Graduate School of Education. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Fordham University, where she teaches Language and Culture, Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, and Contemporary Issues in U.S Education. Karen is a New York City native whose main interests include labor studies, immigrant rights, workplace education, and sociolinguistics. She is currently doing her dissertation research on the workplace experiences of Latino immigrants in Manhattan and Queens, New York City, with a special focus on businesses in Korea-­‐town. She is especially interested in how the workplace serves as an educational space where peoples of diverse ethno-­‐linguistic backgrounds interact and create new ways of communicating across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa is a PhD candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and a research assistant at the School of Public Affairs at CUNY Baruch College. Guillermo received his B.A. in political science from Tec de Monterrey and a master’s degree from El Colegio de la Frontera. He has been a guest lecturer at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre dame and a visiting graduate student at the Center for U.S.-­‐Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He currently is a Fulbright, CONACYT and FIDERH scholar. From 2008 to 2010 he worked for the Seminar on International Migration (SEPMIG) and for the Migration Surveys in the North and South Mexican Borders (EMIFs). Prior to starting his doctoral studies, he was advisor to the Undersecretary of Population, Migration and Religious Affairs at Secretaría de Gobernación (Mexican Ministry of Interior). Oswaldo Zavala is an Associate Professor of contemporary Latin American literature at the The Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in 20th and 21st century Mexican narrative. His work has appeared in academic journals and books in México, the U.S., Spain and France, exploring post-­‐national imaginaries, representations of violence and the political at the US-­‐Mexico border, and the radicalization and exhaustion of discourses on modernity in the Latin American narrative of the last two decades. He co-­‐edited with Viviane Mahieux (University of California at Irvine) Tierras de nadie: el norte en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea (México: Tierra Adentro, 2012) and with José Ramón Ruisánchez (University of Houston) Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica. (Barcelona: Candaya, 2011). No Bio yet: Leticia Calderón Chelius, Robert C. Smith, Federico Besserer, Jorge David (BUAP)