Shannon Marie Gleeson

People/Faculty
Edmund Ezra Day Professor, Labor Relations, Law and History
Global Labor and Work
Chairperson
Global Labor and Work
Shannon Marie Gleeson

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133 Statler Dr
379 Ives Hall Faculty Wing
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

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The Local Implementation of the DACA Program
Temporary Immigration Status, Race, and Workplace Precarity
Migrant Worker Rights
Cornell Migrations Initiative
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Overview

Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and holds a joint appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency (Routledge, 2017, edited with Marcel Paret), Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants (Routledge, 2014, edited with John Park), and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell University Press, 2012). With Els de Graauw, she has also examined the implementation of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the challenges of coalition building and local governance. They are currently working on a book manuscript entitled Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston. Gleeson is also completing a book manuscript (with Kate Griffith, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina), entitled Status at Work: Power, Race and the Law in the Immigrant Workplace. Additionally, she has a longstanding interest in the evolution of anti-capitalist currents within the immigrant rights movement (current research with Sofya Aptekar, Andy Battle, and Marcel Paret), and with Kate Griffith is embarking on a project with the National Immigration Law Center to evaluate the use of prosecutorial discretion in the service of labor rights enforcement.

Publications

Journal Articles

Books

  • , & . . Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. University of California Press.
  • , & . . Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America. University of Texas Press.
  • , & . . Building Citizenship from Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency. Abingdon and New York: Routledge (reprint of Citizenship Studies special issue).
  • . . Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. University of California Press.
  • , & . . The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants. Routledge.
  • . . Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Cornell University Press.

Book Chapters

Newsletter

Book Reviews

  • . . Review of Chen, Ming Hsu. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era. (Stanford University Press, 2020).
  • . . Review of Carré, Francoise and Chris Tilly. Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs across Countries and Companies (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017).
  • . . Review of Délano Alonso, Alexandra. From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders. (Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • . . Review of Gonzales, Alfonso. Reform without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State.
  • . . Review of: Card, David, and Steven Raphael. Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2013).
  • . . Review of: Mora, G. Cristina. Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American. (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
  • . . Review of: Lee, Catherine. Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013).
  • . . Review of McKay, Sonia, Eugenia Markova, and Anna Paraskevopoulou 2001. Undocumented Workers' Transitions: Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe.
  • . . Review of: Apostolidis, Paul. Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy.
  • . . Review of: Sarathy, Brinda. Pineros: Latino Labour and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest.
  • . . Review of: Norris, Jim. North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry.
  • . . Review of: Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race.
  • . . Review of: Jiménez, Francisco, Alma M. García, and Richard A. Garcia. Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican Americans in Search of Justice and Power, The Struggle for Citizenship Rights in San José, California.

Policy Report

  • , , & . . Santa Clara County Wage Theft Report.
  • , , & . . Helping the Growing Ranks of Poor Immigrants Living in America's Suburbs.

Magazine Publications

  • , , & . . Moving Beyond the Client Role: Helping Human Service Organizations Identify Program Participant’s Assets.

Professional activities

  • Panelist. Cornell Global Hubs Salon Series #4 - Migration and Mobilities.. 2022.
  • Discussant. “Evidentiary Struggles in Birth Registration & Citizenship Claims Among Undocumented Migrants & Stateless Persons in Malaysia by Amanda Cheong”. 2022.
  • Moderator. “Xenophobia Meter Project: Detecting and Tracking Xenophobic Speech on Social Media to Inform Policy” (with Gilly Leshed and Wendy Wolford). 2022.
  • Presenter. “Block 4 - Migration and Policy, Unit 15: Policies for Domestic workers”. 2021.
  • Panelist. “The State of Latinx Immigration: Migration Pathways/Migration Outcomes in the United States.”. 2021.
  • Moderator. “FILM: Son of Monarchs”, post-screening panel with director and guests.. 2021.
  • Panelist. “Racialized Migration the Carceral State & Worker Precarity.”. 2021.
  • The Sending State and Co-Enforcement: The Mexican Consulate’s Role in Brokering Immigrant Worker Claimsmaking. 2021.
  • co-Faculty Leader. (with Tao Leigh Goffe) Cartographies of Racial Justice Beyond Borders: Territories of Dispossession and Migration.. 2021.
  • “Precarious Immigration Status and Access to Workplace Justice.” (with Kate Griffith and Patricia Campos-Medina). 2021.
  • Panelist. “Roundtable: Migrants and Movements for Migrant Rights throughout the Americas during Pandemic Times.”. 2021.
  • Panel Discussant. “Migration, Refugees and Labor Market Dynamics.”. 2021.
  • Panel Chair. “Labor and the New Plantations” A Conversation on the Plantationocene.. 2021.
  • Panelist. “Coalition Building in Transnational Labor Advocacy Networks.” (with Xóchitl Bada).. 2021.
  • Framing Immigrant Rights in the “Liberal” Biden era. 2021.
  • The 1990s-2020s: The Millennial Turns and this Decisive Decade (paper with Sofya Aptekar and Marcel Paret). 2021.
  • Moderator. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era: A Discussion with Author Ming Hsu Chen. 2021.
  • Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers (with Kati L. Griffith). 2021.
  • Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity (with Els de Graauw). 2021.
  • Immigrant Workers and Organized Labor. 2020.
  • Structural Racism in Employment. 2020.
  • Plenary Session II Climate Change and Migration (with Xóchitl Bada).. 2020.
  • Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers” (with Kate Griffith). Presented to MIT IWER. 2020.
  • Immigration Policy and Worker Precarity (with Kate Griffith). Presented to Cornell . 2020.
  • Dreamers and the Future of DACA. 2020.
  • “All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship Not Just “Essential Workers.” (with Sofya Aptekar). 2020.
  • “Working for Immigrant Rights in The Trump Era: Xenophobia, Solidarity, and Active Resistance within the Labor Movement.” (with Sofya Aptekar). 2020.
  • Worker Power and Racial Justice: A Panel on the Intersection of the Labor Movement, Black Lives Matter, and Mutual Aid. 2020.
  • “Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers.” (with Kate Griffith). 2020.
  • Faculty Presenter. Black Work Matters series. Presented to Cornell University, Undergraduate Labor Institute. . 2020.
  • “Metropolitan Context and Immigrant Rights Experiences: DACA Awareness and Support in Houston.” (with Els de Graauw). 2020.
  • Immigration Status and the Nature of Low-Wage Work in the U.S.. 2020.
  • Local Lawyering for Immigrant Rights -- Coordinating Legal Services in the Wake of DACA. 2020.
  • Author-Meets-Critics: Pamela Braboy Jackson and Rashawn Ray, How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work, Lexington Books (2018). 2020.
  • Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the US Military. 2020.
  • Rethinking Migration Studies: Methods, Ethics and Positionality. 2020.
  • The Precarious Workplace. Texas A&M Law School. 2020.
  • Panelist. “Towards an Agenda for Critical Migration Studies.”. Presented to Migrations Global Grand Challenge: Researching, Building, and Teaching for a World on the Move. Cornell University.. 2019.
  • Portable Rights for Migrant Workers in North America. Presented to Cornell University, Latino Studies Program. 2019.
  • “Immigrant Workers, Their Lawyers, and Notions of Procedural Justice”. Presented to American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City. 2019.
  • Panel Discussant. “Expanding Enforcement: Challenges to Legal Migration in the US.”. Presented to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.,. 2019.
  • Panel Discussant. “Immigrants Practicing Citizenship in the Age of Nationalism.”. Presented to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., . 2019.
  • “Employers and the Immigration Arms of the State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrants at Work” (with Kati L. Griffith). Presented to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.. 2019.
  • Participant. “Immigrant Workers, Their Lawyers, and Notions of Justice.”. Presented to University of Colorado, Boulder. Law School.. 2019.
  • Panelist. "Labor’s Response to the Current Anti-immigrant Worker Attacks: Defending Workers & Our Communities in the Age of Trump.". Presented to Labor and the Global Economy. New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute. New York, NY. . 2019.
  • “Immigration Enforcement and the Employment Sphere: Unpacking Trump-era ‘Immployment’ Law” (with Kati L. Griffith). Presented to President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) Symposium, Cornell University.. 2019.
  • “Employers and the Immigration Arms of the State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrants at Work.” (with Kati L. Griffith). Presented to New School for Social Research. 2019.
  • “Employers and the Immigration Arms of the State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrants at Work.” (with Kati L. Griffith). Presented to Conference on Law & Work. Program in Law & Public Affairs, Princeton University. 2019.
  • "Standing with Immigrant Workers: Labor's Strategies of Resistance in the Age of Trump,. Presented to abor Studies Working Group, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, Syracuse University,. 2019.
  • Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the US Military. Presented to Anxieties of Democracy Initiative, Social Science Research Council. Brooklyn. 2019.
  • Beyond tahe Bureaucracy: Immigrant Worker Rights, Racial Justice, and Why the Law Alone Will Not Save Us. Presented to Cornell University. 2018.
  • Mexico´s Consular Partnerships to Enforce Labor Standards for Immigrant Workers: Variation in Implementation Models across U.S. Cities. Presented to Rutgers University. 2018.
  • Place-Based Immigrant Rights Experiences: DACA Awareness and Support in Houston. Presented to Brown University. 2018.
  • Immigration in the Trump Era. 2018.
  • Portable Rights for Migrant Workers in North America. Presented to Ruhr-Universität Bochum. 2018.
  • Immigration, Federalism, and Integration in U.S. States and Localities.. Presented to American Sociological Association. Philadelphia. 2018.
  • “Community Partnerships”. Presented to American Sociological Association Section on International Migration. University of Pennsylvania. 2018.
  • From Co-Optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor’s Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump. Presented to International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Toronto. 2018.
  • Worker Rights and Immigrant Resistance in Trump's Racist America. Presented to International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Toronto. 2018.
  • Immigrant Organizations: Civic Voice, Equality, and Civic Invisibility. Presented to Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. 2018.
  • Acuerdos consulares para el cumplimiento de estándares laborales de trabajadores migrantes en Estados Unidos: Variaciones en los modelos de implementación en distintas ciudades. Presented to El Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City. 2018.
  • “Mexico´s Consular Partnerships to Enforce Labor Standards for Immigrant Workers: Variation in Implementation Models across U.S. Cities. Presented to Law and Society Association. Toronto. 2018.
  • Leveraging Social Science Expertise in Immigration Law and Policy. Presented to Law and Society Association. Toronto. 2018.
  • Enforcing Rights across Borders. Presented to Latin American Studies Association . Barcelona. 2018.
  • New Partnerships and Alliances. Presented to The Worker Institute at Cornell University. New York City. 2018.
  • Forging a Binational Compliance Strategy: The Role of Diaspora Management Policies in Shaping Labour Standards Enforcement in the United States. Presented to Queens University. Kingston. 2018.
  • The Impact of Liminal Legality on the Education and Work Lives of Immigrants. Presented to Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University. 2018.
  • Workers with Temporary Protected Status: The Value and Limits of Delinking Immigration and Employment Status. Presented to U.C. Davis School of Law. 2018.
  • Roundtable: Labor Confronts Globalization, Immigration, and Climate Change. Presented to University of Massachusetts Amherst, Labor Center. 2018.
  • Immigrant Rights and Labor. Presented to University of Massachusetts Amherst, Labor Center. 2018.
  • Immigration and Immigrants in the U.S. and Beyond. Presented to Dewitt Middle School. Ithaca, NY. 2017.
  • Context, Coalitions & Organizing: Immigrant Labor Rights Advocacy in San Francisco & Houston (with Els de Graauw).. Presented to The Murphy Institute. New York. 2017.
  • Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice at Cornell and Beyond. Presented to Cornell Alumni Association of North Texas. 2017.
  • Immigrant Resistance in the Age of Trump. Presented to Cornell University Latino Studies Program. Ithaca, NY. 2017.
  • Cornell Faculty Address: Immigration Reform in America. Presented to Cornell University. 2017.
  • Labor and the Political Context in the US and Europe - The Current State of Play. Presented to European Trade Union Institute. New York, NY. 2017.
  • Immigrant Legal Status, Legal Knowledge, and Claims-Making in Low Wage and Unregulated Labor Markets.” Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. Presented to American Sociological Association. Montreal. 2017.
  • Student Forum Workshop. A Ph.D. Timeline That Works For You. Presented to American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. 2017.
  • Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco. Presented to Law and Society Association. Mexico City. 2017.
  • Towards a Transformative Platform for Immigrant Worker Advocacy. Presented to Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2017.
  • Immigration, Migration, and Refugee Policies under the New Administration. Presented to Cornell University. 2017.
  • Organized Labor & Immigrant Rights: Forging a Common Agenda in Different Contexts. Presented to UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. 2017.
  • Inequality and Immigration in the Age of Trump. Presented to Cornell Law School. 2017.
  • Inequality and Immigration in the Age of Trump. Presented to Cornell Law School. Ithaca, NY. 2017.
  • Enforcing Rights Across Borders (Introduction) and The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC): The Scope and Limitations of Bilateral Agreements Ability to Protect Low Wage Migrant Workers. Presented to ILR, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. 2016.
  • The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. Presented to City University of New York. New York, NY. 2016.
  • Organized Labor and Immigrant Organizing: Finding Common Ground. Presented to American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 2016.
  • Plenary with Dorian Warren. Presented to Worker Institute, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. 2016.
  • Narratives of Deservingness and the Institutional Youth of Immigrant Workers. Presented to Haute école de travail social et de la santé - EESP. Lausanne. 2016.
  • Organizing Migrants and Highly Flexible Workers: Between Identity and Institutions. Presented to Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. 2016.
  • After Rights: Migrant Illegality, Precarity and the Limits of the Law. Presented to Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), Universiteit Van Amsterdam. Amsterdam. 2016.
  • The Refugee Movements in Europe and Migrant Workers: The Broad Picture. Presented to European Trade Union Institute. Brussels. 2016.
  • Precarity and Migration through a Migration Lens. Presented to University of California – Santa Cruz. 2016.
  • Immigration Legacies, Regional Collaborations, and the Implementation of DACA. Boston, MA. 2016.
  • Beyond Legalization: Considering the Importance and Limitation of Legal Status for Worker Precarity. Presented to Center for Social Inequality, Cornell University. 2015.
  • Demography Pro-Seminar: International Migration. Presented to Development Sociology 6720/PAM 6720 (Professor Lindy Williams). Cornell University. 2015.
  • Gatekeeping, Brokerage, & the Process of Claiming Immigrant Worker Rights. 2015.
  • Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice. Presented to Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. Mexico. 2015.
  • DAPA and Expanded DACA: Emerging Data and Research Issues. Presented to Russell Sage Foundation. New York City. 2015.
  • An Institutional Examination of Varying Local Approaches to Implementing DACA (Research with Els de Graauw). 2015.
  • The Right to Have Rights: Towards a Critical Migration Studies. 2015.
  • Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. Presented to School of Sociail Work, University of Southern California. 2015.
  • Labor Standards Enforcement & Immigrant Worker Rights. 2015.
  • Undocumented Students and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). (Research with Els de Graauw). Presented to PAM 3040: Immigration and Public Policy (Professor Matt Hall) as Guest Lecturer. Cornell University. 2015.
  • An Institutional Examination of Varying Local Approaches to Implementing DACA (Research with Els de Graauw). Presented to Latino Studies Program. Cornell University. 2015.
  • Panel Discussant. New Boundaries of Inclusion: DACA and Immigrant Youth. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York City. 2015.
  • Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. Presented to Cornell University, ILR School, Department Seminar: Labor Relations, Law & History and International & Comparative Labor. 2014.
  • International Migration. Presented to DSOC 6720 Demography Proseminar (Professor Lindy Williams) as Guest Lecturer, Cornell University. 2014.
  • Precarious Labor, Tenuous Rights: Lay v. Legal Conceptions of Justice at the Workplace. Presented to University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology Colloquium. Philadelphia, PA. 2014.
  • Lay vs. Legal Conceptions of Justice at the Workplace. Presented to American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 2014.
  • Legal Status as Precarity Multiplier: Social & Economic Consequences of At-Will Employment & Unjust Termination for Unauthorized Workers. Presented to Labor Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 2014.
  • Consular and Civil Society Strategies for Improving Enforcement of Labor Standards for Mexican Immigrants. Presented to Latin American Studies Association International Congress. Chicago, IL. 2014.
  • Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. Presented to Sociology 176A: Work & Society (Professor Steve McKay) as Guest Lecturer, University of California. Santa Cruz, CA. 2014.
  • When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States. Presented to Urgent Issues in Global Citizenship: Immigration and Our Classrooms, West Valley College. Saratoga, CA. 2014.
  • Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. Presented to Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: A Research Initiative on Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs, Global Labour Research Centre. York University. 2014.
  • A New Approach to Migrant Labor Rights Enforcement: The Crisis of Undocumented Worker Abuse and Mexican Consular Advocacy in the United States. Presented to United Association for Labor Education. Los Angeles, CA. 2014.
  • Rights in Name Only: Labor Market Reintegration and Economic Precarity in the Wake of Workplace Violations. Presented to Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, 2013-2014 New Scholars Meeting. 2014.
  • Precarious Labor, Tenuous Rights: Lay v. Legal Conceptions of Justice at the Workplace. Presented to Race, Labor & the Law University of California-Los Angeles. 2014.
  • Panel Discussant. Common Themes, Common Challenges. Immigrant Integration and Resilient Regions Symposium, University of Southern California. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to ILR Cornell University. 2013.
  • Immigration Reform & Marriage Equality. Presented to 11th Annual Practical Activism Conference, University of California. Santa Cruz, CA. 2013.
  • Rights in Theory, Rights in Practice: Unpacking the Individual and Institutional Elements of Enforcing Worker Rights. Presented to LALS 1: Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies (Instructor: Jesica Fernandez) as Guest Lecturer, University of California. 2013.
  • Rights in Theory, Rights in Practice: Unpacking the Individual and Institutional Elements of Enforcing Worker Rights. Presented to Labor and Labor Movements Mini-Conference: Labor and Global Solidarity, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. 2013.
  • Transnational Labor Advocacy: Civil Society and Consular Reponses to the Rights of Mexican Immigrant Workers. Presented to Bases of Labor Market Segmentation, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. 2013.
  • Book Panel. Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. International Migration Section Mini-Conference: Shaping the Future of Immigration Research, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. 2013.
  • Labor Market Outcomes and the Effect of MSA-level Differences in National Origin Discrimination Claims Rates and Local Immigration Enforcement. Presented to Labor Standards Enforcement in an Era of Restrictive Immigration Regulation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to Latin American & Latino Studies and Chicano/Latino Research Center Research Colloquium, University of California - Santa Cruz. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to UC Center for New Racial Studies, University of California -Santa Barbara. 2013.
  • The Limits to Lawyering: Findings from a Survey of Low-Wage Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Presented to Low Wage Workers & Organizing Conference, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. 2013.
  • Claiming Rights, Reclaiming Dignity: Examining the Legal Mobilization of Low-Wage Workers. Presented to Population Association of America Annual Meeting . New Orleans, LA. 2013.
  • Immigration Policies Hurt Immigrant Families More Than They Help. Presented to Immigration Reform: A System for the 21st Century, Rice University Baker Institute's Latin America Initiative Immigration Research Project, Rice University. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Nation Workshop, Stanford University. 2013.
  • The Limits to Lawyering: Findings from a Survey of Low-Wage Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Presented to Challenges and Opportunities for Labor in the New West, Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Reno/Sparks, NV. 2013.
  • Between Support and Shame: The Impacts of Workplace Violations for Immigrant Families. Presented to UC-Wide Immigration Conference, We Asked For Workers And Families Came: Children, Youth, And Families In Migration, International Institute Program on International Migration, University of California-Los Angeles. 2013.
  • When Do Papers Matter? Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States. Presented to Undocunation Immigration Symposium, University of California-Berkeley. 2013.
  • Rights in Theory, Rights in Practice: Unpacking the Individual and Institutional Elements of Enforcing Worker Rights. Presented to Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of California-Santa Cruz. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of California-Davis. 2013.
  • Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Presented to Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame. 2012.
  • An Evaluation of the Economic Argument in Favor of Immigrant Rights” Workshop for the Working Group. Presented to Changing Workforce: Immigrants and Their Impact on The Meanings of Work, UC Humanities Research Institute. 2012.
  • Immigrants and Occupational Health. Presented to 7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, Center of Expertise on Migration and Health Research. 2012.
  • COEMH Research Training Workshop. Presented to 7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, Center of Expertise on Migration and Health Research Workshop. 2012.
  • Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Past and Present Emigration Policies. Presented to Latin American Studies Association International Congress. San Francisco, CA. 2012.
  • Organized Labor & State Politics. Presented to CLTE 92: The State of State Politics in California (Professor Jonathan Fox) as Guest Lecturer, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2012.
  • Brokering Rights: Examining the Legal Mobilization of Undocumented Workers. Presented to New Borderlands in Las Américas: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Recent Sites of Migrant Reception I, Latin American Studies Association International Congress. San Francisco, CA. 2012.
  • Panel Contributor. Immigrant Rights. Human Rights Conference, Monterey Institute of International Studies. 2012.
  • Navigating Occupational Health Rights: Low-Wage Work, Immigration, and Workers’ Compensation in California. Presented to Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Workshop, University of California – Irvine School of Law. 2012.
  • Rights in Theory, Rights in Practice: Barriers to Claims-making for Immigrant Workers. Presented to Immigration Symposium, Silicon Valley Center for Global Studies, San Jose State University. 2012.
  • Mobilizing Rights, Navigating Bureaucracies: Assessing the Legal Mobilization of Low-Wage Workers. Presented to Defining and Defending Global Workers’ Rights Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park Project for Global Workers’ Rights. 2012.
  • Choosing Your Path in Sociology. Presented to SOCI 170: Applied Sociology (Professor Laura Nichols) as Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University. 2012.
  • Pay, Papers and Pain: The Occupational Health Experiences of Latino Immigrant Restaurant Workers. Presented to Labor Across the Food System Conference, University of California-Santa Cruz. 2012.
  • To Protect One, We Must Protect All: Bureaucratic Scripts for Protecting Undocumented Workers. Presented to Perspectives on Citizenship II: Citizenship in Practice, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. 2011.
  • Invited Partcipant. Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Workshop, Second Working Group Meeting, University of California, Hastings. 2011.
  • Co-Faculty Facilitator. COEMH Research Training Workshop, 6th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health. Center of Expertise on Migration and Health Research Workshop. 2011.
  • Assessing Processes of Legal Mobilization amongst Low-Wage Immigrant Workers: Findings from the San Francisco Bay Area. Presented to Citizenship and Immigration Collaborative Research Network Session. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 2011.
  • Towards a More Transformative Vision of Immigration Reform: Navigating the Realms of the ‘Ideal’ and ‘Non-Ideal'. Presented to Pre-LSA Workshop, University of California – Berkeley School of Law and Haas Diversity Research Center. 2011.
  • Creating a Research Presentation: Do’s and Don’ts. Presented to Faculty Mentorship Program as Guest Lecturer, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2011.
  • Two Paths to Justice: Framing & Strategizing Immigrant Labor Rights in San Jose & Houston. Presented to Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium, University of California-Davis. 2011.
  • Article Publishing. Presented to Department of Sociology Graduate Student Workshop, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2011.
  • Considering Grad School: Assessing Your Options and Becoming Your Best Advocate. Presented to Womyn of Color Conference, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2011.
  • Assessing Processes of Legal Mobilization amongst Low-Wage Workers. Presented to Race, Nation, Identity: The 1st Annual Conference of the UC Center for New Racial Studies, University of California – Los Angeles. 2011.
  • Theory Building or Building Justice through Research? Lessons Learned from a Survey of Low-Wage Workers. Presented to Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University. 2011.
  • To Protect One, We Must Protect All: Bureaucratic Scripts for Protecting Undocumented Workers. Presented to Persistent Puzzles in Immigration Law, Immigration Law Symposium, University of California – Irvine School of Law. 2011.
  • The Road Paved with Good Intentions: Bureaucratic Efforts to Protect the Undocumented Worker in the United States. Presented to Department of Psychology Colloquium, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2010.
  • Migration and Health. Co-Faculty Facilitator for GHS 201A: Foundations of Global Health (Professor John Ziegler). University of California – San Francisco. 2010.
  • Immigration Reform: A Look at SB1070. Presented to Practical Activism Conference , University of California – Santa Cruz. 2010.
  • “They Come Here to Work!” v. “Tenemos Que Aguantar”: The Power and Limitations of the Legalization Rhetoric for Claims-Making Amongst Undocumented Workers. Presented to Thematic Session. Mobilizing Against the Odds: Undocumented Immigrants Organizing and Making Claims in U.S. Society. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. 2010.
  • Wasted Talent and Hard Work: An Evaluation of Framing in the Immigrant Rights Movement. Presented to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2010.
  • Rights in Name Only: An Examination of the Workers Compensation System in California. Presented to Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA. 2010.
  • Panel Participant. Author Meets Critic: ‘Undermining Race: Ethnic Identity in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920’ (Phylis Martinelli, University of Arizona: 2009). Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA. 2010.
  • Waiting for Payday: Patterns in Federal Wage & Hour Enforcement. Presented to Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA. 2010.
  • Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities: Lessons Learned. Presented to Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Cleveland, OH. 2009.
  • Protecting Your Own: The Mexican Consulate and the Área de Protección. Presented to Undocumented Hispanic Migration: On the Margins of a Dream, Connecticut College. 2009.
  • No es tan grave….Rejecting Workers’ Compensation Benefits: A Case Study of Latino Immigrant. Presented to Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work: Inequality at Work, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 2009.
  • Membership, Opportunity, and Claims Making: Undocumented Immigrants Negotiating Bureaucracies. Presented to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 2009.
  • Using Quantitative Data in Your Research. Presented to LALS 194E – Latino International Migration (Professor Susanne Jonas) as Guest Lecturer, University of California-Santa Cruz. 2009.
  • Tenemos Que Aguantar: Legitimating Exploitation and the Ethic of Citizenship for Undocumented Workers. Presented to Department of Psychology Colloquium, University of California – Santa Cruz. 2009.
  • The Emergence of a Transnational Bureaucracy in Domestic Labor Standards Enforcement? Consular Efforts to Protect Immigrant Workers. Presented to Chicano/Latino Research Center Workshop Series (2008-2009), University of California – Santa Cruz. 2009.
  • The Daily Special: Barriers to Accessing Rights for Undocumented Workers in the Restaurant Industry. Presented to LALS 230 - Political Ecology in Latin America (Professor Flora Lu) as Guest Lecturer, University of California-Santa Cruz. 2008.
  • Law and Society… and Race. Presented to 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. Honolulu, HI. 2008.
  • No es tan grave…Rejecting Workers’ Compensation Benefits: A Case Study of Latino Immigrant Restaurant Workers. Presented to Migration and Health Research Workshop, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California- San Diego. 2008.
  • Labor Protections for All?: Immigrant Documentation Status and Legal Consciousness. Presented to Section on Sociology of Law: Law, Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. 2008.
  • Getting Through Graduate School. Presented to Norma Williams Graduate Mentoring Workshop, Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Boston, MA. 2008.
  • Immigrants and the U.S. Economy. Presented to Guest Lecture for PS 138F: Immigrants, Citizenship, and the State (Rebecca Hamlin and Ken Haig), University of California-Berkeley. 2008.
  • La Movilización de la Comunidad Inmigrante Latina en Un Año Electoral. Presented to Multicultural Institute. Berkeley, CA. 2008.
  • From Rights to Claims: The Role of Civil Society in Making Rights Real for Undocumented Workers. Presented to UC Berkeley Spotlight on Immigration Conference, University of California-Berkeley. 2008.
  • Papeles y Derechos: Workplace Violations and Claims-Making Amongst Latino Immigrant Workers. Presented to UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender. 2008.
  • State Variation in Labor Violations in the U.S. Presented to UC Berkeley Department of Demography Brown Bag Series. 2007.
  • Labor Violations and Opportunities for State and Local Responses. Presented to Immigrant Rights Summit, City and County of San Francisco. 2007.
  • Civic Inequality: Civic and Political Presence among Immigrants in the Silicon Valley. Presented to Session on Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement: Interdisciplinary Approaches, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2007.
  • Organizing for Latino Immigrant Rights in Two U.S. Cities: The Case of San Jose and Houston. Presented to Session: Section on Sociology of Law: Law and Institutions. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. 2007.
  • Keynote Address. Presented to Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society, Santa Clara University. 2007.
  • Latino Civic Organizing in Comparative Perspective: How Individual, Community, and Contextual Determinants Shape Civic and Political Participation. Presented to Section on Latino/a Sociology: Social and Political Capital Among Latinos in Urban Areas. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. 2006.
  • Return on Investment: Educational Choices and Demographic Change in California's Future. Presented to Session: Inequality, Labor Force, Education, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Policy. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. 2006.
  • Re-conceptualizing the Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparison of Economic and Political Migrants, The Case of the Mexican and Vietnamese Communities. Presented to Section on International Migration Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 2005.
  • Graduate Student Panel. Economic Integration of Immigrants: Comparison of Mexican and Vietnamese Outcomes. Crossing the Line: Current Research on Immigrant Workers and the U.S.- Mexico Border- Graduate Student Panel, Center for Latino Policy Research, University of California-Berkeley. 2005.
  • An Analysis of the Determinants of the Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Multi-Dimensional Approach. Presented to Session: Economic Integration of Immigrants. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 2005.
  • An Analysis of Wage Attainment and Occupational Status of Mexican Immigrant Men Living in the U.S.: A Comparison of Current Population Survey and Mexican Migration Project Data. Presented to California Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Riverside, CA. 2004.
  • Burnout in the Non-profit Human Services. Presented to 29th Annual Western Anthropology/Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University. 2002.
  • Organizational Culture in a Non-profit Human Service Organization. Presented to 29th Annual Western Anthropology/Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University. 2002.
  • Exploring the Experience of Low Income Latinos in Silicon Valley. Presented to 28th Annual Western Anthropology/Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University. 2001.

Honors and Awards

  • Access to Justice Faculty Scholar, American Bar Foundation (ABF)/JPB Foundation.
  • ILR High Road Builders Award co-winner, 2020 (with Lorna C. Hill), ILR, Buffalo Co-Lab.
  • Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University.
  • Public Voices Thought Leaders Fellowship, Cornell University.
  • Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association International Migration Section’s Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award for Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, American Sociological Association.
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