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California State University, Long Beach is inviting you to consider participating and encouraging students to present in the conference, “UndocU: Reimagining Institutions, Advocacy, and Belonging with Undocumented Students and Mixed Status Families” on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 at in honor of the 4th anniversary of the opening of the Dream Success Center at CSULB.
The conference goal is to capture the complexity and resilience of immigrant lives. Recent efforts to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to enhance immigration enforcement have left the future uncertain for many immigrant and undocumented youth. The future of DACA and immigration reform remains uncertain, what are the prospects for DACA recipients, their families and the communities where they live? Beyond DACA recipients, California is also home to large numbers of mixed-status families, where some members may be undocumented while others have various types of temporary legal status or citizenship. DACA recipients and their families are deeply integrated into the fabric of U.S. communities and contribute to the political, social, economic, and cultural life of our country.
In honor of the 4th anniversary of the opening of the Dream Success Center at California State University, Long Beach, and drawing on our geographic strength as a location with a robust and active immigrant youth population, we invite papers, presentations, roundtables, performances, and art installations for a one-day conference focused on research with and in support of undocumented students, their families, and communities. We particularly value presentations that are interdisciplinary and that bring together students, faculty, community members, and activists.
The conference will be anchored by a keynote speaker: Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (2015, UC Press).
Visit the conference website for more information at https://sites.google.com/view/undocu-conference/.
Please submit proposals by Friday, February 15th, 2019 at 5 PM PST.
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