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Immigration and Mobility Studies
With New York and Long Island continuing to be immigration hotspots, this initiative
is committed to probing the intersectional dimensions of the immigrant experience,
including how immigrant communities (local and global) confront inequality and fight
for social justice. Again, analytics of work and class are essential for understanding
what immigrant may face and endure. Through leadership of Lori Flores and Nancy Hiemstra,
this intiative hopes to become a vehicle for intellectual exchange and collaboration
on these topics among Stony Brook and other scholars, while also seeking to connect
with and support to communities of immigrants on Long Island, and the organizations
that work with them. One inspiration precedent is the CSWCL project “Unseen America,”
which furnished immigrant Latino workers with cameras and professional photographic
guidance to enable them to tell their own stories, which were then disseminated widely.
Building on CSWCL ties to the National Domestic Workers Alliance, faculty working
on other areas of migration and labor (Tracey Walters along with Daniela Fleshner)
will strengthen our relationship with this organization and others who work on behalf
of Caribbean, Asian, and Latina immigrant workers.