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Thursday, November 21
A7 Thursday, 8:00am – 10:00am Dearborn 1
Runaway Slaves, Serfs, and Peons: A Global Perspective (Session I)
MIGRATION/IMMIGRATION, Race and Ethnicity
Chair: Jose Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University (History)
Slave Escape in an Unstable Border Region: The Influence of Ranching, Wars and
International Relations on Patterns of 19th Century Slave Flight in the Far South of
Brazil
Karl Monsma, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Sociology)
Patricia Bosenbecker, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Sociology)
Unity in Diversity: Runaway Slave Communities in 19th-Century Central Coastal
Kenya
Lydia Marshall, DePauw University (Sociology and Anthropology)
Searching for Liberty in the Borderlands: Runaway Slaves in Texas and Fugitive
Peons in Northern Mexico in the Wake of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James Nichols, CUNY Queensborough (History)
Discussant: Jose Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University (History)
A8 Thursday, 8:00am – 10:00am Dearborn 2
The Politics of Migration Control and Latitude
MIGRATION/IMMIGRATION, Politics, Presidential
Chair: Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Political
Science)
Local Responses to International Challenges: Migration and Labor Patterns of
Italians in the United States and Canada during the Cold War
Laura Cuppone, Michigan State University (History)
Gazing through a Thick Fog. The Governing of Suspect Populations in Australia:
Colonial Power and Collective Amnesia
Claudia Tazreiter, University of New South Wales (Sociology)
Skill, Identity and Immigration Policy in North-western Europe since World War II
Marlou Schrover, Leiden University (History)
Discussant: Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
(Political Science)
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