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Workshop on Immigration Research on the Bay Area and Northern California,
Statement of Purpose
Spring 2000
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Workshop on Immigration Research on the Bay Area and Northern California,
Statement of Purpose
Spring 2000
The Bay Area is the fourth largest receiving area for immigrants to the United States today, yet immigration has been relatively little studied in the region -- let alone in the rest of Northern California. The great bulk of immigration research in this country has focused on Los Angeles, New York and Miami.
Our goal is, then, to bring together scholars, community organizations, and labor unions in the Bay Area in one place to assess the state of knowledge on immigration and multinational community formation in the Bay region and set an agenda for research over the next five years. We will also invite a few participants from Southern California to lend advice from their experience.
If the scholarly community is to serve the public, the labor movement, community organizations, and policy makers of California, it must have a foundation of data and research in place. As of now, there is surprisingly little published research on immigrants in the Bay Area and Northern California, and few focussed sources to turn to for basic information on where people live, what jobs they hold and where, areas of occupation and sectoral concentration, wages and income, welfare of the community, and so on.
The Bay Area and Northern California offer a distinct optic on immigration which is not the same as that provided by Los Angeles, San Diego or the San Joaquin Valley. Immigrants to the Bay Area are different in their national origins, which are skewed proportionally away from Mexico and toward Asia, and different in their class make-up, which is skewed toward the professional-technical strata and away from manual labor.
All the same, the region disguises its problems with immigration and social integration. The number of low-skill and poor workers is surprisingly large, and in the Bay region they are squeezed by the highest housing costs in the nation. Moreover, the lack of any one group as big as the Mexicano-Chicano populace of Southern California allows Northern California to go on thinking that things have changed less than in the south. And, finally, the continued incidence of segmented labor markets, residential segregation, glass ceilings and the like is too easily overlooked in the general prosperity and appearance of social mixing.
Letter to Invitees:
We would like to invite you to participate in a 2-day workshop on immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California and the condition of immigrants in the workforce and communities around the region. This workshop is a joint project of the California Studies Center, Center for Labor Research and Education, and the Labor Immigrant Organizing Network.
There appears to be remarkably little systematic research about immigration and immigrants in Northern California, in sharp contrast to Southern California. Our purpose is to allow scholars, immigrant rights activists, community organizers, and union leaders to come together to assess the state of knowledge, to create a network of interested academics and public leaders, and to set an agenda for research. In short, we want to see if we can jump start the process of discovery and dissemination of information on this crucial segment of the region's people.
Attached is a fuller statement of purpose for the Workshop, and list of invitees. Participants will come from campuses, unions and community organizations around the Bay Area, and beyond. We don't mean to be exclusive, but we have kept the number of invitees under control so that we do not end up with more than three dozen people, and real dialogue can take place.
We want participants to report on their work, their constituencies and their needs for better research and dissemination of information, in order to establish a base-line for future research and publication of data (on both paper and the internet). [We would like for you to lend us advice based on your experience during research on immigration to Southern California.]
We intend to keep the proceedings as informal and interactive as possible. This is not an academic conference, but a working group. We would like several of you to speak for 10 minutes on what you know or want to know: your research, information sources, local immigrant workforces or communities, your unions/organization's needs, etc. Please tell us if you would like to present.
The Workshop will be held Friday-Saturday, April 28-29, 9-5, in the Director's Room of the Institute of Industrial Relations, UCB, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley.
Lunch will be provided both days. There are no fees. [Since you are traveling from Southern California, we will pay air fare and overnight stay at the Durant Hotel].
You will be receiving a written invitation in the mail soon. Please get back to us as soon as possible to say if you can attend or not. Email or call Jacob Ely, Center for Labor Research and Education, IIR, jaely@uclink4.berkeley.edu or (510) 643-2355. For further information or questions, contact Dick Walker, (510) 642-3901 or walker@berkeley.edu.
Sincerely,
Dick Walker
Chair, California Studies Center
Katie Quan
Center for Labor Education & Research
Michael P. Smith
Human and Community Development, UC Davis
INVITEES:
Andres Jimenez (California Policy Center) andres.jimenez@ucop.edu
Roger Rouse (Anthropology, UC Davis) rcrouse@ucdavis.edu
Luis Guarnizo (Human and Community Development, UC Davis) leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Miriam Wells (Human and Community Development, UC Davis) mjwells@ucdavis.edu
Bernadette Tarallo (Human and Comm Development, UC Davis) bmtarallo@ucdavis.edu
Phil Martin (Agricultural Economics, UC Davis) martin@primal.ucdavis.edu
Diane Wolf (Sociology, UC Davis) dlwolf@ucdavis.edu
Roger Waldinger (Sociology, UCLA) waldinge@soc.ucla.edu
Edna Bonacich (Sociology, UCR) ebonacic@wizard.ucr.edu
Paul Ong (Public Policy, UCLA) pmong@ucla.edu
Kent Wong (CLRE, UCLA ) kentwong@ucla.edu
Ling-chi Wang (Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) lcwang@uclink2.berkeley.edu
Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) alexsara@uclink3.berkeley.edu
Carol Zabin (CLRE, UC Berkeley) zabin@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Chris Benner (DCRP, UC Berkeley) cbenner@ced.berkeley.edu
Michel Laguerre (African-Am Studies, UC Berkeley) mlaguerr@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Percy Hintzen (African-American Studies, UC Berkeley) phintzen@berkeley.edu
Steve Small (African-American Studies, UC Berkeley) small@berkeley.edu
Kim Voss (Sociology, UC Berkeley) KimVoss@berkeley.edu
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Geography, UC Berkeley) gilmore@berkeley.edu
Harley Shaiken (Education & Geography, UC Berkeley) hshaiken@berkeley.edu
Jill Esbenshade(Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) jille@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Sandra Nichols (Geography, UC Berkeley) slnichols@aol.com
Kim Lee (Anthropology or Medicine?, Stanford) kimjlee@leland.stanford.edu
Sonya Tafoya (Public Policy Institute of Cal, SF) tafoya@ppic.org
Hans Johnson (Public Policy Institute of Cal, SF) johnson@ppic.org
Belinda Reyes (Public Policy Institute of Cal, SF) reyes@ppic.org
Manuel Pastor (Latino & Latin American Studies, UCSC) mpastor@cats.ucsc.edu
Jonathan Fox (Latino and Latin American Studies, UCSC) jafox@cats.ucsc.edu
Pat Savella (Community Studies, UCSC) zavella@cats.ucsc.edu
Karen Hossfeld (Sociology, SFSU) hossfeld@sfsu.edu
Anabel Ibanez (South Bay Labor Council) AnabelI@atwork.org
Peter Olney (ILWU) peterolney@ilwu.org
Agustin Ramirez (ILWU) agustinramirez@ilwu.org
Katy Nunez Adler (SEIU 1877) NunezK@ok.seiulocal1877.org
Susan Sachen (AFL-CIO Organizing Institute) sachenoi@aol.com
Mary Mecartney (UFW) mmecartney@ufwmail.com
Jim Dupont (HERE 2850) Jjdupont@aol.com
David Bacon (Journalist) dbacon@igc.apc.org
Mike Eisenscher (Independent Labor Organizer) meisenscher@igc.apc.org
Michael Rubin (Altschuler, Berzon et al) mrubin@altshulerberzon.com
Maria Blanco (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educ Fund) mariblanco@aol.com
Maria Elena Hincapie (Employment Law Center) mhincapie@employmentlawcenter.org
Oscar Chacon (Northern Calif. Coalition for Immigrant Rights) oscar@nccir.org
Eric Mar (Nor Calif Coalition for Immigrant Rights) ericmar@worldnet.att.net
Renee Saucedo (SF Immigration Commission) renee@lrcl.org 474 Valencia St. #295, San Francisco 94103 415-575-3500 fax 415-255-7593
Paul Johnston (Central Coast Citizen Project) johnston@cruzio.com
Lora Jo Foo (Sweatshop Watch) ljfoo@home.com
Sandra Alvarez (Global Exchange, SF) sandra@globalexchange.org
Kim R. Jackson (HERE), 209 Golden Gate Avenue SF 94102 (415) 553-3274
Roger Rivera (UFCW 428) 240 S. Market, San Jose, 95113 408-998-0428 x237 fax 408-971-8355
Pedro Mendez (IAM) 1150 So, Bascom Ave. # 23 San Jose, 95128 408-291-2556 408-291-2555 fax
Jose Medina (Instituto Laboral de La Raza) 916-654-5266 fax 6608
Cathi Tactaquin (National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights) cathit@home.com 310 8th Street, Suite 307, Oakland,94607
Lillian Galedo (Filipinos for Affirmative Action) 310 8th St., Suite 308, Oakland, CA 94607, 510-465-9876 xt 308
Don Villerejo dqvillarejo@jps.net
Lionel Cantu lcantu@cats.ucsc.edu
Sasha Kockha
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