Title: Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy Speaker: Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St Louis Abstract: What happens to black professionals when work transforms? In an era of rapid technological change, shrinking protections for workers, and growing income inequality, work is no longer the secure, stable, predictable path to... Read more »
Contact Joanna at [email protected] for the Zoom information. The SSA meetings are open to all students.
"Finding Their Place – How Declining Cities Envision a Politics of Belonging for the Forcibly Displaced" Janina Selzer, CUNY Graduate Center The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. We are now soliciting papers to be presented during our workshop.... Read more »
Presented by Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara This is an online event. Please register online to participate via Zoom.
"Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability" Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley This is an online event. Please register here to receive the zoom link.
"Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles" Rocio Rosales, UC Irvine This work examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts... Read more »
Speaker: Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Title: "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" Abstract: Through the erotic webcam industry—"camming”—millions of people from all over the globe have found decent wages, friendship, intimacy, community, empowerment, and pleasure. Cam models, like all sex workers, must grapple with exploitation,... Read more »
The open house this year will be held virtually on Zoom. Please sign up for the event here. All are welcome to join!
Title: "Tales from the Field and Fourteen Countries: Towards a Global Framework of Mixed Marriage" Speaker: Erica Chito Childs, Chair and Professor of Sociology at Hunter College Zoom link is available via email.
“Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education” Speaker: Rebecca Tarlau, Associate Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University Over the past 35 years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success... Read more »
