Angela Stuesse will speak at Mississippi State University about the story behind August’s immigration raids on Mississippi’s chicken plants, the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history.

Join us on FB Live tonight for a conversation about why so many immigrants workers came to work in Mississippi poultry plants and how, once settled, they found themselves the targets of anti-immigrant aggression.

Roundtable featuring Alejandro Cerda Garcia, Adam Coon, Mariana Mora Bayo, Andreia Santos, and Angela Stuesse

Roundtable featuring Heide Castañeda, Norma Chinchilla, Susanne Jonas, Sarah Luna, Girsea Martinez-Rosas, Max Shue, Angela Stuesse, and Elizabeth Vaquera

Roundtable featuring Flavio Bravo, Gabrielle Cabrera, Heide Castañeda, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Gaby Hernandez, Milena Melo, Jose Ortiz, Maria Ruiz-Martinez, and Angela Stuesse

Plenary, Latin America and North Carolina Seminar, UNC World View

Roundtable featuring Katie Bowler Young, Ricky Hurtado, Todd Ramón Ochoa, Barbara Sostaita, and Angela Stuesse

Dr. Hannah Gill - Dr. Angela Stuesse - Barbara Sostaita

with Tina Vazquez (Rewire), Stephanie Griest (Author), Viridiana Martinez (Alerta Migratoria), and José Romero (Poet), Moderated by Angela Stuesse

Sponsored by UNC-Wilmington's Department of Anthropology, the Honors College, and Centro Hispano, Angela Stuesse will give a public lecture about her work.

Please join us for a presentation, film screening, and panel discussion with UNC Assistant Professor of Anthropology Angela Stuesse, documentary filmmaker Scott Temple, artist Sally Jacobs, and members of AMEXCAN as we discuss the challenges faced by Latino migrant farm workers in North Carolina.

Angela Stuesse will share her work and facilitate a discussion of the documentary film Morristown: In the Air and Sun for Elon University's Global Neighborhood, whose thematic focus for 2017-2018 is “Migration: Movement, Transition, and Community Change.” 

Angela Stuesse will appear at the 25th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book to speak about Scratching Out a Living at an author roundtable about the Latino Experience in the South.

The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University

Presents the Public Symposium: 

Black-Latinx Solidarity  
Exploring the politics and promise of working together for a better world.

This roundtable brings together scholars of immigration in the U.S. and criminalization to consider the effects and implications of the Trump Administration's broadening of the category "criminal aliens"—for the nation, for state and local jurisdictions, for migrant workplaces, and, above all, in people’s everyday lives. 

BOOK PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR:
Angela Stuesse
SCRATCHING OUT A LIVING
Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South

Thursday, November 16 / 5pm

Tickets available here: https://www.oaxlibrary.org/online-store/Book-Presentation-Scratching-Out-a-Living-p94314057

When Latin Americans began arriving to work in Central Mississippi’s poultry plants, local people didn’t quite know what to make of them. It was the late 1990s when they first became visible in checkout lines at grocery stores and walking along the side of the road. “All of a sudden they were everywhere, walking on the streets, speaking a language we couldn’t understand,” noted a forty-something African American plant worker. This presentation considers the processes through which a diversity of Latin Americans from across the continent have become racialized as “Hispanic” in Mississippi’s poultry communities and how they fit into and upset the existing racial hierarchies of the region.

This roundtable, sponsored by the Latino/a Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association, celebrates the newest research in the field of Latino/a Studies. Recently public authors will share their cutting-edge research and their personal experience in their paths to publication in a lively, informal conversation about research, publishing and teaching while Latinx.

Oxfam America at UNC-CH and UNICEF at Carolina present the Annual Immigration Dialogue. This year's speakers include Colin Thor West, Angela Stuesse, and Vimala Rajendran,

Angela Stuesse, author of Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South, will be the Keynote Speaker at the Labor Studies Working Group 10th Decade Project Graduate Research Symposium.

How has Latino immigration transformed the rural South? In what ways has the presence of these newcomers complicated efforts to organize for workplace justice? Based on six years of engagement with a poultry workers’ center in Mississippi, this talk discusses the story of how Black, white, and new Latino southerners have lived and understood these transformations in the chicken plants and surrounding communities, and calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together. 

This roundtable will bring three authors into dialogue about their recently published books to discuss how the politics of citizenship shape the lives of migrants and Mexicanos in the United States, how these politics are racialized and gendered, and what their work suggests in terms of possibilities for social and/or political change.

Immigration and refugee policy has reached a global crisis. More people are compelled to cross borders than ever in our planet’s history, and many are entering communities hostile to their presence. Moreover, the role of nations and states in providing for economic and political refugees is an increasingly contentious topic the world over. At the dawn of a new presidential administration, we reflect on these concerns. Join us for a day of roundtable dialogue with researchers, community practitioners, and policymakers working on key topics of immigration policy reform and refugee resettlement and services.

Panel discussion with audience participation, featuring Scott C. Phillips (North Carolina Field Office Director, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants); Felix B. Ioyoko (Founder and President of Raleigh Immigrant Community); Dani Moore (Director, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project for the NC Justice Center); and Dr. Angela Stuesse, Moderator (Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Global Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill)

Conferencia Virtual

Desde el pensamiento crítico de los movimientos sociales: ¿Cómo hacer investigación hacia la descolonización y en colabor?

What are the connections between the #BlackLivesMatter movement and Black liberation struggles in Brazil? What can labor activists learn from the experiences of Latino/a immigrants and labor struggles in the U.S. South? What’s the significance of the permanent infrastructure of nearly 1,000 U.S. military bases overseas to the anti-war movement?