CONFERENCE: Immigration and Democracy
Keynote Address: Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC)
Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
Her past research has focused on the intersections of
gender and Mexican undocumented immigration and settlement,
transnational families and the changing meanings of
family life, and the informal sector, particularly the
realm of paid domestic work. Her most recent book, Domestica:
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows
of Affluence (2001) won the 2001 C. Wright Mills Award,
Society for the Study of Social Problems; the 2002 Max
Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and
Work, ASA; the 2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research,
Latina/o Section, ASA; the 2002 Distinguished Book Award,
Sex and Gender Section, ASA; and the 2002 Distinguished
Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association.
For more information please visit: www.newracialstudies.ucsb.edu
Sponsored by the New Racial Studies Project, Citizenship
and Democracy in the 21st Century and the IHC.
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