The speakers and panels scheduled reflect the commitment to academic rigor, community engagement, and student participation in studying immigrant worker issues in the state of Minnesota. Presenters and their presentation topics can be found at the Conference Brochure.
Does Anyone Understand Immigration? Why Economists Have So Much Trouble Dealing with a Complex Issue
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Workers at the Border: Class in American Immigration Policy
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Fast and Slow Food: Latino Immigrants’ Contributions to Midwestern Food Systems
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
From Casualties of “Development” to Political Actors? Latino Immigrants in Nebraska
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Dr. Mónica García-Pérez (ECON): Hiring Patterns of Small Firms by Race/Ethnicity of Owner and Coworkers
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Dr. Ann Finan (SOC) and Dr. Sandrine Zerbib (SOC): New immigrant Women Farmers in Minnesota: Exploring the Effects of Gender and Immigrant Identity on Farming
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Dr. Jimmy Patino (ETHN) and Ernesto Velez Busto (Immigrant Community Organizer)
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Leif Johnson (Macalester): Arizona to Minnesota: Detention and Solidarity
Video
Cassie Anderson (SCSU): The Impact of the Ongoing Unemployment Crisis on St. Cloud’s Somali Immigrant Workers
Video
Mario Colloly Torres (Retail Cleaning Worker/Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha Member)
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Garat Ibrahim Organizer (Minnesota Organizer for the Midwest Immigrant Health Project, Center for New Community)
Video
Ernesto Velez Bustos (Centro Campesino)
Video
Dr. Chukwunyere Ugochukwu (CMST): Colored Spaces in Small Towns and Rural Areas in Minnesota
Video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
David Riley, (SCSU Student): Gentrification and South Minneapolis' Latino Community
Video
Dr. Margaret Villaneuva (CMST): Demographic Changes and Implications for Immigrants from Minnesota Towns
Video
Abdikani Dirie and Abdurahman Adam - Union Stewards IMAW [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers], Production Workers (Electrolux, St. Cloud)
Colleen Murphy (IAMAW) [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers]
Brian Payne, (CTUL): What are Silent Raids? How Do They Affect immigrant Workers?
Video
Tania Cortez (SEIU Local 26, former Chipotle Worker): Chipotle, Silent Raid, and Mass Firing
Video
Rafael Morataya: (SEIU Local 26 Organizer) Dealing With Raids: ABM Maintenance Workers
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Q&A
Video
Dr. Orn Bodvarsson, Presider, (Chair, MGMT)
Dr. Mónica García-Pérez (ECON): Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.: Propensities and Local Impacts
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Yolanda Cotterall, (Dir., Latino Economic Development Center): Immigrant Micro-enterprise Development: Overview, Strategies, Opportunities and Best Practices
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Rojelio Aberto Gonzalez, (Rag’s Auto Repair in (Little Falls): The Local Immigrant Experience
Video: Part 1 Part 2
Mayuli Bales: (Casa Guadalupe): Entrepreneurship and the Immigrant Community
Video