Public Sociology Conference, March 16-17
January 12, 2012
The conference aims to encourage meaningful conversations and practices between scholars, policy makers and local Latino/a communities on undocumented immigrants in Orange County. It is an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Department of Sociology of Wilkinson College in collaboration with the College of Education Studies and the School of Law at Chapman University, in effort to engage scholars, grassroots groups, students and local institutions in serious dialogue on different models of conversations, engagement practices.
The conference will consist of six special panels of community members and scholars discussing: (1) bridging academia with community, (2) media representation, (3) legal and border issues, (4) labor and education issues, (5) community activism and human rights, and (6) health, community and church involvement of undocumented immigrants.