From The City College of New York:
“Women & Work in the Americas” will be held Friday, March 23rd, from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at The Center for Worker Education (215 Broadway, 7th Floor). The symposium is free.
Explore issues facing women workers across the Americas, including Wal-Mart workers in Chile, formerly trafficked global women workers, and immigrant women workers in the US, in honor of Women’s History Month.
Carolina Bank Muñoz will deliver the opening lecture, “Wal-Mart in Chile: Women, Organizing and Resistance.” Bank Muñoz is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College/CUNY and the author of Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, winner of the Terry book award. Her areas of research are immigration, labor and work, Latin America, and race, class and gender. Her current research is on Wal-Mart in Chile, where she lived for seven months while on a Fulbright.
Bank Muñoz’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion, at which scholars and activists will discuss issues facing immigrant women workers in the US. The panel features Alyshia Gálvez (Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College/CUNY), Joycelyn Gill-Campbell (Outreach Coordinator, Domestic Workers United), Ruth Milkman (Sociology, Murphy Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center), and Susanna Rosenbaum (Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University).
Denise Brennan will deliver the closing lecture, “Global Women Workers: Life in and after Trafficking into Forced Labor.” Brennan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University, and Faculty Fellow of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown. She is the author of What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic (Duke University Press). She is completing a book on the resettlement of formerly trafficked persons in the United States, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and beginning the field research for a book on how families cope with detention and deportation, Shattered Families: Life After Deportation.
This event is co-sponsored by the Dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, the MA Program in the Study of the Americas, the CCNY Women’s Studies Program, and the Frances S. Patai Fund.
For further information, contact Professor Kathlene McDonald: kmcdonald@ccny.cuny.edu