List of Accepted Panels

• The 40th Anniversary of Hmong Refugee Migration to the US and Its Impact on the Field of Asian American Studies
• African and African American Migrations Past and Present
• Advocacy for Immigration Reform Before and After 1965
• An Assessment of the 1965 Immigration Act and the Future of Immigration Policy in the US
• Arab American Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on the State of the Field
• Asian Adoptions as/in US Immigration History
• Chinese Migration to the Americas in the Age of Empire
• Citizenship and Belonging
• Compromised Reforms? Paving the Path to the Failings of 1965 in the Postwar Years
• Contesting Categories: Immigrants’ Rights and the Politics of Immigration 1965-1996
• Contesting Histories and Historiographies
• Defining "Refugees," "Immigrants," and "Citizens": Interrogating the Politics of US Refugee Policies
• Digital Storytelling and Living Archives: Building Immigration History through Digital Platforms
• Immigration Advocacy and Activism
• Immigration and Diplomacy after World War II
• Legal and Cultural Representations of Gender
• Legal Liminalities
• Looking Beyond Washington, DC: Rethinking the Politics Behind the Hart-Celler Act
• Mass Detention and Deportation: Unauthorized Migration and the State Since 1965
• New Research from the Minnesota School of Immigration and Refugee Studies
• The Politics of Adoptions
• The Politics of Cultural Production in Post-1965 Migrant Communities
• Reflections on Latino History and Immigrant Rights: The Bracero Program, Chicano Struggle and Santuary Movement in Twentieth Century America
• Representing Immigrant Stories Through Oral History and Digital History
• Scandinavian Entanglements and Indigenous Peoples
• Unjust Laws and Practices: Organized Labor, Immigrant Rights, and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act along the US-Mexico Border

Breakouts

• Asian American Theater Turns 50: Staged Readings
• Collaborative Curation: Shifting Paradigms in Public History
• Digital Storytelling
• Research Salon