CORI at New Orleans AAA (2002)

The CORI business meeting will be held on Saturday, November 23 from 12:15-1:30 in Room Burgundy D. The meeting is open to all CORI members and others interested in refugee/immigrant issues.

The following sessions are sponsored by CORI.

Wednesday 12:00-3:45. "Homecomings." Organizer: Anders Stefansson. Chair: Fran Markowitz. Participants: Ruth Krulfeld, Eva Huseby-Darvas, Anders Stefansson, Andre Levy , Paul Ryer, Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Elizabeth Beal, Fran Markowitz, Karla Poewe. Discussants: John Borneman, Takeyuki Tsuda, Ruth Behar.

Wednesday 4:00-5:45. "Transitory Spaces Under Surveillance: Ethnographies of the Social Life of Refugee Camps." (Note that this panel is listed in the preliminary program for Sunday but has been rescheduled for Wednesday afternoon - the new time and place will be listed in the official conference program book.) Organizer: Laura Hammond. Chair: Karin Norman. Participants: Karin Norman, Zachary Whyte, Cindy Horst, Nando Sigona, Laura Hammond. Discussant: Lucia Ann McSpadden.

Wednesday 6:00-7:45. "Civic Networks, Youth Identity, and Social Capital in Immigrant Communities." Organizer and Chair: Carl Maida. Participants: Julia Meredith, Alayne Unterberger, Carl Maida, Patrick Jackson, Denise Lewis, Ann Rynearson.

The following sessions may be of interest to CORI members.

Wednesday 6:00-7:45. "Displacements and Diasporas: Beyond Middle East Area Studies."

Thursday, 8:00-9:45 a.m. "Centennial Commission Session: Displacement and Settlement in the Current Global Context: Concepts and Experiences."

Thursday, 8:00-9:45 a.m. "Schooling that Works: Anthropologists Partnering with Immigrant and Indigenous Communities." (AAA Presidential Session)

Thursday 4:00-5:45 p.m. "Rhetorics of Exclusion: Immigration and Delinquency in Globalized Contexts."

Friday 1:45-3:00 p.m. "Bringing the Past into the Present: Family Narratives of Holocaust and Exile."

Friday 1:45-3:00 p.m. "God Has No Borders: Transnational Religious Connections Between Immigrant Communities in the United States and their Countries of Origin."