March 5-6, 2009 |
Seminar Speakers
Frank D. Bean
Prior to joining the UCI faculty, Frank D. Bean served as Ashbel Smith Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Director of the Population Research Center, and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also the founding Director of both the Program for Research on Immigration Policy and the Population Studies Center at The Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Research School for Advanced Social Sciences at the Australian National University, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Russell Sage Foundation, as well as Distinguished Senior Visiting Fellow at CCIS and the Center for U.S. Mexico Relations at the University of California, San Diego. His current research focuses on the implications of U.S. immigration policies, Mexican immigrant incorporation, the implications of immigration for changing race/ethnicity in the United States, the determinants and health consequences of immigrant naturalization, and the development of new estimates of unauthorized immigration and emigration.
Kathleen Kim
Before joining Loyola Law School, Kathleen Kim pioneered civil litigation on behalf of human trafficking survivors at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. She launched and directed the Human Trafficking Project as a Skadden Fellow, the first of its kind to focus on the civil rights of trafficked individuals to receive monetary compensation for the abuse of forced labor. In 2005, Kathleen became the inaugural Immigrants' Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in the representation of indigent immigrants in deportation proceedings and other immigration matters. Kathleen co-directs the Anti-Trafficking Litigation Assistance and Support Team (ATLAST) and is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery coordinated by the California Attorney General's office. She has published several works providing critical perspectives on the impact of United States' policies and practices on the rights of immigrants and human trafficking survivors. Kathleen received her J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was an associate editor of Stanford Law Review and a Judge M. Takasugi Public Interest Fellow.
Gay Seidman
Gay Seidman is professor of Sociology at UW-Madison. She has written widely on labor and social movements in developing regions, especially in Southern Africa and Latin America. Her most recent book, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism (Russell Sage, 2007) examines transnational efforts to monitor working conditions around the world. In 2008-9, she is a visiting fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies' program on development and democracy.
Shivali Shah
Shivali Shah is an immigration attorney, journalist, and immigrants’ rights activist. Shah was a founder of Kiran: Domestic Violence and Crisis Services for South Asians in North Carolina where she first starting working with battered wives of foreign workers during law school. Later she conducted a survey of 100 women on the H-4 dependent spouse visa and was instrumental in getting a provision into the Violence Against Women Act allowing battered dependent spouses work authorization. She has written extensively on the subject including a chapter on legal constraints for battered dependent spouses in Body Evidence: Domestic Violence Among South Asians in America, Ed. Dasgupta. Her activism has been covered by the Washington Post, NPR, BBC, and other mainstream and ethnic media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. She has taught Women, Public Policy, and the Law at Rutgers University. While in the Middle East, she did consultation work for grassroots human rights organizations working for the rights of immigrant laborers from India and other Asian countries. She has lectured and conducted trainings on immigrant legal rights in India, Turkey, Bahrain, Dubai, Germany and the U.S. Shivali received her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Columbia College, Columbia University. Shivali received her J.D. from Duke Law School where she was on the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. She received her Cft. from the Duke University Graduate Department of Women's Studies where she was the winner of Dora Ann Little Service Award. Currently, Shivali is in private practice; clients include battered dependent spouses on the H-4 visa, dependent immigrant spouses transitioning to the U.S. workforce, high skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas in labor disputes with their employers, and non-profit organizations.