8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Introductions

9:45 - 12:00 p.m. Round Table #1: Transnational Indigenous Organizers: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future

Moderator: Gaspar Rivera Salgado, Sociology and American Studies, University of Southern California (USC)

Rufino Domínguez Santos, Frente Indígena Oaxaqueño Binacional (FIOB, Fresno)
Gustavo Santiago Márquez, Federación Oaxaqueña de Comunidades y Organizaciones Indígenas en California (FOCOICA, Los Angeles)
Filemón López, Radio Bilingüe/Asociación Cívica Benito Juárez (ACBJ, Fresno)
Yolanda Cruz, Petate Productions/FOCOICA/University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Víctor López and Candelaria Domínguez, MayaVISION (Maya Various Interpreting Services and Indigenous Organizing Network, Los Angeles)
Ulises García, Unión de Comunidades Serranas de Oaxaca (UCSO), FOCOICA (Los Angeles)

Discussant: Guillermo Delgado, LALS, UCSC

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Panel #1: Indigenous Migrant Civic and Social Organizations

Moderator: Olga Nájera Ramírez, Anthropology and Chicano/Latino Research Center, UCSC

Laura Velasco, Estudios Culturales, Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF, Tijuana)
"Experiencias organizativas y relaciones de género: indígenas oaxaqueños en Baja California."
Jesús Martínez Saldaña, Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno "Construyendo el porvenir: El FIOB y la participación cívica de los inmigrantes mexicanos en el Valle Central de California."
Gaspar Rivera Salgado, USC and Luis Escala Rabadán, Estudios Culturales, COLEF (Tijuana)
"Identidad colectiva y estrategias organizativas entre migrantes mexicanos indígenas y mestizos."
Lynn Stephen, Anthropology, University of Oregon
"Mixtec Farmworkers in Oregon: Linking Labor and Ethnicity through Farmworker Unions and Hometown Associations."

Discussant: Luin Goldring, Sociology, York University (Toronto)

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 5:15 p.m. Panel #2: Social and Economic Processes

Moderator: Jonathan Fox, LALS, UCSC

Bonnie Bade, Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos
"El valor y uso de la medicina mixteca en California."
Fred Krissman, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
"Apples and Oranges?: Recruiting Indigenous Mexicans to Divide Farm Labor Markets in the Western US."
Felipe H. López and David Runsten, North American Integration and Development Center, UCLA
"Mixtecs and Zapotecs Working in California: Farms or Restaurants?"
Raúl Hinojosa Ojeda, North American Integration and Development Center, UCLA
"Transnational Social Capital, Remittances and Public Policy: Lessons from Oaxacalifornia."
Javier Huizar, CJTC, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The ‘Hispanic American Indian’ Population in California, According to the 2000 Census - A Visual Tour Using Maps."
Ilene J. Jacobs, California Rural Legal Assistance (Marysville) and Edward Kissam, Aguirre Group (San Mateo)
"The Implications of Chronic Census Undercount: Practical Research Strategies for Communities to Assert Their Own Identity."

Discussant: Eduardo Stanley, Independent journalist (Fresno)

6:30 p.m. Dinner, Merrill Provost’s House

Saturday, Oct. 12

9:00 - 11:15 a.m. Panel #3: Comparative Perspectives: Ethnic and Geographic Diversity

Moderator: Yolanda Cruz, Petate Productions/FOCOICA

Garance Burke, Boston Globe (San Francisco)
"Yucatecos and Chiapanecos in San Francisco: Indigenous Immigrants Form Communities and Create New Niches in a Sluggish Labor Market"
Marisol Ayala and Rick Mines, California Institute of Rural Studies (Davis)
"Patterns of Community Cross Border Migration from a Purhépecha town: Dispersion of a People and a Culture"
Warren D. Anderson, Sociology and Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau)
"P’urépecha Migration into the Rural Midwestern US: History and Current Trends."
Paul Johnston, The Citizenship Project (Salinas)
"The Blossoming of Transnational Citizenship: A California Town Defends Indigenous Immigrants."
Liliana Rivera Sánchez, Sociology, New School University (New York)
"Searching Expressions of Identity: Belonging and Spaces – Mexican Immigrants in New York."
Eric Popkin, Sociology, Colorado College (Colorado Springs)
"Guatemalan Mayan Hometown Organizations in Los Angeles: Constructing Pan Mayanism in a Transnational Context."

Discussant: Ireneo Rojas Hernández, Centro de Investigación de la Cultura P'urhepecha, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

11:15 – 1:15 p.m. Panel #4: Migrant Social and Civic Participation in Communities of Origin

Moderator: Laura Velasco, COLEF

Federico Besserer, Antropología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa and Michael Kearney, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
"Ciudadanía y gobernancia transnacionales"
Fernando Melo Farrera, Trasparencia (Oaxaca)
"Expresiones de comunalidad en la población migrante de los pueblos de los bosques"
Sergio Robles Camacho, Organización de Pueblos y Autoridades Municipales del Sector Zoogocho (Oaxaca)"Los dilemas de un migrante frente a su pueblo de origen"
María Cristina Velásquez, Independent researcher (Oaxaca)
"Comunidades migrantes, género y poder público en Oaxaca"
Centolia Maldonado, Frente Indígena Oaxaqueño Binacional (Juxtlahuaca) and Patricia Artía Rodríguez, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (México DF)
"Migración y los espacios de organización para las mujeres indígenas en el FIOB."

Discussants: Juan Romualdo Gutiérrez Cortés, FIOB (Oaxaca), Jonathan Fox, LALS, UCSC

1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Lunch

2:15 – 4:15 p.m. Round Table #2: Sharing Diverse Paths: The Challenges of Coalition-Building

Moderator: Patricia Zavella, LALS and Chicano/Latino Research Center, UCSC

Carol Zabin, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California, Berkeley
Sergio Guzmán, United Farm Workers (UFW, Watsonville)
David Bacon, Independent journalist (San Francisco)
Hugo Morales, Radio Bilingüe (Fresno)
Myrna Martínez, American Friends Service Committee (Fresno)
Angélica Salas, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Break

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Plenary discussion: Opportunities for Future Research and Action

Moderator: Manuel Pastor, LALS and Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, UCSC

7:00 p.m. Dinner, Merrill Provost’s House