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Asian Immigrants, Labor Struggles, & Economic Justice in LA
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
RALPH & GOLDY LEWIS HALL (RGL)
ROOM 105
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Space and parking are limited, please RSVP with CSII by email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by phone at 213.740.3643.
Moderator:
Leland Saito
Associate Professor, Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Panel:
Betty Hung
Attorney, Inner City Law Center and Committee Member, Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance
Glenn Omatsu
Faculty, Asian American Studies, CSUN and Sociology, PCC
Danny Park
Executive Director, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
Aquilina Soriano-Versoza
Executive Director, Pilipino Workers’ Center
The growing Asian population in Southern California is increasingly constituted by immigrants, and “Asian Pacific American (APA) workers are, with Latinos, the fastest growing group in the U.S. workforce and in organized labor” (CEPR 2009). Despite this, issues around labor and immigration in the United States have tended to center around the Latino experience. Media attention and political efforts often overlook Asian communities, but Asian immigrants continue to deal with their own set of integration issues including poverty, lack of authorization and labor exploitation.
Los Angeles remains a powerhouse for labor organizing but what are the challenges and opportunities for building an organizing infrastructure for Asian workers? What does this movement look like? How does it fit into the larger labor and immigrant movements? How are people addressing the needs of Asian immigrant workers from a policy perspective? And where are these movements headed?
This event is co-sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Services at the University of Southern California.