On Thursday, April 8, 2021 from 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific Time (6:30-8 pm Mountain Time), history faculty member Michael Weeks will present at the American Historical Association conference, along with several other scholars, on a panel titled “US Immigration and Labor Policy During the Long Age of Restriction: Unimagined Complications and Responses at Borders and in Fields.” Former UVU faculty member Jennifer Cullison will also be part of the panel.  Students or other interested viewers are invited to join via Zoom: https://unr.zoom.us/j/81663796759 

 

The panel presentations are as follows:

 

Chair: 

Eric V. Meeks, Northern Arizona University

 

Papers:

“The Indians Knew Little of International Boundaries, and Cared Less”: Interior Salish People, Status, and Labor in the Northwest Borderlands

Patrick Lozar, University of Victoria

 

Making and Unmaking Labor: Border Residents and US Immigration Policy

Erik Bernardino, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Unexpected Relationships: The Agro-Ecology of Im/Migrant Labor in the Northern Colorado Sugar Beet Fields of the 1920s and 1930s

Michael Weeks, Utah Valley University

 

INS Depictions of Mexican Detainees versus Realities of Confinement and Resistance in South Texas during the Bracero Program, 1942–64

Jennifer Cullison, University of Nevada at Reno