Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market

 This panel, co-sponsored by the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, will focus on immigrant workers and the shifting U.S. labor market in the next decade. Guest panelists include Irasema Coronado, Director & Professor, School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, Tony Payan, Ph.D., Director, Center for the United States and Mexico Center at Rice University’s Baker Institute, Dr. Rafael A. Martínez, Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at the College of Integrative Science & Arts and Dulce Juarez, Community Activist.

Tuesday, April 11th at 3:00 pmMemorial Union, MU 241C Ventana CASU Tempe Campus 

Panelists

	Irasema Coronado is the director and professor of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor's degree in political science and a certificate of Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida. She has an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Arizona. Her area of specialization is comparative politics, her research focuses on human rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border. She is co-editor of the book Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods published in 2022.
	Tony Payan, Ph.D., is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a professor of social sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Between 2001 and 2015, Payan was a professor of political science at The University of Texas at El Paso. Payan’s research focuses primarily on border studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. His work centers largely on issues of borderlands as areas of habitation, including the various conditions that affect life in liminal spaces.
	Dr. Rafael Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. Dr. Martínez’s work focuses on immigration, migration, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and the American Southwest. At ASU, he teaches courses on the American Southwest, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Arizona history. As an advocate of community-based-history projects, he is engaged in public projects that seek to connect academic work with community development.
	Dulce Juarez, M.Ed, brings more than two decades of organizing and advocacy experience in the immigrant’s rights movement. She has advocated for the passage of the DREAM-ACT, worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, served as a Community Partnership Consultant for Movement Voter Project and joined Chispa Arizona in 2019 as the Organizing Director before serving as Chispa AZ Co-Executive Director. She currently works at the AZ Donor Alliance which supports local nonprofit organizations in creating positive systematic change. Her passion is advancing environmental justice and building BIPOC political power for a progressive, inclusive and healthier world.