Asians
and Jews in Latin America
Challenges of Immigration and Integration
A
one-day conference sponsored by:
The American Jewish Committee,
The Asia and Pacific Rim Institute of the American Jewish Committee,
The UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies,
and The UCSD Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
May
25, 2000
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas
University of California, San Diego
Agenda
Information
about papers and presenters:
Sandra McGee Deutsch
Evelyn Hu-Dehart
Jeffrey Lesser
Kyeyoung Park
Takeyuki Tsuda
Agenda
8:30
- 9:00: Coffee service
9:00
- 9:05: Neil Sandberg, Opening Remarks
9:05
- 12:00: Ethnic Identity and Mobility: The Japanese, Korean,
and Jewish Experience in Latin America
Jeffrey
Lesser (Historian, Connecticut College): "The Challenge
of Ethnicity in Brazil"
Takeyuki
Tsuda (Anthropologist, University of Chicago): The Benefits of Being Minority:
The Ethnic Status of the Japanese-Brazilians in Brazil
Kyeyoung
Park (Anthropologist, UCLA): "The 'Foxes' Outfoxed Contentions
Between Koreans and Jews in South American Textile Industry"
Discussants:
Christine Hunnefeldt (Historian, UCSD) and James Holston
(Anthropologist, UCSD)
Chair: Wayne
Cornelius (Political Scientist, UCSD; Director, Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies)
12:00
- 2:00: Lunch
Susan
Golding, Mayor of San Diego
Barry
Sanders, Chair, The Asia and Pacific Rim Institute of the
American Jewish Committee
2:00
- 4:30: Political Extremism and Social Adjustment: Chinese,
Other Asians, and Jews
Sandra
McGee Deutsch (Historian University of Texas-El Paso):
"The Extreme Right in the ABC Countries and its Impact on Jews:
A Historical Perspective"
Evelyn
Hu-Dehart (Historian, University of Colorado Boulder;
Chair of Department of Ethnic Studies; Director of the Center
for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America): "Chinese Shopkeepers
in Northern Mexico: From Petite Bourgeoisie to Pariah Capitalists—What
Can We Learn That Is applicable to Chinese, other Asians and
Jews in Latin America?"
Discussants:
Carlos Waisman (Sociologist, UCSD; Chair of Department
of Sociology) and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (Historian and
linguist, Sonoma State University; visiting scholar Center for
Latin American Studies, Bolivar House, Stanford University)
Chair: Peter
H. Smith (Political Scientist, UCSD; Director, Center for
Iberian and Latin American Studies)
6:00
- 8:30: Dinner (participants only)
