CFP: The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations

[Francis Hult]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations

President's Interdisciplinary Conference
June 4-5, 2010
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

Conference Chairs
Bic Ngo, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota
Martha Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota
Stacey Lee, Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Overview
The University of Minnesota's President's Interdisciplinary Conference Initiative supports inquiry
that fosters collaboration between scholars in divergent fields and across institutions. This
interdisciplinary conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and ethical
considerations in research with immigrant populations? The purpose of this conference is to
engage university and community colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines and
interests in consideration of this and other questions about ethics and epistemology in their
research practices.

Participants in this conference will include individuals from diverse methodological and
disciplinary areas, such as education, social work, anthropology, urban studies, the humanities,
and the health professions. The conference will emphasize the implications of practices in
research design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves immigrant
populations. These conversations will include concerns related to Institutional Review Boards,
as well as those that move beyond IRB, including presentation and dissemination of findings,
sharing of research design, and advocacy issues.

We invite proposals that address researchers' dilemmas as they move into, through, and
beyond their work with immigrant communities.

To sustain and extend the work and conversations of this conference, we will select a
small number of conference presentations for revision and publication in a peer reviewed
edited book.

Submissions
We encourage the following types of submissions:

Individual Presentations, such as research reports or academic papers, artistic expressions or
performances, and structured dialogs between researchers and community partners about
negotiating research dilemmas and processes.

Symposia of three or four related research reports or academic papers.

For more information about themes addressed by the conference and to submit a proposal,
please visit www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research.
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