Seeking Panelists and Chairperson for Papers related to Great Depression Migration, Homelessness, Stigmatization of Transiency/Migration

[a.h....@gmail.com]

Hello, 

I am a graduate student at the University of Iowa and I would like to put together a panel where I could present my research on the Federal Transient Program. My research looks into the reasons and justifications for the short life of the program, the narratives surrounding gendered, sexualized, and racialized migration during the Great Depression, and how the New Deal administration responded to fears of deviancy among transients served by the federal program. 

I would like to build a panel that coheres either around the Great Depression or the ramifications of the policies affecting migration that came out of the New Deal. That being said, given the theme of the larger conference this year I think there are lots of points of connection here -- I mentioned homelessness and the stigmatization of migrating in search of work but I think we could also include New Deal policy regarding employment, migration, groups marginalized because of race, sexuality, gender, or ability.

I can be reached here or at ashle...@uiowa.edu

I look forward to hearing about everyone's work!

Ashley

[beaud...@gmail.com]

Hi Ashley,

I have a paper I'd like to present. It covers some of the high points of my dissertation, which I am finishing up this year. My dissertation is on Walter A. Wyckoff, a Princeton economist/sociologist who worked his way across the US between 1891-1893 working as an unskilled laborer. It occurs to be me that I could work on something that hits on the theme of transience. Wyckoff walked almost the entire way across the US over 19 months and stopped to work as his money ran out. Because of this, he covered a lot of different types of urban and rural labor. 

Let me know if you think this could fit with your work.

Beau Driver

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Colorado, Boulder

beau....@colorado.edu

[betsyp...@gmail.com]

Hi Beau and Ashley, 

Similar to both of your work, I am beginning research for my dissertation on footloose labor in the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to the 1920s. My project looks at how and why this system of footloose labor shaped Pacific Northwestern society, economy, and politics. 

Many of the same stigmas and themes surrounding transiency that flourished during the New Deal echo earlier sentiments from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I would be interested in discussing how these themes developed in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era, how local communities responded to the rise of footloose laborers through increased policing, and/or how ideas of gender/masculinity shaped migrants' experiences. It would be compelling to see how these themes developed over a longer period, and how various governments approached transiency in a panel together. 

If folks would like to work together on this, I can be reached here or via email. Thanks!

Betsy Pingree
PhD Candidate
Boston College

ping...@bc.edu

[shahana...@gmail.com]

Hello All 

In I am research project I my trying to connect with three major concepts: migration, wok and identity along with other sub-concepts. It examines how these phenomena have interconnected in present day complex social and political environment specifically in the context of India. I am looking the issue of ethnic identity within the internal borders of India along with fragmentation of labour market based on the lines insider VS outsider. 

Looking Forward to work in a panel together.

Shahana Purveen

Ph.D Scholar

TISS, 

shahana...@gmail.com

[tcas...@gmail.com]

I have you gotten the panel together? 

I have a research project that explores local reactions to migration during the New Deal, specifically, Miami Florida.  

Is there still still room on the panel?

Sincerely,

Tom

[heidi...@gmail.com]

I'm also wondering if you still need participants.  Some of my work looks at how African American migrants (sharecroppers, farm laborers) from the Deep South were racialized in a predominately white rural border South region (Missouri Delta).  When it came to New Deal programs and voting, they were often labeled as foreigners and outsiders.

Heidi Dodson