Prof. Belinda C. Lum

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BELINDA C. LUM, PhD Sociology & Ethnographic Studies, University of San Diego

Belinda C. Lum is an Assistant Professor in the Community, Urbanization, and Culture concentration within the Department of Sociology and affiliated faculty member of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of San Diego. Professor Lum is receiving her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California, where she was also a Senior Irvine Fellow at the Center for American Race & Ethnicity. Her areas of specialization include: International Migration, Work and Labor, Social Inequality in Urban Contexts, Public Sociology, and Asian American Studies. Professor Lum is currently working on revising chapters from her dissertation, Immigrants and Los Angeles Labor Unions: Negotiating Empowerment, Politics, and Citizenship for publication. She currently teaches Introduction to Sociology and Work & Labor, Immigrant America and Asians & Latinos in a Global Economy.

Professor Lum's philanthropic work focuses on promoting immigrant worker rights and diversity. She has worked on numerous campaigns and with various immigrant worker organizations to bring attention to the dire social conditions that immigrants face in the United States. Lum also works as a community based consultant, where she conducts large-scale facilitation, develops community action research projects and strategies, and conducts program evaluations and write-ups.

Belinda Lum, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Affiliated Faculty, Ethnic Studies Program, University of San Diego

BELINDA LUM, PhD - Profesora de Sociologia Universidad de San Diego

- Belinda Lum, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Affiliated Faculty, Ethnic Studies Program, University of San Diego

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photo by Belinda Lum
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photo by Belinda Lum

APALA Freedom Riders from Los Angeles and Hawaii are detained by the border patrol in Sierra Blanca, Texas enlarge photo

Belinda Lum, a Chinese American graduate student at the University of Southern California, witnessed such a treatment.She was in a bus that was detained for over three hours at an immigration checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas.

"We experienced harassment by Border Patrol agents who arrested and herded us into holding cells," she recalls.
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photo by Belinda Lum
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Pictures were taken by Mr. Melegrito, Marlan Maralat, and Belinda Lum.

Among the many panelists is USC grad student Belinda Lum, who-from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Saturday-will share her experience as part of the LA Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.As part of her dissertation, Lum was on one of 18 busses that snaked along the U.S.-Mexico border and through 42 different states at the end of September.
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"The unions that I think are doing it right, so to say, realize that in order for them to develop political power in the United States, they need to have immigrants become citizens so that they can vote," Lum maintains.

On Friday, Irum Shiekh, a Pakistani-born, UC Berkeley graduate, will be sharing the results of her interviews with immigrants detained and arrested following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11-including her own brother.

"I'm looking at the government's role in making them terrorists," explained Shiekh of her topic: "Manufacturing Terrorists: Racial Formations and 9/11 Detentions."

"I argue that it was primarily race which led to the detention of these males," she said.

Organizer: Belinda Lum, USC

Organizer: Belinda Lum, USC

Belinda Lum (Univ. of San Diego), TEL 619-260-4698, b.lum@sandieog.edu

Belinda C Lum, USC