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This discussion will explore a wide range of immigrant stories and experiences, including Vietnamese refugee girlhood, community-building for Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, and the role of Black migrant women\u2019s labor in the construction of the Panama Canal.

• Lan Duong\xa0is associate\u202fprofessor in Cinema and Media Studies at USC.\xa0She is the author of\xa0Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism\xa0and co-writer of\xa0Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies. Her debut collection of poetry,\xa0Nothing Follows, is forthcoming (April 2023).
• Joan Flores-Villalobos\xa0is an assistant professor of History at USC and author of\xa0The Silver Women: How Black Women\u2019s Labor Made the Panama Canal.\xa0Her work focuses on gender, empire, race, and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean\xa0and\xa0has received support from the Ford Foundation and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.
• Natalia Molina\xa0is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC whose research explores the interconnected histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of several books, including\xa0How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts\xa0and, most recently,\xa0Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.

Moderator:\xa0Viet Thanh Nguyen\xa0is the\xa0Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of\xa0The Sympathizer,\xa0The Committed,\xa0The Refugees, and\xa0Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. He is\xa0the\xa0Aerol\xa0Arnold Chair of English and a professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at USC. He is also a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.