This panel examines immigrant transitions between the familiar and the unfamiliar in literature and film. It welcomes papers that explore various aspects of change related to immigration: self-image, identity politics, cultural contexts, community, family dynamics, health, professional circles, or economic and social mobility.

Please submit your proposal online before May 15th, 2014, at http://www.pamla.org/2014/proposals . Select "A (Wo)Man in the Mirror: Immigrant Transitions" as the Topic Area.

For questions, please contact the Special Session Presiding Officer, Dr. Ljiljana Coklin, at lcoklin@writing.ucsb.edu.

See more at:
http://www.pamla.org/2014/topics/woman-the%C2%A0mirror-immigrant-transit...