Chapkis, who is the author of the award-winning book, Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor (Routledge 1997), received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UCSC in 1995. She is currently a visit-ing scholar in the Department of Women’s Studies. Of her collo-quium talk she writes, “In the fall of 2000, the U.S. House and Senate joined together to unanimously pass legislation (HR 3244) providing legal residency and welfare benefits to undocumented workers and prostitutes. Not surprisingly, not all undocumented workers qualified, only those understood to have been forced to violate U.S. borders and laws as victims of ‘severe forms of trafficking.’ This presentation examines whether HR 3244 is a departure from — or conversely of a piece with — other recent U.S. immigration legislation notable primarily for its hostility to immigrants and to the poor.”