Objectives and Outputs

Objectives

• Study how Latino immigrants integrate into new settlement communities.
• Foster integration and recognize the contributions of new residents.
• Identify factors that facilitate or impede socioeconomic integration.

Guiding Questions

• What are the strategies Latino immigrants use to integrate into communities and lead sustainable, high quality lives?
• What factors facilitate or impede their economic integration?

Outputs

• Recommendations to help inform organizations and policy makers on the means that facilitate successful paths of integration.
• Policy briefs will be written to guide local and state level institutions.
• A handbook will be prepared on how to develop community integration indicators and how to use them for community development.
• The investigators will write a book of community case studies and present findings at forums and Cambio de Colores.