Cambio Center News - August 2006
Cambio de Colores in Southwest Missouri: A Workshop for Healthier
Communities
Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri - September 29, 2006
This is the first one-day event organized by the Cambio Center, in cooperation with Crowder College, MU Extension, and Missouri State University, to extend the annual conference to different regions of the state. This Workshop will address issues of health care, integration of youth, and employment verification. Please find details at the Workshop's website. Fellows Jim Wirth and Anne Dannerbeck will be two of the presenters.
Research News: Asset Accumulation Strategies in Three New
Settlement Communities
(USDA National Research Initiative Grant to Cambio
Center)
As we announced back in June, the Cambio Center obtained its first competitive grant for a three year research project (US$416,000). The research team is led by fellows Corinne Valdivia and Anne Dannerbeck, and involves also Steve Jeanetta, Keith Jamtgaard, and Domingo Martínez; work will start in September, 2006. The study will focus on the economic, social and cultural experiences of immigrants in three Missouri towns. More information is available in an MU Press Release. We are preparing a fact sheet about the project.
Huyen Pham's move
Cambio Center
fellow Huyen Pham (School of Law) has moved to Texas
Wesleyan University. She was of great help in organizing the
Civil Rights and legal sessions at the Cambio de Colores
conferences. Her academic knowledge and her goodwill will
be dearly missed. Let us wish her and her family the best in
their new endeavors.
Cambio de colores 2007 - Kansas City
A first organizational meeting was held at Kansas City (UMKC) back in July. We will start work shortly. We will send a message today requesting Cambio Center fellows to take part in the Planning Committee (some have already signed). Please note that all levels of commitment are needed and welcome.
New publications available at Cambio Center
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The following are Spanish and English versions of a resource book
about federal programs for sustainable agriculture, forestry,
entrepreneurship, conservation, and community development put
together by USDA. We have several copies available at the
Cambio Center, and we can send them to fellows by campus mail
as well:
Construyendo Mejores Lugares Rurales – USDA –Ago 2005 (142pp)
Building Better Rural Places – USDA –Aug 2004 (140pp). Also available in CD-ROM.
- Financial Access for Immigrants: Lessons from Diverse Perspectives – Federal reserve Bank of Chicago
- The Mizzou Latino Student Orientation – MU Multicultural Center & HALO
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Crossing the Border – Research from the Mexican
Migration Project – Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey (this will be with
Lisa, that order)
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Some external reports and papers of interest
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Anna Paulson, Audrey Singer, Robin Newberger, Jeremy Smith:
"Financial Access for Immigrants: Lessons from Diverse
Perspectives." Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and The
Brookings Institution, May 2006 (100 pp)
PDF version available (2Mb)
Executive summary and download:http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060504_financialaccess.htm
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Children of Immigrants: Facts and Figures (The Urban Institute)
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900955_children_of_immigrants.pdf
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Gender and Migration
Pew Hispanic Center's report that examines the gender composition of migration to the U.S.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=64
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Roberto Suro and Gabriel Escobar: "2006 National Survey of Latinos -
The Immigration Debate"
Pew Hispanic Center's report on Latinos' perceptions and attitudes about the current political climate
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=68
(Check also the comparative tables at: http://pewhispanic.org/files/other/68.1.pdf) -
Glenn Flores, M.D.: "Language Barriers to Health Care in the United
States"
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/3/229 -
"Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native
Born"
Pew Hispanic Center's report showing that rapid increases in the foreign-born population at the state level are not associated with negative effects on the employment of native-born workers.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=69 - Flora, C.B. 2006. "Immigrants as Assets." Rural Development News. 28:3:1-3.http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/rdev/newsletter/Vol28No3-2006/immigrants.htm
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Ernesto López-Córdova y Alexandra Olmedo: "International Remittances
and Development: Existing Evidence, Policies and
Recommendations," Inter-American Development Bank, 2006
http://www.iadb.org/intal/detalle_publicacion.asp?idioma_pub=eng&idioma=eng&cid=234&pid=337&tid=8