New fellows
“My research areas are second and foreign language learning, language
teaching and pragmatics. I think that my lines of investigation and
collaboration with Cambio Center can contribute to the development of
new knowledge and teaching practices. Also, I hope that my experience
and participation in future research projects can be beneficial to the
Hispanic and Latino Community in Missouri.”
·
Iván Reyna, Assistant Professor of Spanish
“I am
especially interested in the ways in which alternative and marginal
discourses are created by Latino newcomers during the process of
interacting with their new reality. I think that a
good understanding of these discourses would facilitate our
understanding of the Latino community in Missouri and vice versa.”
Available for fellows
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Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas & Stephen C. Jeanetta: Cambio de Colores. Immigration of Latinos to Missouri, MU Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002.
For the fellows that need a copy of that breakthrough publication
(proceedings of the first Cambio de Colores conference, still current
in many respects), we have found a few extra copies that we can send
to you via campus mail. Please send a note to Christiane Quinn
(QuinnC@Missouri.edu) if you
need one.
Summer hours
The Cambio Center staff will be keeping the following hours through the end of the summer period: 7:30 AM – 4 PM.
Opportunities
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Call for Papers: Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a
Studies Conference
Friday & Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2008, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (FYI: this is a month before one of the dates being considered for
next year’s Cambio de Colores conference, but the topical areas are
wider and apply more to Latino studies in general than to
immigrant issues. Notwithstanding, the Cambio Center will be
present at that conference.—DM)
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2007.
Info:
http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/programs/latino_studies/
Quote: “This interdisciplinary conference adopts José Martí’s
expansive hemispheric conception of “America” to explore implications
of the growth of the U.S. Latino population at the cusp of the 21st
century—a century that has seen Latinos/as become the largest U.S.
ethnic minority. How have these shifting demographics affected
communities, labor, politics, education, and cultural production in
the U.S.?”
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Fulbright Scholar Grants to Spain
3-5 month lecturing or
research awards in many disciplines. Applications due in August 7,
2007.
Information:
http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2008/country/EuroSpaSP.htm
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U.S. Senate:
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act
(bill S. 1348)
Not actually a publication, but all the official information—including
the full text and proposed amendments—about the act currently
being discussed by the Senate.
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Pew Hispanic Center Report —Rick Fry:
How Far Behind in Math and Reading are English Language
Learners
The achievement analysis is based on the 2005 National Assessment of
Educational Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” and 35
state-administered assessments mandated by the No Child Left Behind
law. The report also uses demographic data, for the nation and for
some states, to analyze some of the characteristics of limited English
speaking students.
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Pew Hispanic Center factsheet:
Indicators of Recent Migration Flows from Mexico
The Mexican-born population in the U.S. has continued to increase but
the rate of growth appears to have slowed beginning in mid-2006. This
preliminary assessment is based on data that indirectly reflect the
pace of migration over time.
·
Gordon H. Hanson:
Emigration, Remittances and Labor Force Participation in
Mexico
Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean
(INTAL), Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, February 2007
(46 pp., PDF)
This paper, examines emigration, remittances, and labor-force
participation in Mexico during the 1990s. It uses two samples of
households for the analysis: (a) rural households in Mexico in 2000,
which vary according to whether they have sent migrants to the United
States or received remittances from the United States, and (b)
individuals in Mexico in 1990 and 2000 born in states with either
high-exposure or low-exposure to U.S. emigration. (Available only
online at Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the
Caribbean (INTAL), Inter American Development Bank:
http://www.iadb.org/intal/)
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National Center for Cultural Competence - Georgetown University
Center for Child and Human Development: “A Guide for Advancing Family-Centered and Culturally and
Linguistically Competent Care” (PDF 1.4 Mb)
Center site:
http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/