|
The University of
Missouri's Cambio Center leads
research and outreach on Latinos and
changing communities.
What you'll find in this
newsletter:
-
Cambio de Colores 2018: Call for
Presentations
- Cambio Center Fellows News
-
New Year, New Cambio Student
Assistants
- Two MU Course opportunities
-
2018 Health Insurance Dates and
Deadlines
- Other Resources
-
Support Graduate Student Research
|
|
Cambio de Colores 2018 Call for
Presentations
|
|
Cambio Center Fellows News
We share news about our fellows on
the Cambio Center Website, where you can find more details
about the updates provided below.
|
|
|
Cambio Center
Fellows Updates:
|
|
|
|
Fellow Dr. Sujin Kim reports on the
experiences of a Korean migrant
youth living in the U.S. in her
recently published article. The
article explores how the
translanguaging approach affords
a more comprehensive look into
the youth's literacy development
and identity work.
Kim, S. (2017). “It was kind of a given that
we were all multilingual”: Transnational youth identity
work in digital
translanguaging. Linguistics and Education.
|
|
|
Fellow Dr. Denise Adkinscontributed to (and helped
compile) a list of recent works
meant to help library and
information science (LIS)
instructors teach and promote
diversity, equality, and
inclusion in their curriculum.
The list is intended to serve as
a living document and the
authors encourage LIS educators,
professionals, and students to
use the resources in relevant
learning settings to further
promote values of diversity and
equality within the communities
they serve.
Tang, R., & Adkins, D. (2017). Diversity in LIS Education
Resources. Journal of Education for
Library and Information
Science, 58(4), 241-244.
|
|
|
|
Congratulations to student
fellow Aphiradee Wongsiri,
who successfully defended her dissertation on November 16, 2017! Her
dissertation title is "Examining
Forms of Capital: The
Satisfaction with the Education
and the Higher Education
Opportunities of the Children of
Latino Families in Three Rural
Communities in Missouri."
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to New Cambio Center
Student Communicators
Cristina Rivera Bosques,
(Journalism/Strategic Communications) –
Communications
Alejandro Alban (Masters in Industrial
Engineering) – Language Services
Program Coordinator
Maria Rodriguez Arroyo (Biological
Sciences) – Language Services Program
Julio Solares (Accountancy) – Language
Services Program
Mateo Mateo (Undeclared) –
Language Services Program
Paula Herrera (Undeclared) –
Language Services Program
Jacqueline Ledezma (Law) –
Language Services Program
|
|
|
MU Course Opportunities for Spring
2018
MU Spring 2018 Course: Language,
Literacy, Identity, and
Power
Spring 2018 LTC 8900 Language,
Literacy, Identity, and Power
Thursdays, 4:00-6:45, Room Townsend
Hall 204
Instructor: Angie Zapata, Ph.D
This doctoral level course serves as a
semester long investigation into
identity as a process of “becoming”
rather than a mode of “being.”
Students will examine how individuals
perform different subject positions,
such as gender, sexuality, race,
ethnicity, nationality, religion, and
socioeconomic class, through their
everyday ways with words, texts and
text-making processes, and shared
material spaces. See flyer to the
right. Please email Dr. Angie Zapata
at zapatam@missouri.edu for more information on this
course.
MU Spring 2018 Course: The
Cognitive Consequences of
Bilingualism
Spring 2018 CSD 4001 The Cognitive
Consequences of Bilingualism
3-credit undergraduate course; time
and location TBD.
This course is intended to establish
an understanding of bilingual language
processing and of the consequences of
bilingualism on cognition and the
neural networks that support it more
generally. Students will learn to
interpret behavioral and
electrophysiological measures of
language processing and to identify
patterns of language performance that
distinguish bilinguals from
monolinguals. For more
information, please contact Dr. Roxana
Botezatu at botezatum@health.missouri.edu.
|
|
2018 Health Insurance Dates &
Deadlines
|
|
|
|
You can enroll in or change 2018
Marketplace health insurance right now.
The 2018 Open Enrollment Period runs
from November 1, 2017 to December
15, 2017. If you don’t act by
December 15, you can’t get 2018 coverage
unless you qualify for a Special
Enrollment Period. Learn more
at Healthcare.gov.
|
|
The Role of Immigrants in Reviving
the Great Lakes Region
New research, which focuses on the
positive impacts immigrants have had on
the Great Lakes region's working-class
workers, was presented at the Welcoming Economies Global
Network. The research was sponsored by the
Partnership for a New American Economy
Research Fund and released by the New
American Economy and the Great Lakes
Metro Chambers Coalition. Read the full
research report here.
The Evolution of Canada’s Approach to
Immigrant Integration
An article from Migration Policy Institute provides a fascinating look at
how immigration to Canada has shaped
Canadian values, attitudes, and
multiculturalism over the years, and may
explain why Canada is often held up as a
model for soundly crafted immigration
policy. Read the article here.
DACA Recipient Who Calls The U.S.
Home
Read the moving story of Ana Garcia, one
of 3,000+ DACA recipients in
Missouri, here.
|
|
|
Support Student Research
through the Cambio Center
Research Fund
The Cambio Center Research Fund is used to support graduate
student research on Latinos and
immigrants. As friends of the Cambio
Center know, the research agenda
of the Cambio Center focuses on
applied research designed to improve
community well-being by better
understanding and supporting the
integration of newcomers and
immigrants. Students work in
partnership with an expert faculty
member during a semester, with clear
goals for outputs and results. All
funds raised will go directly towards
supporting the research efforts of
these students.
|
|
|
|
