Mark your calendar for June 5-7! Cambio de Colores is back, and it is a conference you don’t want to miss. This professional development opportunity is a great time to share and learn about research and promising practices on the integration of Latines/Hispanics and immigrants in new destinations.

The theme for 2024 — Sparking Change, Integration, and Deep Connections — renews our call to action and commitment to learn alongside leaders and experts from our changing communities. Come join us!

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Migrantes Unidos is a mutual support group of over 100 asylum seekers from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean who have harnessed their time together toward collective action against the use of ankle monitors and other forms of detention in immigration enforcement. This group is centered among a supportive team of service providers, researchers, and advocates who are committed to positioning asylum seekers as critical thinkers and leaders who have produced three main forms of practical knowledge: 1) the physical and mental toll of ankle monitors and other immigration surveillance tactics that are inappropriately referred to as “Alternatives to Detention;” 2) collective strategies to prevent harm on oneself and others; and, 3) core values and priorities in creating reciprocal partnerships between academics and non-academics to pursue justice. These forms of knowledge embedded in practice and rooted in action have advanced current public understanding of race, justice, and dignity in the social sciences and humanities as well as public policy and religious practice.

Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney is an Associate Professor at Purdue and holds a courtesy appointment in Asian American Studies program. Her research focuses on the intersections between language learning, gender, and race and how this informs the identity acts of educators of multilingual communities. Guided by critical and feminist thought, she examines how these overlapping identities inform the logics of educational decision making for multilingual families. She has studied the Lau case and how it was developed, experienced, and implemented by the Chinese American community of San Francisco, representing the original history and voice of Lau. She has a forthcoming book on the Chinese perspective of Lau with Multilingual Matters in August 2024.