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On March 31 and April 1, 2006, the University of Tennessee sponsored an
inter-disciplinary,
intercultural conference about the changing demographics of our state and
about the new opportunities and challenges posed for receiving communities
by the arrival of newcomers from Latin America.
Read a review of the conference from Charlene Helmuth
in AmeriQuests,
Volume 2, No. 1, 2005.
Attendees:
- Faculty and students from UTK and other colleges and
universities in the
area
- Local professionals whose practices are
affected by the
new immigration
- Members of the wider community in Knoxville
and East
Tennessee
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Focus on:
- Latina/Latino immigration to Tennessee
and
to other "new
destination" locations, such as the traditionally
non-Latino Southeast and small-town/rural areas in the Midwest.
Issues to discuss and questions we will ask:
- Impacts on receiving communities
- Impacts on sending communities
- What professionals in Tennessee need to know to
perform competently and ethically in this new environment
- Policy questions and justice issues we all face
as a result of these new developments
- Distinguished keynote speakers:
- Dr. Alejandro
Portes, Professor
of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at
Princeton University
- Dr. Raúl Delgado Wise, Director of the Doctoral
Program in Migration Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas,
Mexico.
- Also:
- Research panels
- Film screening
- Policy roundtable
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Featuring:
- University researchers
- Community advocates
- Documentarists
- Policy-makers
- Professionals from Tennessee, the Southeast, and the
nation.
- Continuing Education:
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