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The New Latino Immigration to Tennessee:
Opportunities and Challenges

UT Conference Center, 600 Henley St., Knoxville, TN 37902
March 31 - April 1, 2006


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Friday, March 31, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 - Registration and check-in opens (all conference attendees)
8:00 - 8:30 - Continental breakfast for nurses
8:30 - 12:00 - Pre-Conference Session for Nurses

9:30 - 12:00 - Pre-Conference Session for Librarians
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 - Welcome to Conference
1:15 - 2:45 - Opening Keynotes
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
Raúl Delgado Wise, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico
Jon Shefner, Sociology and Community Studies, UTK, Moderator 2:45 - 3:00 - Break
3:00 - 4:30 - Research Panel #1 - "New Destinations in the Southeast"
4:30 - 4:45 - Break
4:45 - 6:15 - Research Panel #2 - "Immigrant Encounters with Receiving Communities"
6:15 - 7:15 - Buffet Reception
7:15 - 9:15 - Screening of Documentary Video and Discussion

Saturday, April 1, 2006
8:30-10:15 - Practitioner Panel on Challenges for Professionals in "New Destinations"
10:15-10:30 - Break
10:30-12:00 - Concurrent Sessions 12:00-12:20 - Box Lunch Break

12:20 - 1:20 - Update on Federal Immigration Law
Marielena Hincapié, National Immigration Law Center
1:20 - 1:30 - Break
1:30 - 3:00 - Concurrent Sessions
3:00 - 3:30 - Break (with opportunity for media interviews prior to policy roundtable)

3:30 - 5:30 - Policy Roundtable - "Immigration Policy from Local to Global: Debates, Hot Topics, Action"





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