TRANSNATIONALISM RESEARCH CLEARINGHOUSE

Highlights III

April 2005

Upcoming Events & Courses

Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe. European Summer School, Fifth Edition, “European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum,” July 4-15, Belgium. Un Réseau coordonné par l'Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio de México, la Sociedad Mexicana de Demografía y la organización Sin Fronteras. Seminario Permanente sobre Migración Internacional, 2005. Mayo 13: Michele Shedlin, "Nuevas comunidades de inmigrantes hispanos y el riesgo del VIH (Fase II)" y David Fitzgerald, "La ‘iglesia-nación’ y el reto de la emigración: políticas migratorias católicas en México, 1920-2004".
Información sobre los Seminarios Permanentes

References & Documents

Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC). “Founded in 1979, the IRC is a small but dynamic nonprofit policy studies center whose overarching goal is to help forge a new global affairs agenda for the U.S. government and people-one that makes the United States a more responsible global leader and partner”.

Americas Program, IRC. Section on ‘Issues’: Citizen Action in the Americas; U.S.-Mexico Relations/Border Affairs; Trade, the Environment, Integration & Development; U.S. Policy in Latin America / Interamerican Relations; Plan Puebla-Panama; Migration and Immigration.
(1) Issue: “U.S.-Mexico Relations/Border Affairs,” several authors, short articles, reports, 2001-2005, English and/or Spanish.
(2) Issue: “Migration and Immigration,” several authors, short articles, reports, 2001-2005, English and/or Spanish

Botto, Mercedes (2004) "Los nuevos regionalismos y la accion colectiva transnacional" en Revista Perfiles Latinoamericanos, Numero 24 (diciembre 2004), pags. 9 a 43.

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego. Publications, anthologies: (1) “Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States.” Edited by Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, 2004. (2) “Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants.” Edited by Jeffrey G. Reitz, 2003. (3) “Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective,” 2nd edition. Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield, 2004. Monograph: “The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy.” By Marc R. Rosenblum, 2004.

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego. Research Seminar Series. “Faith-Based Mobilization for Immigrant Rights,” Stephanie J. Nawyn, Georgetown University, and Joseph Palacios, University of Southern California. April 12, 2005.

Centro de Estudios Sociales y de Opinión Publica, Cámara de Diputados, México. Biografía completa y actualizada sobre migración y remesas. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos.

Chacón, Oscar, Aidé Rodríguez, and Amy Shannon. “Latino Immigrant Leaders Push for Immigration Reform,” Americas Program (Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center, June, 2004).

Chicano/a Studies, University of Texas at El Paso. An instructional & research program that is dedicated to the study of the Mexican origin population in the United States, its antecedents and salient contemporary social issues. Director: Dennis J.Bixler-Márquez, Ph.D.

Edgar, Jim, Doris Meissner, and Alejandro Silva (2004) “Keeping the Promise: Immigration Proposals from the Heartland,” The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago. .

Fox, Jonathan and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado. "Building Civil Society Among Indigenous Migrants," Americas Program (Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center, October 12, 2004). English Spanish

García-Zamora, Rodolfo (2005) “Los retos económicos de las organizaciones de migrantes mexicanos en los Estados Unidos: el caso de las Federaciones de Clubes Zacatecanos.” Ensayo presentado en el Seminario Problemas y Desafíos de la Migración y el Desarrollo en América, 7-9 de Abril, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.

Human Rights Watch. (2004) “Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants.” New York.

Mexican General Consulate in Chicago. ABC of the Mexican community in Chicago, its activities in the area, and its relationship with the Mexican government. Strong emphasis on Hometown Associations and State Federations.

Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The Second Cumbre of the Great Plains: “Re-Visioning Latino America: New Perspectives on Migration, Transnationalism and Integration.” April 22-24, 2005, Omaha, Nebraska.
Conference Program

Pew Hispanic Center. 1) Survey on Mexican Migrants.
Part One: Attitudes about Immigration and Major Demographic Characteristics Part Two: Attitudes about Voting in Mexican Elections and Ties to Mexico 2) Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population in the United States

Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. This Ford Foundation project is, by far, the best Mexican scholar creation that exposes high quality research on migration, development, and transnationalism, mostly from a Mexican perspective. A rich reference source of research, links, data, scholars, events, conferences, etc. on migration studies. Mostly Spanish.

Saenz, Rogelio (2005) “The Demography of Latino Immigration: Trends and Trajectories,” Power Point presentation, prepared for The Second Cumbre of the Great Plains: “Re-Visioning Latino America: New Perspectives on Migration, Transnationalism and Integration.” OLLAS, University of Nebraska at Omaha, April 22, 2005.

University of Texas at El Paso. Northern Mexico and the Mexico-U.S. Border Region, Selected Bibliography. Works by the following UTEP scholars: E. Aguirre, S. Barracca, D. Bixler-Marquez, H. Campbell, I. Coronado, L. Fernandez, T. M. Fullerton Jr., E. Hampton, J. McC Heyman, and K. Staudt.