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Conference – Immigrant Integration in the 21st Century: The Role of Immigrants in American Society

Co-sponsored by the Merage Foundation for the American Dream and the Wilson Center's Comparative Urban Studies Project, the Divisison of United States Studies, and the Latin American Program.

Date & Time

Tuesday
Jun. 5, 2007
2:00pm – 4:00pm ET

Overview

With presentations by:

Dr. Frank Bean
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration, Population, and Public Policy: University of California at Irvine

Michael Fix
Vice President and Director of Studies, Migration Policy Institute; Washington, DC

Doris Meissner
Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute; Washington, DC

Former State Senator Steven Rauschenberger (R-Illinois)
Principal, Rauschenberger Partners

The mission of the Merage Foundation for the American Dream is to encourage Americans to recognize and celebrate immigrants' contributions to the United States. Noting that immigrants are important social and political actors in American society, the colloquium will seek to explore further the ways in which policy and participation have impacted the immigrant experience.

Conference Room, 5th Floor
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (Ronald Reagan Building)

Please allow extra time for security; a picture ID is required. Admission to the discussion and the reception are free but seating is limited. Please RSVP to usstudies@wilsoncenter.org.

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Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities.  Read more

Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

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