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Topic:Migration and Migrants
Migration is transforming the social fabric and economies of both the United States and Mexico. Today over 12 million Mexicans live in the United States and roughly one-third of all immigrants to the United States come from Mexico. While immigration produces net benefits to the U.S. economy as a whole, the rapid pace of immigration and the unauthorized status of so many immigrants pose specific challenges for integration, wage competition, and labor rights. And while Mexican migrants send roughly $24 billion back home in remittances, there is no question that the loss of so many of the country's most entrepreneurial citizens represents a net loss for Mexico's competitiveness. The United States faces major challenges for reforming its outdated immigration laws, while Mexico faces challenges for finding ways of providing opportunities for its citizens to stay at home.
At the same time, immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America are transforming U.S. communities - and often their communities of origin as well - through new practices of civic and political engagement. The Wilson Center has major projects that explore both policies towards immigrants and the ways that immigrants themselves are transforming their communities.
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News
Mexico Portal on Migration and Migrants
.JPG) Up-to-date information on U.S.-Mexico migration, U.S. immigration policy, and the civic and political participation of Latino immigrants can be found on the Mexico Portal on Migration and Migrants.
Latino Migrant Civic and Political Participation
The Latino Migrant Civic and Political Participation
webpage features new reports produced, as well as background information collected, as part of the Mexico Institute's study of the practices of civic engagement and political participation of Latino immigrants in the United States.
Publications
 Charlotte: A Welcome Denied
Author: Joyce Deaton
Report 1 in Series on Latino Migrant Civic Engagement
Click here to Download File in English or in Spanish.
 "Mobilizing Latino Immigrant Integration: From IRCA to the Ya Es Hora Citizenship Campaign, 1987-2007"
Author: David Ayón
Research Paper, Project on Latino Migrant Civic and Political Participation
Click here to Download File (pdf).
 Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States
Author: Xóchitl Bada, Jonathan Fox and Andrew Selee
Co-published by the Wilson Center and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Click here to Download File (pdf).
 Al Fin Visibles: La presencia cívica de los migrantes mexicanos en los Estados Unidos
Author: Xóchitl Bada, Jonathan Fox and Andrew Selee
Co-publicado con la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz.
Click here to Download File (pdf).
 U.S.-Mexico Policy Bulletin: Immigration and the 2006 Elections
Author: David Ayón
Click here to Download File (pdf).
 U.S.-Mexico Policy Bulletin: Building Civil Society Among Indigenous Migrants
Author: Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Click here to Download File (pdf).
 The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
Edited by Philippa Strum and Andrew Selee
Click here to Download File (pdf).
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Events
Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement Trends
Friday, June 26 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Xóchitl Bada, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jonathan Fox, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Óscar Chacón, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities; Marcelo Gaete, Vice-President of Public and Governmental Affairs, Entravision; Former Senior Director of Programs, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ Educational Fund; Esther Olavarría, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute; Claudio Sánchez, Correspondent, National Public Radio; Alice Bennett, Associate Organizer, Helping Empower Local People (CHARLOTTE);Teresa Castellanos, Interim Director, Office of Human Relations, County of Santa Clara (California) (SAN JOSE); Ricardo Gambetta, Manager of Inclusive Communities Program, National League of Cities; Former Executive Director, Mayor's Commission on Latino Affairs, City of Indianapolis; Luvia Quiñones, Associate Director, New Americans Initiative, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (CHICAGO); Michael Klein, MEChA student representative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (LAS VEGAS); Myrna Martínez, Director, Pan Valley Institute, American Friends Service Committee (FRESNO); Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Project Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California, Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Florencio I. Zaragoza, President, Fundación México (TUCSON); Lourdes Gouveia, Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha (OMAHA); David Ayón, Senior Research Associate, Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University; Israel Fuentes, President, El Comité de Unidad Guatemalteco/Guatemalan Unity Committee (LAS VEGAS); Juan José González, New Americans Democracy Project, ICIRR (CHICAGO); Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (LOS ANGELES); Robert Donnelly, Program Associate, Mexico Institute
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Renewing the Partnership between the United States and Mexico: Shared Responsibility and Shared Strategies
Monday, June 08 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico; José Antonio Fernández, Chair and CEO, FEMSA; Roger Wallace, Vice President, Pioneer Natural Resources; Maria Echaveste, President, Nueva Vista and former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton; Carlos Heredia, Researcher, CIDE and former Congressman; Jim Kolbe, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates and former Congressman; Jim Jones, President, Manatt Jones and former Ambassador to Mexico; Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental y Asociados & former Deputy Foreign Minister; Javier Treviño, Vice President, Cemex and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Philip Bennett, Senior Advisor, Washington Post Group and former Managing Editor, Washington Post; Roderic Ai Camp, McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College; Luís de la Calle, Founding Partner of De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. (CMM); Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Vice President, Grupo Editorial Expansión; Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, Center for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami; Diana Negroponte, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Peter Smith, Simon Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies, UCSD; Raúl Rodríguez Barocio, Chair, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University and former Director, NADBank
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Day II - Immigration: Social and Cultural Capital
Friday, April 17 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(This event will take place in Barcelona)
Marc Hatzfield sociologist and lecturer, École d’Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Andrei Korobkov Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middle Tennessee State University; Loren Landau Research Coordinator, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Blair Ruble Director, Kennan Institute and the Comparative Urban Studies Project, WWICS
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Immigration: Social and Cultural Capital
Thursday, April 16 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(This event took place in Barcelona)
Kate Brick Master's candidate, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Lamin Cham Immigration Specialist; Marc Hatzfield sociologist and lecturer, École d’Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Andrei Korobkov Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middle Tennessee State University; Loren Landau Research Coordinator, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Josep Ramoneda Director, Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona; Gaspar Rivera-Salgado Director of Projects, Institute for Research in Labour and Employment, University of California at Los Angeles; Eunice Romero Political Scientist; Blair Ruble Director, Kennan Institute and the Comparative Urban Studies Project, WWICS; Andrew Selee Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Mostafà S'haimi community organizer; Pep Subirós writer and philospher; José Walter Tejada member of the Arlington County Board (USA)
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U.S. Policy Towards Mexico: Opportunities and Challenges
Tuesday, February 24 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
with Harriet C. Babbitt, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States; James Jones, Chairman, Manatt Jones Global Strategies, and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Member of Congress; and Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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