April 25, 2003
10 am - 5:30 pm
 
Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America

WELCOME

José Itzigsohn & Hilary Silver
 

10-10:30   INTRODUCTION

"New Immigrants in Urban New England: Demographic Transformations in the 1990s"
Hilary Silver, Brown University
email: Hilary_Silver@brown.edu
 

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I.   IMMIGRATION AND THE NEW URBAN DYNAMICS

10:35-12:00   SESSION 1
IMMIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE CHANGING FACE OF NEW ENGLAND CITIES

"Immigrants, Tourism, and the Marketing of Metropolitan Boston"
(PDF: 116kb)
Marilyn Halter, Boston University
email: mhalter@bu.edu
 
"Local City: Global People: New Perspectives on Migrant Simultaneity"
(PDF: 97kb)
Nina Glick-Schiller, University of New Hampshire
email: ngs@cisunix.unh.edu
 
""New Immigration on the Rim of the New York Gateway: New Haven."
Douglas Rae, Yale University
email: douglas.rae@yale.edu
 

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12:00-1:30   LUNCH

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II.   RACIAL AND ETHNIC FORMATIONS IN URBAN NEW ENGLAND

1:30-2:30   SESSION 2
THE NEW BLACK COMMUNITIES

"Haitians in Boston: New Immigrants and New Blacks in an Old Immigrant City"
(PDF: 74kb)
Regine Ostine Jackson, University of Richmond, and Harvard University
email: rjackson@wjh.harvard.edu
 
"The Somalis of Lewiston: An Illustrative Case Study on the Municipal Impacts of Rapid Secondary Migrant Arrivals in a Rural Community"
(PDF: 308kb)
Phil Nadeau, Assistant City Administrator, Lewiston, ME
email: pnadeau@ci.lewiston.me.us
 

2:30-3:30   SESSION 3
THE NEW ASIAN COMMUNITIES

"The Cambodian-Americans of Lowell, Massachusetts: A Cautionary Tale of New Immigrant and Refugee Political Incorporation"
(PDF: 104kb)
Jeffrey Gerson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
email: jgerson1@attbi.com
 
"Asia on Main Street: Recent immigration to Worcester, MA in New England perspective"
(PDF: 1,528kb)
Robert J.S. Ross, Clark University
email: rross@clarku.edu
 

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3:30-3:45   COFFEE BREAK

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3:45-4:40   SESSION 4
THE NEW LATINO COMMUNITIES OF NEW ENGLAND

"The Demographic Transformation of the Hartford Metro Area: Hispanics and the Baby Boom Generation, 1980-2000"
(PDF: 619kb)
Michael Paul Sacks, Trinity College
email: michael.sacks@trincoll.edu
 
"Mexican and Puerto Rican Relations in Holyoke, MA" (tentative title)
Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
 
"The Making of Latino Providence"
(PDF: 84kb)
José Itzigsohn, Brown University
email: Jose_Itzigsohn@brown.edu
 

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4:45-5:00   SESSION 5
THE NEW EUROPEANS: IRISH, POLISH, AND PORTUGESE IMMIGRATION

"Brazilians in New Bedford and Fall River"
(PDF: 102kb)
Maria Gloria Mulcahy
email: Maria_Gloria_Mulcahy@brown.edu
 
"Brazilians in the United States: A Study of Immigrants in Massachusetts"
(PDF: kb)
Ana Cristina Braga Martes
Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil
email: acbmartes@fgvsp.br
 

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5-5:30   CLOSING
DISCUSSION AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE