April 16, 2004
9 am - 6:30 pm
 
Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America

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BREAKFAST

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9:15-10:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

José Itzigsohn, Brown Uiversity
(Email: jose_itzigsohn@brown.edu)

Hilary Silver, Brown Uiversity
(Email: hilary_silver@brown.edu)
 

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10:00-10:30 AM  

New Immigrants in Urban New England: Demographic Transformations and Urban Change

Hilary Silver, Brown University
(Email: Hilary_Silver@brown.edu)
 

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COFFEE BREAK

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10:45-12:15 PM   THE NEW ASIAN COMMUNITIES

"Chinese Americans in Quincy and Malden, Massachusetts: More Challenges Than Successes" (PDF: 63kb)

Richard Chi-Kan Hung, University of Massachusetts-Boston
 
"Cambodian-American Politics in Lowell, MA Since 1999" (PDF: 110kb)

Jeffrey Gerson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
 
"Asia comes to Main Street and may learn to speak Spanish: Globalization in a poor neighborhood in Worcester" (PDF: 211kb)

Robert J.S. Ross, Clark University
 

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12:15-1:15 PM   LUNCH

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1:15-2:45 PM   THE NEW BLACK AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

"Mestizo Hartford: Refugee Communities Negotiating the Urban Borderlands." (PDF: 47kb)

Janet Bauer, Trinity College
 
"The Somalis of Lewiston: Municipal Impacts of Rapid Secondary Migrant Arrivals"

Phil Nadeau, Lewiston, ME
(Note: author cannot attend, revised paper will be discussed)
 
"Haitians in Boston: New Immigrants and New Blacks in an Old Immigrant City " (PDF: 236kb)

Regine Ostine Jackson, Emory University
 

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2:45-3:00 PM   BREAK

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3:00-4:45 PM   THE NEW LATINO COMMUNITIES OF NEW ENGLAND

"New Mexican Immigration on the Rim of the New York Gateway: New Haven." (PDF: 603kb)

Douglas Rae, Yale University (in abstentia) and Jackie Olvera, Connecticut College
 
"The Growth and Redistribution of the Hispanic Population in the Hartford Metropolitan Area, 1980-2000" (PDF: 600kb)

Michael Sacks, Trinity College
 
"Building Latino Communities in Providence, RI"

Jose Itzigsohn, Brown University
(Email: jose_itzigsohn@brown.edu)
 

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4:45-5:00 PM   BREAK

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5:00-5:30 PM   PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COMMUNITIES

"Transnational Institutions and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Brazilians in Boston" (PDF: 99kb)

Ana Cristina Braga Martes, Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil
(Email: acbmartes@fgvsp.br)

(Note: author cannot attend - revised paper will be discussed)
 
"Brazilians and Portuguese in New Bedford and Fall River" (PDF: 86kb)

Maria Gloria Mulcahy, Brown University
(Email: maria_gloria_mulcahy@brown.edu)
 

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5:30-6:00 PM   IMMIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE CHANGING FACE OF NEW ENGLAND CITIES

"Local City, Global People: New Perspectives on Migrant Simultaneity" (PDF: 86kb)

Nina Glick-Schiller and Thad Gunderson, University of New Hampshire
 

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6-6:30 PM   CLOSING DISCUSSION AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE