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Duke Series on Child Development and Public Policy Conference Sponsored by the Center for Child and Family Policy
Immigrant Families in America: Multidisciplinary
Views on the 21st Century
May 19-20, 2006
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
Additional Readings
Axel Lluch, director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs for the Office of the Governor and one of the moderators of the conference, has provided the names of two publications that would be of interest to those who attended the conference.
The Economic Impact of the Hispanic Population on the State of North Carolina, was compiled by a group of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The link for the site where you can read the report is: <http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/ki/reports/2006_HispanicStudy/>.
Going to Carolina del Norte: Narrating Mexican Migrant Experiences, by Hannah Hill, an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <http://www.ucis.unc.edu/programs/celaya.htm>
Immigrant Families in America: Multidisciplinary Views on the 21st Century will bring together an outstanding and diverse group of scholars working at the cutting edge of theory, research, intervention and policy devoted to immigrant families in the United States and Canada. Part of a provost-sponsored initiative, the Duke Series on Child Development and Public Policy, the material for the conference will also be compiled in an edited volume to be published by Guilford Press.
The conference will be organized around four major themes:
1. Family relationships, acculturation, and the demography, sociology, and economics of immigration;
2. Perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and social work on parent-child relationships in immigrant families;
3. The role of health care, the law, education, and parents' work in relationships within immigrant families;
4. Interventions and policies to promote positive adjustment in immigrant families.
Individuals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds such as pediatrics, law, social work, education, psychology, sociology, economics and anthropology will present work at the cutting edge of their respective fields.
Presentations will be grouped thematically across disciplines, and each set of presentations will be followed by time for discussion among the presenters and audience. Policymakers and others with the power to put the group's ideas into practice will play an integral role in the meeting. One goal of the conference is to end with a list of the top 10 recommendations for policymakers in relation to immigrant families.
If you have questions about the conference, registration, etc., please contact Erika Layko in the Center for Child and Family Policy, 919-613-7303 or ehlayko@duke.edu.
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