Little attention has been paid to immigrants who have lived here legally and have taken the steps necessary to become citizens – full Americans – but who are stuck in processing backlogs – sometimes at great cost to their families, careers, and their opportunity to exercise the most sacred right of citizenship, the right to vote. Read more…
Faced with a void of information on this rapidly growing population, the UAO study will shed light on the assets, needs, and composition of Illinois’ African immigrant and refugee community. Read more…
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group that worked with Gov. Blagojevich to craft the executive order, has played a lead role in fostering integration initiatives in other states. Read more…
With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention.Three accepted.
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group that worked with Gov. Blagojevich to craft the executive order, has played a lead role in fostering integration initiatives in other states. Read more…
We were represented by a team as diverse as our nation is, and our Team USA was not divided by skin color, last name, religion, native language, country of origin or English proficiency. Instead for this moment it represented all the united skill, spirit, talent and determination that define America. Read more…
With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention.Three accepted.
Several years of social work practice with Latino immigrants in CBO’s. Research related to the impact of migration on families. She developed a migration studies specialization to prepare social work students for practice with immigrant families.
