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Congrats to Antonia, NACCS Scholar 2007!

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The National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS) is this week/end….and will feature the 2007 NACCS Scholar Award for Dr. Antonia Castaneda’s “lifetime of scholarly achievements, longstanding commitment to NACCS and its future development, unwavering dedications towards undergraduate students, graduate students, young scholars and colleagues. A professor at St. Mary’s University in Texas, Castañada … Read more

ASU renames dept: Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies

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The recently expanded and renamed Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at ASU focuses on U.S. and Mexican regional immigration policy and economy, media literature and arts, and transborder community development and health – areas that have a significant impact in the Latino community.

“In the first decade of the 21st century, 40 percent of the U.S. Mexican-origin population was born in Mexico,” says Velez-Ibanez. “Moreover, Mexican Americans now live in every state of the union, and large numbers of other Latino groups now live in close proximity to what were formerly nearly exclusive Mexican urban concentrations in cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and others.”

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AAHE Hispanic [sic] dissertation competition

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The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education has launched an outstanding dissertation competition “open to anyone who has completed a dissertation that focuses on hispanics in higher education OR to any hispanic that who has completed a dissertation in the social sciences, broadly defined, between June 1, 2004 and August 1, 2007.” First place … Read more

L.A. Conference: Stop Guatemalan femicide

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On March 21st and 22nd, 2007, MuJER and Loyola Marymount University will be hosting an international conference in Los Angeles on the violent murders of women in Guatemala which has surpassed 2,500 since 2001. (Amnesty International) The purpose of the conference is to create a safe space to lecture and debate the femicide, its theories, … Read more

Fellowship: Postdoc for Analyses of U.S. Latino Dynamics

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NATIONAL HISPANIC INSTITUTE ESTABLISHES POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FOR ANALYSES OF U.S. LATINO DYNAMICS

March 12, 2007: The National Hispanic Institute recently established a competitive twelve month postdoctoral fellowship for analyses of social and organizational dynamics exhibited by regional Latino communities throughout the United States. The intent of this fellowship is to promote new knowledge about salient trends occurring throughout various strata of the U.S. Latino community.

The application deadline for the NHI Postdoctoral Fellowship for Analyses of U.S. Latino Dynamics is Monday March 26, 2007.

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Diss Award: Latino Studies, LatAm Studies Assoc

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2007 Call for Nominations and submissions:The Latino Studies Section (LSS) of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) announces its 2007 Research and Dissertation Award and invites nominations and submissions. The LSS Research and Dissertation Award is given for the best doctoral dissertation, in English or in Spanish that focuses on Latina/o communities, issues, and topics. Preference will be given to dissertations that apply a comparative approach within national, hemispheric and/or international contexts and to those that explore Latina/o social movements and activism to enhance our understanding of the Latina/o experience. The work may be grounded in any disciplinary field. The competition is open to Ph.D.’s from institutions in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean who deposited their dissertation in 2006-2007.

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Great general references on immigration costs & impact

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Borrowed directly from Texas journalist Marissa Trevino of Latina Lista: The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children released the most in-depth and impartial study on family immigrant detention titled “Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families” (2007), finding: [the detention center] is a former criminal facility that still looks and feels like … Read more