The Carnegie Corporation grant will support Americas Society’s new project to increase public awareness of the role of the private sector in Hispanic immigrant integration and highlight Hispanics’ contributions to the U.S. economy.
AS/COA speaks with Colorado Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll about why his state has been “ground zero” for anti-immigrant legislation and how this has adversely affected Colorado. Carroll, an ordained minister and practicing attorney, also focuses on the lessons to be learned at a national level from the Colorado experience.
Migrants, who are 30 percent more likely to start a business than non-immigrants, can play a crucial role in reinvigorating the U.S. economy, according to this first article in Western Union’s three-part series.
Luis Pastor of the Latino Community Credit Union in North Carolina talked with AS/COA's Hispanic Integration Initiative about financial literacy programs geared toward immigrants.
The winners of the Migration Policy Institute’s E Pluribus Unum Awards, given to organizations engaged in outstanding integration initiatives, represent just some of the many local efforts to promote immigrant integration throughout the country.
At an AS/COA launch for The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, the book's editors joined Cuban experts in discussing the Cuban diaspora and the implications of the U.S. embargo. This book will be reviewed in the Summer 2009 Americas Quarterly.
In the first of its series looking at Hispanic immigrant integration in emerging gateway cities, AS/COA explores how radio and print media can help inform immigrants on topics like public safety and health care.
