Public Forum - Latinos and the 2010 U.S. Census The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, in collaboration with the Princeton Center for Migration and Development, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the University Center for Human Values will hold a public forum focusing on the role of Latinos in the forthcoming 2010 Census. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM at Princeton University.  The purpose of the forum is to promote dialogue and discussion about various positions taken by community leaders, representatives of Latino organizations, academics, and the public at large in relation to the implementation and effects of the 2010 Census on Latino individuals and families. In light of continued indifference and even hostility towards Latinos on the part of political figures and agencies, should Latinos be encouraged to boycott the 2010 Census as a gesture of defense and protestation?  Should they, on the contrary, insist on being counted to make their presence known, demand justice, and advocate for immigration reform?  These are the main questions the forum will broach.  Conference - What is Ailing U.S.? Health Care and Immigration: Access and Barriers This two-day conference will bring together top administrators, physicians, nurses, community activists, elected officials, and academics in a dialogue about key problems, solutions, and policy regarding health care provisions to underserved populations, including immigrants. The conference will (a) review obstacles in gaining access to health care; (b) define mechanisms and procedures that improve access in cost effective ways; (c) discuss evidence derived from empirical research regarding effective and failed health care provisions; and (d) craft policy implications and recommendations. It will be held on Friday, May 15, 2009 beginning at 8:30a in the Friend Center Convocation Room and is open to the public. Conference - No Margin for Error Under the auspices of the Mellon Foundation, in May 2007 this conference brought together a select group of specialists to discuss remarkable achievements in education and employment among second-generation immigrants who have experienced disadvantage in their formative years. Taken as a point of departure was ethnographic data yielded by a sample of 60 young men and women interviewed in 2006 as part of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), and those data were analyzed in light of critical research and insights contributed by the conference participants. Invited to the meeting were four of the young men and women interviewed for the study. Conference - The Good Samaritan in the Age of Globalization This two-day conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion in collaboration with the Center for Migration and Development took place March 29-30, 2007. The conference brought together a group of distinguished scholars, social thinkers, and activists to discuss the ethical practical dimensions in the relationship between contemporary religious practices and international migration. Workshop in Buenos Aires - Institutions and Development in Latin America This workshop was the culmination of the phase of this comparative study supported by Princeton's Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). It brought together research teams from three Latin American countries to present and discuss final reports on three institutions - the stock exchange, the postal service, and the civil aviation authority - studied with the same research methodology in each country. The event took place at the Institute for Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2006. The final reports plus a synthetic chapter of the main findings are being assembled for publication by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico and an unselected university press in the United States. Seminar - Immigration and the Arts Co-sponsored by Princeton's Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, this one-day seminar brought together some twenty scholars specializing in the visual and performing arts being developed by different immigrant communities in the United States. The seminar, organized by CMD faculty affiliate Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Princeton sociologist Paul DiMaggio, was held at the University in May 2006. Fernandez-Kelly and DiMaggio are currently editing the proceedings for book publication. Conference - The North American Free Trade Agreement and Beyond Timed to coincide with the twelfth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, this two-day conference cast a broad net on contemporary processes of economic adjustment and globalization. The event brought together economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, and historians from the United States and abroad to examine directly the impact of the NAFTA treaty as well as a number of other contemporary economic and political developments in the world today. The conference, co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), took place in December 2005. CMD faculty affiliate Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and University of Tennessee sociologist Jon Shefner were the co-organizers. They have edited conference proceedings in a forthcoming volume of the Annals of Political and Social Sciences (March 2007). Conference in Mexico - Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration In cooperation with the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), CMD sponsored a conference on "Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration" in Taxco, Mexico, in January 2005.  The conference complemented the successful dialogue held in May 2003 between U.S. and West European scholars (see next entry) with a similar encounter between specialists on migration from both sides of the border.  The conference was organized around eight jointly agreed themes.  In each session, a paper presented by a U.S.-based scholar was commented on by a Mexican counterpart and vice-versa.  As with the 2003 conference, proceedings of the event are in the process of publication by UNAM Press in Mexico City.