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Here you'll find profiles
of New Routes leaders
and articles featuring project partners
and participants at eight sites
across the United States.
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as an archive of the work
of New Routes to Community Health.
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Tomas R. Jimenez, assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego and Irving Fellow at the New American Foundation writes that "Assimilation is a multigenerational... read more
Immigrants are far less likely than the average U.S. native to commit crime in California, according to this issue of California Counts. For example, among... read more
“Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. ET http://www.kaisernetwork.org/todaystopics/12mar08
Immigration and health care rank among the top issues for voters in the 2008 presidential election. On... read more
Each year, nearly 6,000 workers die on the job in the United States. They fall from scaffoldings, get pulled into industrial machines or are exposed... read more
A photo collection from the New York Times reminds us of what our sisters and brothers are suffering in Sudan as scorched-earth tactics are renewed... read more
Wendy NcNaughton of Underground Advertising, Jill Shenker of La Raza Centro Legal, and Suzanne Teran of UC Berkeley Labor and Occupational Health Program hosted New... read more
I'm excited to be going to the NTEN Conference in New Orleans at the end of March where I hope to learn tons about using... read more
San Francisco Bay Area project leaders met today at the Bay Area Video Coalition offices in San Francisco during a 3-day site visit by New... read more
2 Somali Bantu refugees freed from jail
By Ernesto Portillo Jr.
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.26.2008
Two Somali Bantu political refugees were released... read more
Doug McGill writes about his experience as a mainstream journalist working outside the newsroom and along with other journalists and meeting up with citizen journalists... read more
Despite a 2002 promise from President Bush to put citizenship applications for immigrant members of the military on a fast track, some are finding themselves... read more
Imagine a place where immigrants gather to learn new job skills. See immigrant elders in a classroom learning English to prepare for citizenship tests. Watch... read more
I read a poem today that opened my mind. And the ideas I encountered have stayed with me. This poem, by Alice Walker, touches on... read more
How do immigrants to this country view the messy process of democracy? What would they like to bring home to their own countries? In the... read more
By Helen Briggs, Science reporter, BBC News, Boston. Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has... read more
PHOENIX — The police in this city at the center of the immigration
debate will soon ask all people arrested whether they are in the United
States... read more
Jobless rate four times higher than in Filipino or Canadian-born populations
Charles Lewis,
National Post; Canwest News Service
Published: February 14, 2008 1:30 am
TORONTO
- Immigrants from Africa are... read more
I clicked on the link to Nomadsland site and I found it hard to stop watching the video clips that run on the home page.... read more
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, February 13, 2008. “The vote, a major victory for the White House, would also give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated... read more
Feb 1, 2008.
“A report released today by independent health care ratings company HealthGrades suggests that Medicare patients receiving treatment at the top 5 percent of... read more
“Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is seeking permission from the federal government to expand the state's immigration enforcement powers.” (Source: Judith Davidoff in The Capital... read more
According to the UN, the worst catastrophe in Africa is not taking place in Kenya, or even Darfur. Fifteen years after the disastrous Black Hawk... read more
Feb. 10, 2008, 11:36AM
Obama says "Yes, We Can!" but among Hispanic voters, can he?
By PAULINE ARRILLAGA
AP National Writer
© 2008 The Associated Press
PHOENIX —
His rallying cry... read more
Would you like to know what bloggers are saying about immigrants and immigration? Use Technorati. Go to technorati.com, put "immigrants" or "immigration" in the search... read more
Kamau is founder and executive director of The African Immigrants and Refugees Foundation. She gives her views on the violence in Kenya in a February... read more
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