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Secretariat of the First
Latin American Community Migrant Summit
May 2007; Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
The results of the Migrant Summit are available at www.migrantsummit.org along with photos from the event. Additional information on follow up to the Migrant Summit process will be made available on the Migrant Summit website and will be maintained by the International Planning Committee for the Migrant Summit.
Enlaces América
bids farewell...
but work moves forward
Project closes on January 31, 2008
When we launched the Enlaces América project in 2002, we hoped that our efforts as adviser, facilitator, and support center for Latino immigrant organizations might someday culminate in a vibrant transnational network of Latino immigrants. We also dreamed of creating an international space where immigrant leaders could exchange ideas and learn from one another. Although these seemed like distant dreams six years ago, I am delighted to report that they both have come true.
The National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) is rapidly consolidating as a transnational voice for Latino immigrants, firmly rooted in its community-based membership. The very first Latin American Migrant Community Summit was held last year in Mexico, with more than 1,000 participants from more than 20 countries Meanwhile, our host organization, the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights has greatly expanded its own international work, bringing its expertise on protection of human rights and integrated mental and physical health to regions suffering from violent conflict and poverty.
The energy and dynamism of NALACC and the Migrant Summit have far exceeded our hopes. Both these initiatives have moved beyond the stage of needing an “incubator” space such as Enlaces América. Therefore, we have decided to formally close the Enlaces América project, as of January 31, 2008. We urge you to stay in touch by visiting the NALACC and Migrant Summit websites and by subscribing to the NALACC blog, coming soon at www.perspectivasmigrantes.org.
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Stay Informed!Enlaces América's core programming around capacity-building and training will be taken up by the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), which will also be an ongoing source of information on the links between migration and globalization. Connect to the NALACC website.
October 26-27, 2007; Chicago, IL: In collaboration with NALACC, Enlaces served as the local host and convener of the Dialogue on Transnational Activism--"Latin American Migrants: Civic and Political Participation in a Binational Context," sponsored by the Mexico Institute of the Wilson Center for International Scholars.
To view the Rapporteur's report and commissioned papers, and to listen to audio recordings from the event on the NALACC website, click here
To learn more about other initiatives related to Latino Migrant Civic and Political Participation from the Wilson Center, click here.
Aug. 2007: Read our last Newsletter!
July 20th, 2007: Check out Enlaces America Director Amy Shannon's article in a newly published book on the "3 x 1" program. Amy's article is titled "Transnational Organizations as Engines of Local Development: Opportunities and Challenges of the '3 x 1' Program" Faced by Migrants." Read it here.
