Immigration Data Briefing on April 19 -- April 16, 2004 -- California Capitol Hill Bulletin -- Volume 11, Bulletin 12

On Monday, April 19, 2004, the American Sociological Association & Population Association of America, in collaboration with the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, National Council of La Raza, and Population Resource Center, will present a briefing entitled "A Nation of Immigrants: Current Policy Debates Meet New Social Science Research." The briefing will be held at 11:30 a.m.on April 19 (with lunch served until 12 noon) in B-339 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

Presenters will include Dr. Rogelio Saenz of Texas A & M University and author of "Latinos and the Changing Face of America at the Turn of the Century;" Dr. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo of the University of Southern California and author of "Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence," Dr. Douglas S. Massey of Princeton University and co-author of "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration," and Dr. Victor Nee of Cornell University and co-author of "Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and the New Immigration." Panelists will discuss significant research on immigrants in America regarding where immigrants settle and why, how immigrant workers benefit and cost the United States, what past and proposed immigration policies portend for the lives of immigrants and their children in this country, and what research has shown about assimilation experiences over the past century. To attend, contact Johanna Ebner at public.affairs@asanet.org or 202-383-9005 ext. 332.

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