Cumbre 2010 - Fourth Latino/Latin American Summit of The Great Plains

The Cumbre of the Great Plains conference is an international working meeting that occurs every two or three years to:

Cumbre 2010 will be set at a particularly critical time when hope and uncertain futures are colluding and colliding in unexpected ways.

Take stock of the most critical issues and opportunities facing Latino and Latin
American communities in our region, nationally and across borders. Widen the analytical lens beyond the local in order to fully grasp the regional, national, and transnational forces shaping the processes of social inclusion of these communities. Forge partnerships with policy-makers, employers, non-Latino populations, civil society, the faith community, academics and philantropies interested in
working together to enhance the quality of life and the civil and human rights of all
populations.

Latin America, immigrants and Latino populations will be digging their way out of the worst global economic and financial crisis since the 1930s.

The Obama administration’s agenda of hope for home and abroad will be at its mid-point.

The much awaited and needed U.S. 2010 Census will be underway.

New destination cities and non-metro places will be experiencing increasingly disparate futures.

Immigration, health disparities, the enviroment, labor rights, education and the future of our youth will demand our attention for decades to come.

Research, civil rights and development agendas are being re-set by policy-makers, citizen-scholars and grassroots communities alike.

Latino, migrant and all communities are bringing culture, literature, the arts, faith and morality back into their human and economic development agendas.

Latino and immigrant political mobilization and civic engagement will be at an all-time high in the region and beyond.

Conference themes will be framed by these emerging trends and outlined in the next announcement.

We invite scholars, civic organizations, policy-makers, private sector representatives, and all migrant, Latino, and non-Latino community members to suggest conference themes and to participate.

Cumbre 2010 is sponsored by OLLAS and cosponsored by the International Network on Migration and Development (RIMD). Additional cosponsors welcomed.

The Office of Latino/Latin American Studies of the Great Plains (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is focused on the economic, political and cultural issues relevant to the Latino population of the Americas, with particular emphasis on U.S. Latino and Latin American transnational communities. OLLAS has become the premier research center for immigration issues in the Great Plains. It has also become a fundamental link across a number of interlocking local, national and transnational networks.

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For more information please visit: http://www.unomaha.edu/ollas.

To be added to the OLLAS Cumbre 2010 mailing list contact:
unocumbre2010@mail.unomaha.edu or 402.554.3835