The issue of immigration, since the beginning of time, has never been an easy one. Countries have struggled with the integration of newcomers, and the U.S. is not an exception. In this country, 80 percent of immigrants are ...

In January 2004, after more than two years of silence, President George Bush reignited the national immigration debate when he proposed a new guest worker program. Members of Congress of both political parties have entered ...

My study, Listening to Latino Business Owners, confirms the varied needs of Latino business owners for business assistance in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The findings identify problem areas for which services ...

The community development program for the Cambio de Colores conference is a chance for people to hear the stories what community leaders in Missouri have to tell about the changes they have been going through as a result ...

The second and third generation of Latino immigrants have historically not faired as well as their foreign-born parents on many health measures, such as life expectancy, unplanned pregnancy and drug use. To better prepare ...

Within the last decade, the growth of the Latino population in the midwestern United States--often termed the "browning" of the Midwest (Aponte and Siles, 1994; Rochin, Siles, and Gomez, 1996; Rosenbaum, 1997; Rural Migration ...

Asthma is the most frequent reason for preventable hospital admissions among children regardless of race or socio-economic status. Since asthma hospitalizations are preventable, an implicit assumption is that parents are ...