Religion and the Politics of Encounter

Resources and Links

 

Atlanta Area Websites

ASCOMBRA
http://www.Ascombra.org
(Associacão de Comunidade Brasileira (Brazilian Community Association – Atlanta area))

Atlanta-Rio de Janeiro Sister Cities Committee
http://www.Atlantario.org

Concerned Black Clergy (CBC) of Metropolitan Atlanta
http://www.concernedblackclergy.org
(CBC is the primary, proactive and principle-centered organization comprising mostly of African-American ministers and laity. Our mission is to provide leadership, advocacy and service to the homeless, helpless and hopeless in our community.)

GALEO
http://www.galeo.org
(The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) is established to increase representation of Latino/Hispanic elected and appointed officials, to proactively address the issues and needs of the Latino community, and to engage the Latino/Hispanic community in the democratic and policy process across the State of Georgia.)

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General Immigration-Issue Information links

Segundo Coloquio Internacional sobre Migración y Desarrollo
Migración, Transnacionalismo y Transformación Social
Declaración de Cocoyoco, 2006
(Documento Preliminar)

II Encuentro Cívico Iberoamericano Declaración de Pirlápolis
Migraciones: un mundo sin muros con desarrollo sostenible para todos y todas
3 de noviembre 2006, Uruguay
http://www.encuentrocivico.org/

Immigrants and Politics Blog
http://www.immigrantpolitics.org
(News and Scholarship on Immigrants and Politics in the US and abroad)

Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy
http://www.risep-fiu.org/new/EthnicGroupMapsMain.php
(Statistics on Latinos and migration in Florida)

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
http://gcir.org/about_immigration/usmap.htm
(U.S. Immigration Statistics State by State)

National Immigration Forum
http://www.immigrationforum.org
(The Forum advocates and builds support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and are fair and supportive to newcomers in the United States)

The Latino Coaliton
http://www.thelatinocoalition.com
(Monitors public policy affecting Latinos in the United States)

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
http://www.lulac.org
(Advances the interests of Hispanic americans through community-based programs)

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Churches (Florida)

Immokalee

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
http://www.dioceseofvenice.org/parishes/parishcomp.cfm?AssignID=39

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Civic and Cultural Organizations (Florida)

Jupiter

Corn-Maya, Inc.
http://cornmaya.web.officelive.com/links.aspx
email: cornmaya@bellsouth.net
Corn-Maya, Inc., which has existed since the 80s, reinstated its lapsed non-profit status.  It helped plan a Mayan-centered cultural festival in 2002 in the Abacoa planned community in Jupiter, near the Wilkes Honors College. See Fiesta Maya 2008 highlights at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8Ce0saISM

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Community Organizations (Florida)

Immokalee

Coalition of Immokalee Workers
http://www.ciw-online.org
(To take a virtual tour of the daily life of immigrant farm workers in the Immokalee area click here)

Student/Farmworker Alliance
http://www.sfalliance.org

West Palm Beach

Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties
www.cfpbmc.org
On application from this “Latino Immigrants in Florida” study, this foundation awarded a $22,350.00 grant in 2003 to open the Corn-Maya, Inc. office in Jupiter, Florida.  See “News and Events” for more information.)

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Links

The Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
www.gcir.org
(Contains a directory of foundations that support programs serving immigrants and refugees.)

Religion and Immigration Project (TRIP) funded by the Pew Charitable Trust
http://www.usfca.edu/TRIP

Enlaces America
http://www.enlacesamerica.org
(Facilitates empowerment of transnational latino communities in the U.S.)

The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://www.pewtrusts.com
(click on Religion in Public Life, then Grant Highlights, and see, e.g., "March 2000 Part of the Religion and New Immigrants Initiative." Click and see: "The Religion, Immigration and Civic Life in Miami project.")

The Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~latino/

Interfaith Worker Justice
http://www.nicwj.org/
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660
Ph: (773) 728-8400
Fx: (773) 728-8409
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

National Employment Law Project (NELP):Advocating for the poor and the unemployed
http://www.nelp.org/
Immigrant Worker Justice Project:
National Employment Law Project
55 John Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 285-3025
Fax: (212) 285-3044
E-mail: nelp@nelp.org
NELP’s Immigrant Worker Advocacy Project seeks to end the abusive and discriminatory treatment of low-wage immigrant workers, with a focus on the approximately five million undocumented workers who labor in the lowest paid, highest risk jobs in the U.S. economy.

National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON)
http://www.ndlon.org/
The mission of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network is to strengthen and expand the work of local day laborer organizing groups, in order to become more effective and strategic in building leadership, advancing low-wage worker and immigrant rights, and develop successful models for organizing immigrant contingent/temporary workers.

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Resource Centers

Jupiter
http://www.friendsofelsol.org
El Sol was opened by the Town of Jupiter in 2006 to provide a day labor center, and offer English-language training and other services to immigrants.

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Social Services Providers

Guadalupe Social Services
http://www.guadalupess.org/
(affiliated with our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Immokalee)

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