Migration Stories: Popular Education Methods for Linking Immigration & Globalization

Submitted by dianapeiwu on May 12, 2007 - 2:03am.
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This session will be on: June 30, 2007 - 3:30pm

It will be held at: Atlanta Ballroom F room at the Westin Hotel

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Organization Description

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is a national alliance of immigrant and refugee community based groups, legal and advocacy organizations, and local, regional and national organizations, coalitions and networks that work for fair and just immigration reform, to lift up and amplify the voices of immigrant and refugee grassroots community organizations and leaders in national and international arenas (e.g. nationally, on immigration reform, and internationally, on migration, development, and against free trade agreements), and to support, develop and deliver tools, trainings, analysis, perspectives to build the capacity of grassroots community organizations to advocate and act on the issues affecting poor and working class immigrant and refugee communities.

Proposal Demographics

identify as women
identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered, queer)
identify as people of color
are artists/cultural workers

Session Description

This workshop session will showcase two popular education tools & exercises that are useful in community organizing, political education and leadership development in the context of linking immigrant stories & rights with an anti-racist analysis, and placing immigrant rights in the context of broader movements for social and economic justice. We will also bring together trainers to share their experiences in using the tools in immigrant, refugee and Black and Native community contexts. The tools are drawn from the BRIDGE Curriculum: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Era. Specifically, we will introduce the Migration Stories Timeline (and variations) and our work on exercises that link globalization and migration, such as the video, "Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy." All modules and handouts are bilingual in Spanish & English, and most exercises are also translated in Chinese and Korean. Participants will also have access to nearly-finished versions of new curriculum modules including a Black/Brown Border Dialogues Timeline, Grassroots Legislative Advocacy, and others.


First Name

Diana

Last Name

Wu

Contact E-mail

diana@nnirr.org

Proposing Organization

National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

Organization Website

www.nnirr.org

Position or Title

Program Director, Education & Capacity Building

Contact Telephone

510-4651984

Event Day

Saturday, June 30th (Strategizing the Achieving of Another World)

Contact Address

310 8th St, Suite 303

Format

popular education, small group dialogues

Contact City

Oakland

Keywords

Antiracism
Immigrant Rights
Movement building

Audience Number

less than 25 people

Contact State

CA

Contact ZIP

94607

Person Reviewing

Emily