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Conference on Latino Issues
for the Study o f W om en in
S ociety 's Gender, Families, and
Immigration Project and distin
guished professor of anthropol
ogy. “ In addition, we are inter
ested in exploring how these is
sues can provide opportunities
for alliance building for im m i
grant rights.”
The event will be free and open
to the public, beginning T hurs
day evening. May 22, and con
tinuing all day Friday, May 23. It
will be held at the UO W illiam H.
Knight Law Center in Eugene.
A dvanced registration is not
required.
Lynn Stephen
“ I see this conference giving
More than 30 coin niunity lead the Latino com m unity a sense of
ers and advocates for im m igrants’ hope in the midst o f a lot of
rights will be at the University of negative publicity focused on
Oregon to take part in the C onfer im m igrant legal statu s,” said
ence on Gender, Families and Patricia Cortez, president of the
board of directors of the Amigos
Latino Immigration in Oregon.
“We are providing a unique M ulticultural C enter in Eugene
forum on immigration by focus and mem ber of the conference’s
ing specifically on how im m igra advisory board. “This is im por
tion politics and policies affect tant work, especially from my
Latino immigrant women, men, perspective as an im m igrant.”
For more inform ation, visit
families and youth," said Lynn
csw
s.u o reg o n .edu .
Stephen, director of the Center
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