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Welcome to the Nuevo South Community Research Initiative (NSCRI)! Here you will find information about the research activities and publications produced by the people associated with the NSCRI, as well as links to community organizations, research resources, news, and agencies working on Latino issues locally and across the United States.

In The News

On Saturday November 7, five students and three faculty members volunteered with Mujeres Sin Fronteras, a group of migrant women from Mexico, in helping them build greenhouses and chicken coops for their new organic farm. In this volunteering day, the group joined members of Student Action for Farmworkers, staff from the Lenoir County Migrant Education Program, and several farmworkers. It was a great day for all participants and a particularly enlightening experience for students. Paraphrasing the President of the community group, this was an opportunity for others to know about the reality of the farmworkers who put food on our dishes. Photographs and personal accounts coming soon. (November 2009).
Partnering with AMEXCAN, John Pierpont submitted a grant proposal to the Unitarian Universalist Association Fund for a Just Society for a human rights education project. The project, if funded, will have two components. In the first component, 10 to 15 community lay advisors will learn about human rights as well as legal rights and responsibilities, and will pass along this knowledge to others in their communities, and in particular to immigrant workers. In the second component, a community “Solidarity Committee” will be developed to advocate regarding specific issues that are important to immigrant Latino workers and to provide support for individuals as needed. This project will be evaluated using a participatory process methodology. (October 2009).
Ricard Viñas de Puig, NSCRI's newest affiliated faculty, is starting an exciting project with Mujeres sin Fronteras, a grassroots organization of migrant women from Mexico located in Greene County. Through a participatory methodology, Ricard will create a multilingual dictionary of indigenous languages from Chiapas and other Mexican states. This project inaugurates the Language and Community focus area of the NSCRI. (September 2009).

Banner photographs courtesy of Juvencio Rocha Peralta and David Griffith.

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