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The Division of United States Studies and the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC), together with the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), invite you to a roundtable discussion:

The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know about Latino Immigration

Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th Floor Conference Room
Monday, March 29, 2004
3:00-5:30 pm

In a recent article titled "The Hispanic Challenge" in Foreign Policy magazine Harvard University Professor Samuel Huntington argues that "the single most immediate and most serious challenge to America's traditional identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico…The experience and lessons of past immigration have little relevance to understanding its dynamics and consequences." In light of these claims, this roundtable discussion will seek to address the state of current research on Latino immigration to the United States and its dynamics and consequences for U.S. politics, economic growth, and culture.

Agenda

3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Demetrios Papademetriou, President, MPI
Philippa Strum, Director, Division of United States Studies, WWC

3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Panel: What do we know?
Roberto Suro, Director, The Pew Hispanic Center
Elizabeth Grieco, Data Manager, Migration Information Source, MPI
David Gutiérrez, WWC Fellow and Professor, University of California, San Diego
Michael Jones-Correa, WWC Center Fellow and Professor, Cornell University
Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, WWC Fellow and Professor, University of Southern California

4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Discussion:
Moderated by:
Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute, WWC & Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, WWC Fellow and Professor, ITAM