Public Libraries, Immigrants and Refugees: Partnership for Inclusivitiy
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Ten-Step Library Community Partnership Guide for New Americans Resettling and Rebuilding New Lives Jennifer Herring Mari Noguchi Touger Vang ACE Scholars, Class of 2013
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http://entrelib.org/conferences/2013-conference/scheduled-presenters/ In this session the second cohort of Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars facilitate a dialogue on diversity issues that impact equity and inclusivity in the library and information field and services. Four diversity issues will be introduced through “ignite”presentations, during which experiences, perspectives, challenges and strategies and best practices related to the issues will be discussed, and will conclude with group summaries of strategies. Using a critical lens and in conversation with these recent MLIS graduates (16-20), diversity concerns and barriers in the profession will be uncovered. This proposed session is an exercise in collaborative learning and in connecting theory and practice around diversity and libraries. - Jennifer Herring, Mari Noguchi, and Touger Vang, ACE Scholars
Transcript of Public Libraries, Immigrants and Refugees: Partnership for Inclusivitiy
Ten-Step Library Community Partnership Guide for New Americans Resettling and Rebuilding New Lives
Jennifer Herring Mari Noguchi Touger Vang ACE Scholars, Class of 2013
www.ethneglobalservices.org , www.acclv.org www.guardian.co.uk, www.reflectionsfromthealley.com
Persons who are unable or unwilling to return to their home country due to a “well-founded fear of persecution” because of race, a social group affiliation, political opinion, religion, or nationality.
Section 101(a)42 of the Immigration and Nationality Act(INA) jeffreykirk.authorsxpress.com
Refugee Camp in Darfur Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org
Refugee Camp in west Thailand Image source: http://rising .globalvociesonline.org
Refugee Camp in east Zaire Image source: http://www.wikipedia.org
The movement of persons into another country seeking permanent residence for various reasons, including family, environment, politics, and employment
Delegates reflected about what they wanted from life in the future at the United We Dream congress in Kansas City. (12/2/2012) Credit: Dan Gill for the New York Times
Immigration Policy Center American Immigration Council
Assimilation assistance in schools
English as a Second Language classes
Information Literacy sessions Communication Resources
Health Services and Resources Financial Resources
And perhaps more…
• United States Department of Homeland Human Services –
Office of Refugees Resettlement • www.acf.hhs.gov
• United States Department of Secretary – Bureau of Population,
Refugees and Migration • www.state.gov
Community Relations with Community Leader or Representative
Khmer Buddhist Society
• Voluntary Agency (VOLAG) • Church World Services • International Rescue Committee • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee
Service • United States Conferences of
Catholic Bishops • World Relief Non-Profit Organizations/Centers: • North Carolina African Services
Coalition • UNCG Center for New North Carolinians
www.ascafrica.org
• The Mosaic Festival honors World Refugees Day.
• MOSAIC FESTIVAL 2013 – COMING SOON!
• Saturday, June 8th, Time: 12:00-8:00pm
(www.cwsgreensboro.org)
Create focus groups with New American participants
• Create websites, bibliographies and directories of information resources
Basic & Advanced English Classes, US Citizenship Class, etc. Other programs based on their needs
Display New American visual arts Offer cultural programs Promote One City – One Book (Greensboro, NC))
http://www.greensborohistory.org/exhibits/cambodia/history.html
From Cambodia to Greensboro Exhibit at Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro NC
Montagnard Backstrap Weavers’ Interactive Workshop at Glenwood Branch Public Library, Greensboro NC
Queens Library in New York Website - http://www.queenslibrary.org/services New Americans Program Adult literacy Multilingual services Health Information Website in Spanish
• Wake County Public Libraries program • Targets refugees and immigrants
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. 1st. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 368. Print. Kirk, Jeffrey. 10 Million to 1: Refugee Resettlement: A How-To Guide. Bloomington: Balboa Press, 2011. 180. Print. Martin, David. The United States Refugee Admissions Program: Reforms for a New Era of Refugee Resettlement. Washington D.C.: Brooking Institute Press, 2005. 134. Print. Mott, Tamar. African refugee resettlement in the United States (The new Americans:Recent immigration and American Society) . El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009. 322. Print. Pipher, Mary. The middle of everywhere: Helping refugees enter the American community. New York: Mariner Books, 2003. 416. Print. Pho, Tuvet-Lan. Southeast Asian Refugees and Immigrants in the Mill City: Changing Families, Communities, Institutions -- Thirty Years Afterward . Woodstock: Vermont, 2008. 250. Print.
