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Civic and Political
Participation
Immigrant Advocacy
Research Resources
Voting Rights Issues
CIVIC/POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
The Advancement Project
The Advancement Project is a democracy and justice action group that
works with communities seeking to build a fair and just multi-racial
democracy in America. Using law, public policy and strategic
communications, Advancement Project acts in partnership with local
communities to advance universal opportunity, equity and access for
those left behind in America. Initially the Advancement Project
concentrates on three subject areas: opportunity to learn, power and
democracy and urban peace.
CIRCLE
Since 2001, CIRCLE has conducted, collected, and funded research on
the civic and political participation of young Americans.
National Alliance
for Civic Education
NACE was launched in 2000 and now has more than 200 group and
individual members committed to advancing civic knowledge and
engagement. NACE
believes the time has come to band together to ensure that the next
generation of citizens understands and values democracy and
participates in the ongoing work of building democracy in America.
National Conference
on Citizenship
The National
Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is a federally chartered
corporation whose mission is to encourage a more active, engaged
citizenry. Its mandates are to hold annually a national conference
on citizenship; to assist in the development of more dynamic
procedures for making citizenship more effective, including the
promotion and encouragement of local, State, and regional
citizenship conferences; and to indicate the ways and means by which
various organizations may contribute concretely to the development
of a more active, alert, enlightened, conscientious, and progressive
citizenry in our country.
PBS Immigration Lesson Plan
A section of this includes a class project on whether non-citizen
immigrants should be allowed to vote.
IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY
Asian American Legal Defense and
Education Fund
Founded in 1974, AALDEF is the first legal rights organization on
the east coast serving Asian Americans. AALDEF works on
strengthening political participation among Asian communities
through their voting rights project.
Voting
Rights
Enlaces America seeks
to maximize the potential for transnational leadership and regional
policy advocacy within Latino immigrant communities in the United
States.
The Florida Immigrant Advocacy
Center is a non-profit legal organization dedicated to legal
services, monitoring unfair treatment of immigrants, and challenging
immigration policy issues in South Florida and nationally.
Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride
and the
New American Freedom Summer
Forty years ago, African American communities in Mississippi
sent out a call for volunteers from throughout the country to come
to the state and stand with African Americans in their struggle to
live in safety, secure the right to vote, and to win equal treatment
and full citizenship. Forty years later, immigrant communities and
their allies in Arizona and Florida sent out a call for volunteers
from throughout the country to come to these states and stand with
immigrant communities in their struggle to live in safety, secure
the right to vote, and to win equal treatment and full citizenship.
MALDEF - Founded
in 1968 in San Antonio, Texas, the Mexican American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund is the leading nonprofit Latino litigation,
advocacy and educational outreach institution in the United States.
National
Immigration Forum The
mission of the National Immigration Forum is to embrace and uphold
American’s tradition as a nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates
and builds support for public policies that welcome immigrants and
refugees and are fair and supportive to new comers in the United
States.
The New York Immigration Coalition
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The New York
Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy and advocacy
organization for more than 200 groups in New York State that work
with immigrants and refugees.
NYANA (New York Association for
New Americans) has provided refugee assistance to Jewish, Haitian,
Tibetan refugees and those from several other countries. The
organization seeks to support legal economic immigrants with the
building blocks necessary for a better future. Some of the
programs they provide are education and ESL, health and mental
services, bi-culturation and more.
Northern California
Citizenship Project is an organization that works largely with
the Asian and Latino immigrant populations of the Northern
California area on citizenship and civic participation issues.
During the inception of the organization, NCCP worked to help tens
of thousands of immigrants effected by the 1996 Welfare Reform Act
which made citizenship a condition for the receipt of public
assistance. Later, the organization grew committed to the civic
and political empowerment of these immigrant groups documenting
models and best practices for respective communities and their civic
groups to follow.
RACCOON/NADA Project
Nada means
HOPE in all Slavic languages. An agency that
provides information on immigration and post 9/11 issues to those
who are from Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia.
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
Center for the New American Community
Community Resource Bank
seeks
to focus on issues and practices related to the integration of
immigrants into American communities. The purpose of the initiative
is to create a virtual community of local and national organizations
that are engaged in effective initiatives to assist and empower
newcomers and the communities in which they settle.
Migration Dialogue
promotes an informed discussion of the issues associated with
international migration by providing unbiased and timely information
on immigration and integration issues.
The Migration Policy Institute's Sarah Margon discusses findings by
the Urban Institute on
naturalization trends among immigrants to the United States.
New York City Museum of Immigration
An institution devoted to documenting the immigrant presence of
different ethnic groups as early as Dutch rule through photography,
personal items, and family interviewing.
The Justice Learning Project
A collaboration of National Public Radio's Justice Talking and
The New York Times Learning Network
Civilrights.org (Immigration Resources Page)
The site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights
news and information.
University of
Amsterdam Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
The
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary
research institute of the University of Amsterdam which has existed
since 1994. Its research clusters include citizenship and
integration issues in multicultural democracies.
Immigration: The Changing
Face
of America
Voice of America's immigration resource page. What draws people from
across the globe to U.S.shores? How are immigrants received once
they arrive? How have U.S.laws and regulations governing immigration
changed since September 11, 2001? What unique contributions are
specific immigrant groups making to American society?
VOTING ISSUES
Ballot
Access News
A non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations
of folks trying to put candidates on the ballot in the United States
of America
Black Box Voting
An organization working to promote voting audits to prevent
disenfranchisement through electronic ballot fraud.
Center for Voting and Democracy
is a non-profit organization located in Takoma Park, Maryland
dedicated to fair elections. The organization conducts research,
analysis, education and advocacy to build the understanding of and
support for more democratic voting systems.
National Voting
Rights Institute
Founded in 1994, the institute aims to redefine the issue of private
money in public elections as that nation’s newest voting right
barrier and also litigates to ensure full political participation
among all citizens.
PARENTS UNITED
FOR EDUCATION
A group of San Francisco parents and community leaders
joined together to pursue voting rights in school board elections
for all parents of children in schools, regardless of citizenship
status.
Voices Without
Votes Project A web site created to foster a dialogue between
U.S. voters and non-U.S. citizens in advance of the 2004
presidential election.
The World Votes Project
A Yale undergraduate reflects on voting rights at
"This November your Vote Counts for 20"
Please feel free to suggest a link.
Last
updated
December 22, 2007.