Symposium on The Rights Indigenous Peoples of The Americas This memory book—or memoria—describes the cultural dialogues between California Native Americans and indigenous Mexicans living in the Central Valley. Participating communities include indigenous Mexicans (Mixtecs, P'urhepechas, Otomi, Yaqui, and others), along with Native Americans (Mono, Wukchumni, Chumash, and others). The book celebrates the resistance

Immigrant Women: A Road to the Future This memory book narrates the experience of a group of Hmong, Laotian, Mexican, Salvadoran and Mixtec immigrant women as they engage in building inter-ethnic relationships and try to create one community in the ethnically diverse Central Valley.These women share their own stories of coming together to express their

Syrian Recipes from Home Nour Al MushantafWe at the Pan Valley Institute felt it was important to give Nour the opportunity to tell her story because, while it is unique to her, her story is also one of countless refugees . Nour is not an activist or politician – she was part of a large,

Latino Civic Participation In this case study, we seek to understand some dimensions of the context in which are formed and expressed the civic and political participation of immigrants residing in the counties of Fresno and Madera, California, as well as the history of their formation as political agents. Statistics tell us of the