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The Weight We Carry: Navigating Family, Culture & Personal Agency

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This conference will explore and allow women to share their experiences in navigating family, culture, and personal agency. We hope to engage in an open, candid discussion around the complex relationships we may have with our families and cultures, and the practices we can utilize to work through the challenges we currently face and might encounter. Within this conversation, this conference will also provide participants with direction in strategizing around available resources and opportunities as they set out and work towards their short-term and long-term goals.

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Contentious Solidarities: Navigating Racialization and Alliance-Building in Korean American Immigrant Rights Work

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Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with Korean American immigrant rights organizers, and the Black and Latinx organizers with which they attempt to build solidarity, this presentation explores how the aforementioned tensions unfold in activists’ daily interactions as they attempt to build an interracial solidarity movement at a moment of intensified anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy-making.

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Navigating Model Minority Stereotypes: Asian Indian Youth in South Asian Diaspora

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Though Asian Indians are typically thought of as a “model minority”, not much is known about the school experiences of their children. Positive stereotyping of these immigrants and their children often masks educational needs and issues, creates class divides within the Indian-American community, and triggers stress for many Asian Indian students. In her new book, … Read more

Navigating Alliances with AAPIs: Ethical Dilemmas and Values of Community-Based Research

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4th Annual AAPI Policy Research Summit Navigating Alliances with AAPIs: Ethical Dilemmas and Values of Community-Based Research Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10AM to 4PM Loyola University Chicago – Corboy Law Center 25 East Pearson Street – Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor Chicago, IL 60611 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are growing and diverse populations within the … Read more