Oregon Humanities

Free Public Panel Examines Immigration Reform in the U.S.

Oregon scholars explore the history and current issues of immigration nationally and in the Northwest.

18 June 2009 | Permalink

Immigration remains one of the most complex and potentially divisive issues the United States and the Northwest face today, with economic, social, cultural, and political questions that transform how communities interact. This issue is the focus of a free public panel sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities in partnership with the American Leadership Forum.
“The Unfinished Nation: Dilemmas and Decisions on Immigration Reform” will be held on Saturday, July 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., at the Southern Oregon University Lenn and Dixie Hannon Library Meese Room 305, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
The panel will explore approaches to immigration reform, how immigrant families and the labor movement have been affected by this reform, and the history and current challenges of immigration in Oregon.
Panelists include Lynn Stephen, distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and Robert Bussel, director of the Labor Education and Research Center and associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. The panel will be moderated by Dan Tichenor, senior faculty fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon.
This panel is part of the OCH 2009 Summer Teacher Institute, which this year focuses on immigration and American life; Tichenor is guest director of the institute. OCH has offered a summer institute for Oregon secondary school teachers for sixteen years. Past themes have included popular culture, class and social mobility, and citizenship in the twenty-first century.