Established in the fall of 2004, the Cambio Center main goals are:

• Provide education and enhance the welfare of all residents of the state of Missouri in the context of the current demographic changes
• Develop a premier source of knowledge, scholarship, and outreach to respond to the local effects of globalization
• Provide knowledge and best practices to facilitate the integration of newcomers to Missouri and the Midwest
• Provide knowledge and best practices to facilitate a smooth integration of newcomers to Missouri and the Midwest, and prepare all citizens for a diverse society
• Understand the international nature of the immigration process, the cultures and institutions of Latin America, as a major global partner of Missouri in the exchange of goods and the migration of people

The Cambio Center announces a new Cambio de colores initiative:
1st Student Midwest Latino Research Symposium:
Los Pioneros del Futuro.
September 26-27, 2008.

The Cambio Center is one of the International Programs at MU

Cambio Center Newsletter: March 31st, 2008

www.cambiodecolores.org

The Cambio Center organized the seventh annual Cambio de Colores conference: April 7-9, 2008, Columbia, Missouri

Asset Accumulation Strategies in 3 New Settlements Communities
Web site of the Cambio Center's USDA-NRI research project on newcomers integration in Missouri.

AVAILABLE! Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia (eds.):Cambio de Colores. Latinos in Missouri: Gateway to a New Community. Proceedings of the 2004 annual conference including selected papers from 2003.
Published by University of Missouri Extension in cooperation with the Cambio Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, March 2007. (132 pp.)

To obtain the book:

• Buy online by credit card ($10 per copy)
• Send check made to the "Curators of the University of Missouri" for $10 per copy to the Cambio Center (301 Gentry Hall, MU / Columbia, MO 65211)
• Download for free (large PDF file - 2Mb)
• If you are an author (Table of contents available) and have not received a copy by the end of May, 2007, please request a complimentary copy from the Cambio Center.

Important information from other sources:

• NEW! Population Estimates for Missouri, April 1, 2000 and July 1, 2006, statewide and by county, showing that the Latino population grew over 31 percent in that 6-year period. (PDF file, 233 pp.)