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Established in the fall of 2004,
the Cambio Center's 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 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
November 30, Noon
Webinar on Hispanic Leadership and Entrepreneurial Development
Sponsored by
the North Central Education/Extension and Research Activity (NCERA-216) (Flyer with additional information)
Presenter: Abelardo Rodriguez, University of Idaho
Organized by Alejandra Gudiño, MU |
CAMBIO CENTER NEW BOOK:
Electronic copies can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Cambio Center virtual library.
Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia (eds):
Cambio de Colores: Latinos in the Heartland. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference: Latinos and Immigrants in Midwestern Communities Columbia, Missouri | May 24-26, 2010
Published by the Cambio Center, University of Missouri, June, 2011 (95 pp.) |
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February 1st, 2011: Cambio Center receives two USDA grants!
- USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) has awarded the University of Missouri's Cambio Center a three-year grant to carry out the research project "Immigrant Integration & Sustainable Rural Development: Linking Receiving & Newcomer Communities (PI Corinne Valdivia; co-PI's Lisa Flores and Steve Jeanetta).
- USDA’s Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (OASDFR), through the Lyons, Nebraska, Center for Rural Affairs, has approved the one-year grant “Improving the Use of USDA Programs among Hispanic and Latino Farmers and Ranchers” (PI Steve Jeanetta)
More information about these new Cambio Center projects will be available soon. |
The Cambio Center's research project  Asset Accumulation Strategies in 3 New Settlements Communities, funded in 2006 by a competitive grant of the USDA's National Research Initiative (now Agriculture and Food research Initiative - AFRI) has finished in September, 2010 after four years of intensive and ground-breaking work.
The project's website has an up-to-date list of articles and presentations. The unique and large data set will continue to be analyzed, and more products will be coming to support the integration of newcomers into Missouri and the Midwest.
A 2008 Cambio Center international event:
Coloquio Internacional "Migrantes regionales en las Américas. Casos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Estados Unidos"
Una iniciativa del Cambio Center.
Buenos Aires, 8 y 9 de setiembre, 2008
International Colloquium “Regional Migrants in the Américas. Cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States”
A Cambio Center Strategic Initiatives project, in cooperation with the Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad San Martín (Argentina), Universidad de Chile.
September 8-9, 2008, Buenos Aires
(More information - in Spanish.)
The Cambio Center is one of the International Programs at MU
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