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The New Immigrant Experience Enlightens At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley Apr 2018

The New Immigrant Experience Enlightens At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to immigrate to a foreign nation, last Wednesday’s panel titled “The New Immigrant Experience: Sharing Stories and Dispelling Myths” hosted by the University of Maine International Programs provided three unique perspectives on that experience. The event took place on March 28in room 100 of the Donald P. Corbett building on campus and went from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Beginning with a Taste of Africa reception in the foyer, attendees were encouraged to try traditional African dishes and mingle among each other. After about an hour, attendees congregated in the large lecture …


The Role Of Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, And Refugees In Confronting Maine’S Demographic Challenges, Robert W. Glover Jan 2016

The Role Of Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, And Refugees In Confronting Maine’S Demographic Challenges, Robert W. Glover

Maine Policy Review

The state of Maine currently faces a looming “demographic winter.” The state and its communities will struggle to maintain viable and vibrant communities in the decades to come due the current demographic situation, and will encounter a host of economic and political challenges as a result. Working to make Maine an attractive destination for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees must be at the forefront of efforts to address this challenge. This article lays out the difficult demographic situation that Maine currently faces and will face in the years to come and articulates why, more than ever, fostering greater diversity in …


Ripples From The East Coast Stream: Contributions From Migrant Hispanic Workers To Maine’S Wild Blueberry Industry, Vaishali Mamgain Jan 2013

Ripples From The East Coast Stream: Contributions From Migrant Hispanic Workers To Maine’S Wild Blueberry Industry, Vaishali Mamgain

Maine Policy Review

Interviews with 46 Hispanic migrant workers in the wild blueberry industry in Maine revealed they harvest different crops in several states and come to Maine at the end of the “East Coast Stream.” Although workers varied in productivity (and hence income), overall the group earned good income and contributed significantly to the Maine economy as workers and consumers. Based on these findings, governmental laws and policies are discussed in terms of their potential impact. A consideration of Maine’s aging population and interviews with employers demonstrate these workers’ importance: without them employers say, the wild blueberry industry would not be competitive.


Salt, 2007-2008, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2007

Salt, 2007-2008, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 65. 2007-2008.

Contents

  • 2 The ABCs of ESL a photo essay by Maisie Crow. Stephen Dyro teaches Beginning ESK in the very same classroom where he was a student at Portland High School. Some of his students were never literate in their native language; now they are learning to read and right.
  • 10 “Peacy Keen and Wonderful” written by Kelsey Abbott, photography by Ashley Bailey. Lee Hudson and her husband, Heath, harvest, and market mussels and seaweed through their company, Frenchman Bay Fisheries. They have struggled to …


Immigrants Talk About Life In Maine, Ernest J. Scheyder Feb 2005

Immigrants Talk About Life In Maine, Ernest J. Scheyder

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

What's it like to be an immigrant in Maine? Is it any different being a woman? These and other questions were the topic of this week's installment of the Women in the Curriculum Lunch Series entitled "Immigrant women's stories in Maine: Students present their findings from oral history." The speech was Wednesday afternoon in the Bangor Room of Memorial Union.


Salt, 2003-2004, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2003

Salt, 2003-2004, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 57 / 58. 2003-2004. Staying on. A Dexter story after the Shoe. A sheep farmer uses only salt water and sunlight for her wool. Veterans speak from the edgy shadows of their memories.

Contents

  • 3 Staying On by Terry Farish
  • 4 Uphill Either Way by Carrie Kilman, photographs by Jenifer Dean. T-Bob’s Taxi—A Dexter story after The Shoe.
  • 18 James at Risk photo essay by Lesley MacVane. A 16-year old boy at odds with the world is also a poet.
  • 26 Waa Nabad: Somali Community in Lewiston …


Salt, Summer 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jul 2002

Salt, Summer 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Summer 2002.

Contents

  • 4 How to Peel a Persimmon Learning about growth of the Cambodian community in Portland. Krista Mahr, Lissa Gotwals
  • 18 Unmasked. Facing Trans Identity in Portland, Maine. A photo essay. Joanna Johnson
  • 24 Welcome at Shaw’s Just off the Appalachian Trail in Monson, Maine, rests Shaw’s Boarding Home, which always has its doors open to hikers. Sally Schumaier, Lorienne Schulze
  • 40 Breathing in the Day The Peabody House serves as the first AIDS hospice in Maine. Jessi Misslin, Andres Gonzalez
  • 54 Aborokporo The daily life of a Sudanese family in Portland. A photo essay. Kyle Glover …


Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2001

Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Omnibus 2001.

Contents

  • 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
  • 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
  • 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
  • 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …


Salt Omnibus 2000, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2000

Salt Omnibus 2000, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Omnibus 2000.

Contents

  • 8 Engine House Locomotives are unforgiving beasts to repair. The men in the engine house know they’d as soon crush you as look at you.
  • 18 The Infiltration of Hip Hop Hip Hop comes to Maine via New York
  • 24 Heirs of the Damariscotta People along the Damariscotta River’s path to the coast value its unspoiled water and vistas. Development is the threat.
  • 40 Best of Both Worlds Intercultural families in southern Maine. A photo essay.
  • 48 Snowmobile Town Jackman, Maine, is a busy hub for snowmobiling, which ahs lifted the border town out of its …


Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Dec 1997

Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 50. Four Dollars. “Yelana and Mohammed go to school with children from 25 countries learning a new language in Maine.”

Contents

  • 2 Nineteen Pine Street Around the corner from Salt waited a compelling story about a school. We tell it in this issue, challenging negative press about Reiche.
  • 4 Myrtle Myrtle Lowell left home at age 13 to go to work. That was more than 70 years ago. She’s never had time for needlework. “Course not! God almighty! Only the Southern ladies could do that. Not us old crows.” …


B820: Inmigration To Maine: 1975-1983, Louis A. Ploch Feb 1988

B820: Inmigration To Maine: 1975-1983, Louis A. Ploch

Bulletins

This publication is the capstone report of a series of research studies, begun in 1976, of inmigration to Maine. During the 1976-1984 period, three separate, but coordinated, studies were conducted by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. The impetus for the studies was the release in 1974 and 1975 of a series of population estimates by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. These data, and especially their analysis by Calvin Beale of the USDA, were confirmation that rural areas throughout the United States were growing as a result of inmigration from urban areas. Moreover, Maine, …