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Hearts + Minds Knowledge Round Up: Co-Creating Civic Connections For Indigenous And Black Young People In Peel, Esrah Akasha, Shamas Berantuo, Alex Hansen, Yasmin Hashi, Michella Mark, Fallon Melander, Abigail Salole Jan 2023

Hearts + Minds Knowledge Round Up: Co-Creating Civic Connections For Indigenous And Black Young People In Peel, Esrah Akasha, Shamas Berantuo, Alex Hansen, Yasmin Hashi, Michella Mark, Fallon Melander, Abigail Salole

Hearts + Minds

This knowledge round-up addresses the question: What ought to be prioritized by non-profit organizations for meaningful civic connections for Indigenous and Black young people? The answer to this question is our Hearts + Minds theory of change mapped out in this paper.


Local Governance Of Immigrant Incorporation: How City-Based Organizational Fields Shape The Cases Of Undocumented Youth In New York City And Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk Nov 2018

Local Governance Of Immigrant Incorporation: How City-Based Organizational Fields Shape The Cases Of Undocumented Youth In New York City And Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk

Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

City-based organizations and governments play an important role in incorporating undocumented immigrant youth. This article investigates how localities sociopolitically incorporate these immigrants by examining the governance constellations and institutional logics of the organizational field that manages undocumented youth. Comparing sets of municipal and civil society organizations in different national settings, I use the two cases of New York City and Paris to ask how the ‘city-based organizational field of immigrant incorporation’ shapes citizenship experiences of undocumented youth. Data come from multi-level longitudinal ethnography over 8 years with two dozen undocumented youth and with organizations in each city as well as …


Carpas, Cuentos, And Corridos: Chicano Arts And Community Building, Tanya Marina Mote Jan 2009

Carpas, Cuentos, And Corridos: Chicano Arts And Community Building, Tanya Marina Mote

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study suggests that effective forms of participation are grounded in histories of opposition and resistance. The intermediate relationship provided by voluntary associations, unions, clubs and even bowling leagues might teach citizens to act democratically; that is, to participate in activities related to electing leaders, but their usefulness extends beyond conventional politics to efforts to expand public life and to promote democracy through a broader set of activities that combine intensely social and personal public engagement, resistance, protest, and opposition, with conventional efforts to influence leaders. The experiences of community based arts organizations provide a lens to examine both the …