Women in the Northwest
Initiative Expands Research Focus to
Immigration
The Gender, Families, and Immigration in the Northwest (GFINW) Project, will generate research and analysis about gender and family dynamics among changing immigrant communities in the Northwest and make that research accessible to and in conversation with policy makers, social service providers, and immigrant rights advocates. GFINW will carry out a number of activities including an annual speaker series, workshops for researchers, meetings of a community-based advisory board, and a conference during 2008 that will create a space for dialogue among the Northwest immigrant community, immigrant rights and community-based organizations, policy makers, and social service provider who work with immigrant communities and families. Researchers affiliated with the project are currently engaged in research projects on Mexican immigrant youth and on the integration of immigrant families in rural Oregon.
Over the past years, the Women in the Northwest project has sponsored or cosponsored
a range of activities, including:
- In 2005 WNW began a new research focus on U.S. tax policy and its intersection with gender, race, and class inequality in the state of Oregon. Changes in social welfare and tax policies since the 1980s have resulted in growing income and wealth inequality and economic insecurity for a growing number of citizens and residents in the U.S. There is a dearth of research not only on how citizen's are differently affected by these policies, but on the diversity of taxpayer's views and understandings of them, especially as these views vary across gender, race, class, generation and locale (rural/urban) line. The first leg of the project was to analyze the different political, economic and social views of both anti-tax and tax justice groups. The project is now complete and published in paperback Taxes are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate by Mimi Abramovitz, Sandra Morgen, with the National Council for Research on Women.
- A human security focus made possible by a grant from the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics supported a winter 2004 speaker series "Producing Security and Insecurities" and a spring 2004 conference "The Borders of Human Security: Geopolitics Comes Home". The work considered a broad range of issues that produce security and insecurity differentially across the lines of gender, race, ethnicity and class. The work built on the success of our research and
policy work on welfare restructuring as a significant factor in
the production of economic security in the U.S.
- A conference on work, welfare and politics in 2000 with numerous participants and panels. The conference was attended by more than 500 participants and was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Labor Education and Research Center with a generous grant from the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. And the book that later came out of the conference proceedings: Work, Welfare and Politics: Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform, edited by Frances Fox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock and Sandra Morgen - published in 2002.
Contact the Women in the Northwest Research Initiative:
Center
for the Study of Women in Society
340
Hendricks Hall
1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1201
Phone: (541) 346-5015
Fax: (541) 346-5096
csws@uoregon.edu
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