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Wednesday, Nov 3 | 11 am - 1 pm
Advancing a Community-Based Participatory Research Model for Metropolitan Regional Immigrant Integration and Receptivity through the One Region Initiative
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Abstract: Welcoming America, a nonprofit organization based in metropolitan Atlanta, has grown a membership network throughout the U.S. of nonprofit organizations and local governments that present their communities as “welcoming cities” for immigrants. In January 2018, Welcoming America launched the “One Region Initiative” to cultivate a concept of “welcoming region” to transcend municipal boundaries. The pilot initiative took place in the Atlanta metropolitan area, a major emerging immigrant gateway, and involved community listening sessions and a 56-member steering committee, representing the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The One Region Initiative disseminated recommendations to the public in a regional strategic welcoming plan in August 2018. The purpose of this paper is to examine One Region member municipalities’ implementation of the recommendations between 2019 and 2021 amid the broader multi-scalar context of changing geographies of immigrant settlement and immigration policy. We do so from a community-based participatory research framework, through participant observation as One Region steering committee members, and applied researchers who have been engaged in immigrant integration work in the Atlanta metro area and throughout the country for over a decade.
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The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC) is proud to lead these efforts and house the multi-institutional consortia, Atlanta Global Research & Education Collaborative (AGREC).
Please see below for further details about AGREC and upcoming presentations.
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UPCOMING AGREC PRESENTATIONS
Fri, November 5 | 11 am - 12 pm EST
The Global Communities Internship Program
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Wed, November 10 | 12 - 1 pm EST
Atlanta-area migrant communities and climate change: characterizing drivers of migration, exposure risks, and health vulnerabilities
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Thu, December 2 | 10 - 11 am EST
Savings Lives in the Refugee Community: A Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Stop the Bleed
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*The featured projects were funded through AGREC during AY 20-21.
**AGREC has continued to grow this year and is proud to support 9 projects engaging faculty and students from 10 universities/colleges as well as 11 community partners during AY21-22. We look forward to featuring their work next academic year! Further details will be available on the AGREC webpage soon!
New projects supported in AY 21-22:
o Global Learning for a Lifetime: Supporting Black Students at Home and Abroad
o Realizing the Vision: Designing a Community Science Collaboratory for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
o Writers Without Borders: A Human Rights Writing Project for Atlanta’s Migrant Youth
o The Global Communities Internship Program
o Supporting Holocaust Education for Atlanta Area Preservice Teachers through Collaborative Research, Resources, and Partnerships
o Connecting global and local: Curricular development and global partnership in a Korean specials class at a public elementary school
o Bringing Native Science into Atlanta’s K-12 dual language immersion: Digital curriculum development and adaptation in an APS classroom
o Cultural Sensitivity Workshop: Building Bridges
o Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Southeastern German Classrooms [pending]
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Launched in 2020 and housed within the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), AGREC is comprised of five universities:
AGSC, a partnership of Georgia Tech and Georgia State University
Emory University’s Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives (GSI)
Agnes Scott College’s SUMMIT Center for Global Learning and Leadership Development
Spelman College’s Gordon Zeto Center for Global Education
Kennesaw State University's Division of Global Affairs
The Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC) seeks to build and strengthen collaborative networks of multi-institutional scholars and practitioners to support global research and education initiatives in the Greater Atlanta region.
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