{"id":44,"date":"2017-08-04T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2018-06-13T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:49:52","slug":"community-of-practice-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Community of Practice Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_pb_section--with-menu et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_fullwidth_header et_pb_fullwidth_header_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_container left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"header-content-container 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Notes<\/h1><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1>August 17, 2017 - First Meeting<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early in the morning of August 17, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/participants\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eight faculty and staff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from six midwestern colleges opened the Engage Immigration project with a three-hour video conference. \u00a0We committed ourselves to a ten-month effort to become academic companions who do intellectually rich work about immigration and community-based learning. \u00a0We aim to craft models for engaged immigration studies that move past volunteering and service learning, towards a richer public scholarship that uses and contributes to findings from the social sciences and history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We started by telling our \u201cstories of self,\u201d inspired by Marshall Ganz\u2019s ideas about public narrative. \u00a0Our paths to liberal arts college life in small, midwestern towns began in different places across the midwest, sure, but also Florida, New York City, California, Spain and England. \u00a0We all put teaching at the heart of who we are and what we do. \u00a0And in choosing to teach about immigration, all of us understand ourselves to be revealing connections between our small, local communities and global processes and patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a first step, we promised to find good readings to share; to discuss the ethics of oral history, social science research and digital communication; to think together about taking students into off-campus \u201cfields\u201d whether near or far; and to take care not to promise more than we can deliver to our community partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>---- Kathy<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_2  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>Workshop 2 - September 13, 2017<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we discussed books and articles we would recommend others to read and\/or would like to read with the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of us took turns \u201cpitching\u201d books to the group. Titles of interest included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520282759\"><em>The Land of Open Graves<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Jason De Leon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10241.html\"><em>Impossible Subjects<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Mae Ngai,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520287266\"><em>Lives in Limbo<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Undocumented and Coming of Age in America<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Roberto Gonzales,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/47peh2bq9780252038310.html\"><em>Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Jose Angel N.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iupress.indiana.edu\/product_info.php?products_id=807778\"><em>Global Heartland<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Faranak Miraftab,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\/titles\/2180_reg.html\"><em>A Midwestern Mosaic: Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by J. Celeste Lay,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sty.presswarehouse.com\/books\/BookDetail.aspx?productID=459460\"><em>Community-Based Research: Teaching for Community Impact\u00a0<\/em><\/a>edited by Mary Beckman and Joyce Long,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/interpretingdifficulthistory.com\/\">Interpreting Difficult History at Museum and Historic Sites<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Julia Rose, and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/race-rights-and-the-asian-american-experience\/9780813539027\">Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Angelo Ancheta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For our next meeting, we decided to discuss the topic of conducting ethical work in CBL&amp;R that focuses on immigration by reading some key articles concentrating on this topic alongside the introduction and chapter 3 of\u00a0<em>The Land of Open Graves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also identified a potential topic for a future time meeting: \u201cMidwest Contexts of Reception.\u201d Given the location of the ACM schools, we thought spending some time together to specifically discuss immigration to rural areas and\/or small towns in our immediate vicinity makes sense. We thought pairing parts of\u00a0<em>Global Heartland\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>A Midwestern Mosaic\u00a0<\/em>would provide good fodder for this future discussion.<\/p>\n<p>--- Emily<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_3  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>Workshop 3 -\u00a0November 1, 2017<\/h2>\n<p>During our third meeting, we briefly revisited our list of potential texts to read and added to the materials. Several faculty shared work that they were engaging in with students. Tim offered the following websites that his students have developed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Central-Illinois-DACA-Resources-272015686629626\/?ref=bookmarks\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Central-Illinois-DACA-Resources-272015686629626\/?ref=bookmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Immigration-101-Inmigraci%C3%B3n-101-1571498299583788\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Immigration-101-Inmigraci%C3%B3n-101-1571498299583788\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participants have expressed appreciation for the sharing of sources and resources as a way to increase our individual knowledge and capacity to teach and research in our individual institutions.<\/p>\n<p>We then split the remaining time between a more applied discussion of the ethics of and best practices around engaged scholarship with immigrants and refugees, and an analysis of sections of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520282759\"><em>Land of Open Graves<\/em><\/a>, an ethnography of the border crossing zone. In our discussion of best practices, we felt strongly that in researching immigrant communities, questions of IRB and informed consent took on more a nuanced nature. Thus we want to spend more time reflecting on informed consent in our next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In our discussion of <em>Land of Open Graves<\/em>, we wrestled with witnessing violence vs. describing it in such a way that violence is glorified. We agreed that mixed methods approaches provided new ways to consider well studied topics.<\/p>\n<p>For our next meeting, we plan to continue the combination of discussion of ethical questions and cases from written books with an examination of the opportunities and challenges of oral history as a method.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_4  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_4  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>Workshop 4<\/h2>\n<p>Notes will be uploaded shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Workshop 5 - March 16, 2018<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During our fifth meeting, we discussed useful data sources in our research on immigration at multiple levels including local, state, federal, and international levels. We also identified notable gaps in research and agreed to keep looking for sources in preparation for our conference. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We then used the remaining time to discuss <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Midwestern Mosaic. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants were struck by the powerful use of time and place in the book. We discussed the connection between the book and the Rural Immigration Network, and further ruminated on political participation and community engagement. We agreed that it would be interesting to update the research in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Midwestern Mosaic <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to see what the findings would be in the current context<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We used the remainder of the time to discuss details of the upcoming conference in June. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1539,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-blank.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/engage-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}