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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "O"
Olmedo, Irma
Addressing Controversy
in the Classroom: Teaching about Immigrant Rights in Chicago Schools
Irma Olmedo
Associate Professor, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 2007
GCP-07-07
This article examines the issue of teachers’ decisions to address
controversial issues as teaching opportunities in the classroom, using
the recent immigrant rights mobilizations of 2006. As public reports
of planned deportations of the undocumented were heard, especially in
communities in urban areas with high proportions of these populations,
many families were gripped with fear about their status. This research
involved exploring the classroom-based activities of Chicago teachers
to engage their students in inquiry on these issues, and the participation
and perspectives of children that resulted from these activities.
Ortiz, Victor M.
Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Economic
Development Initiatives in a Context of Global Integration
Victor M. Ortiz
May 1997
GCP-97-10
This article illustrates two local responses in El Paso, Texas, to the
ongoing integration of the U.S. and Mexican economies. The study examines
the responses of the labor and business communities. The case studies
are used to suggest new insights about the temporal and spatial dimensions
of globalization on the local level.
Orum, Anthony M.
From
Immigration Assimilation to Metropolitan Regeneration and Transformation:
Notes and Reflections on the Processes of Immigrant Settlement and Metropolitan
Change in Chicago Today
Anthony Orum
Professor, Department of Sociology
University Of Illinois at Chicago
March2004
GCP-04-02
Over the course of the past three decades more than thirty million new
immigrants have entered the United States. Most have entered the larger
metropolitan areas -- New York City, Los Angeles and Houston. This paper
discusses several of the new immigrant groups, and communities, in the
Chicago metropolitan area. It shows how and where these communities
have taken root. Using maps of the Chicago metropolitan area it also
indicates both the breadth and the concentration of several groups --
Mexican, Puerto Rican and Polish. It also compares the large group of
metropolitan residents of Polish ancestry with the location of recent
Polish immigrants.
Peering into the
Urban Future: Blurred Visions, Double Visions, and a Little Clear Thinking
Anthony M. Orum
November 1997
GCP-97-8
This essay reviews four major books that address the following conditions:
changes in the world economy that lead to capital mobility, the growing
polarity between the rich and the poor, and the political disputes,
particularly in the United States, between central cities and their
fringe areas.
The Centrality of Place:
The Urban Imagination on Sociologists
Anthony M. Orum
April 1997
GCP-97-4
This paper discusses the importance of urban place. The author conveys
his view of how place works by describing personal experiences with
urban places and by citing various perspectives on place as hope and
aspiration, place as community, and place as neighborhood.
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