Hofstra Cultural Center Labor Studies Program and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program present
Immigration and New York’s Future: 50 Years After a Landmark Law As the U.S. presidential campaign season heats up, immigration is a major topic of debate. A half-century ago, the Civil Rights Movement won passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, overturning America’s ethnocentric national admissions quotas. Since then, Asian and Latin American newcomers have dominated migration flows, dramatically reshaping the country’s population. Nowhere is this more evident than in New York. How has this affected local jobs, businesses and the immigrants themselves? We invite you to a forum that will address this question and others on major immigration policy reforms. Speakers include Tarry Hum, associate professor, Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, and Walter Barrientos, regional coordinator of the community organization Make the Road New York.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:30-6 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture. 62298:8/15