Field Museum to Study Social Cultural Artistic Resources and Achievements of Chicago's Recent Mexican Immigrants

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How the study will be conducted
The grant , awarded in January, will allow for a series of focus groups to
identify broad issues and locations for the research to be conducted --
anything from churches to playgrounds and community centers to cafes. Asset maps are a powerful way to analyze
and represent data.

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WHERE: Texas Ballroom
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1501 Gaylord Trail
Grapevine, TX 76051
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A media Q+A session will immediately follow the panel. 'Asset Mapping' Research Collaborates With University of Illinois

CHICAGO, How do art, music and culture contribute
to the lives and communities of recent Mexican immigrants, both in Chicago and
in their communities of origin?
A new $100,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation for a one-year
ethnographic study and network analysis will help answer that question.

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to the heart of how potential changes in service offerings
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This work will help identify ways Chicago's Mexican
immigrants draw on their distinctive cultural and artistic practices while
they begin to live and work in the U. They will combine CCUC's asset mapping approach with
network asset mapping exercise, an innovative technique developed by the Team
Engineering Collaboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.

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the latest North American enterprise telecommunications
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Joseph Lueckenhoff, Vice President, Business Mobility
And Marketing, Cingular Wireless

-- Lisa Pierce, Vice President, Forrester Research
(moderator)

WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 3:35 p.
"In the end, we will understand better how artistic and cultural
activities are embedded in the lives of Chicago's Mexican immigrants and how
they are related to earlier immigrants as well as society, at large," Wali
says.

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GigaWorld IT Forum 2005

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WHAT: In the past year, 12 enterprise-class providers have either
announced or completed a merger with a former rival. "We will
map these assets and show how they contribute to the maintenance and
innovation of cultural practices, some of which may be new while others are
rooted in communities located in Chicago and Mexico.
Ultimately , the team will analyze the collected data and produce a multi-
media research report, incorporating the visual and audio documentation with
the network graphs and asset maps.

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In addition, Forrester analysts will present new research on key
issues in the telecommunications market, including:

How to effectively source IP-based wide area networks (WANs),
including an evaluation of the nine major global network
operators. Established in 1983, Forrester is headquartered in
Cambridge, Mass . This study will look at qualitative measures such as the
nature of identity formation, community building strategies, and the creative
potential of these immigrants.

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Does transnationality stretch family
networks? How do hometown associations function to maintain social ties in
Mexico? And how do immigrants use public rituals, festivals and gatherings to
improve their quality of life?
"Humans beings are successful because of our cultural diversity," says
Rebecca Severson, Manager of Urban Research Programs at The Field Museum, and
Co-Investigator of this study.

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Next, six bi-lingual, graduate-level researchers will conduct field work
from March to August, interviewing immigrants photographing events and
participating in activities, such as church services, political meetings, and
neighborhood gatherings.

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"We will identify the social assets that recent Mexican immigrants can
draw on and, ultimately, contribute to in order to create strategies for
survival, security and celebration," says Alaka Wali, Director of the Center
for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at The Field Museum, John Nuveen
Curator of Anthropology, and Principal Investigator of this study.

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A look at the next-generation network architecture. Forrester offers products and
services in four major areas: Research, Data, Consulting, and
Community.

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Research will focus on South Chicago, a north side Chicago neighborhood, and
one suburban location yet to be determined.

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Earlier immigrants tended to settle in Chicago permanently; today, many
Mexican immigrants are transnationals, crossing the border frequently and
living with one foot in each country.

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To attend the session or to request interviews, please
provide your full contact information to press@forrester.
Principal Investigator Noshir Contractor, Professor of Speech Communication
Psychology and Coordinated Science LAB, developed this study's methodology for
analyzing immigrant networks.

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Business, marketing, and IT professionals
worldwide collaborate with Forrester to align their technology
investments with their business goals.

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(NASDAQ: FORR), will bring together a panel of executives
from major providers at its GigaWorld IT Forum 2005 ,
including, but not limited to:

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A discussion on next -generation IP applications, which
Forrester calls right-time communications.
Understanding such forces will help government officials, politicians and
social service organizations formulate better policy and programs that build
on the successes and resources of Chicago's Mexican immigrants , both
artistically and economically.

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As the number of Mexican immigrants to Chicago continues to grow, much
attention has been paid to quantitative measurement of their presence in and
impact on Chicago.

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REMINDER/Telecommunications Leaders To Discuss Future Of The Industry At Forrester's GigaWorld; New Research And Analysis On Key Issues To Be Unveiled

Forrester is an independent technology research company that
provides pragmatic and forward -thinking advice about technology's
impact on business. "Unfortunately, however, we are losing much of
that diversity.