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Immigrant Mobilization Project PDF Print E-mail
The Immigrant Mobilization Project is led by Professors Nilda Flores-Gonzalez and Amalia Pallares and numerous faculty, undergraduate and graduate students.  The purpose of the project is to study the immigrant mobilizations in Chicago, including participants, organizers, and the political conditions, resources and ideological frames that led to this mass movement.  This project includes surveys of participants during the May 1 marches in 2006 and 2007 and subsequent in-depth interviews with participants, organizers, and leaders of organizations and institutions that participated in the mobilizations.
 
The Youth and Religion Project PDF Print E-mail
The Youth and Religion Project housed at UIC sociology department  studies the role of religion in the lives of American young people (ages 8-25) and the efforts of religious institutions to  ddress their needs and their processes of faith formation.  
 
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