La Caminata

If you haven't seen the film La Caminata, I highly recommend it. It is only 15 minutes long and you can stream the entire thing from snagfilms.com.

Below is a film description:

"Seven hours south of the US/Mexican Border lies the small town of Alberto, where the local community, like many pueblos across Mexico, has lost 80 percent of its population to migration into the United States. But Alberto has a plan to revive their community, the creation of a theme-park event - a simulated border crossing, complete with balaclava-clad “coyotes” as guides and “border patrol” that chase “migrants” up and down rough terrain through the night. They call this event the Caminata (translation: journey, hike, trek). The organizers designed the experience as a tool for compassion and consciousness-raising, showing the largely middle-class Mexican tourists who attend the difficulty and dangers faced by those crossing the border. Through an exploration of this unique journey, La Caminata adds a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on immigration: that of Mexicans actively fighting poverty, joblessness, and desolation in their home communities."

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/la_caminata/

Mixed Migration Conference--call for papers

The Concept of Mixed Migration: Reflecting on Today’s Migratory Policies, Movements and Paradigms Shifts
Geneva, 8-9 April 2010

A conference jointly organized by the Programme for the Study of Global Migration (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and the Institut d'Ethnologie (Université de Neuchâtel), with the support of the Division for International Protection Services of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

More information:
http://graduateinstitute.ch/globalmigration/NewsEvents/MixedMigration.html

Conference on Chicana/o literature: May 2010 Leon, Spain

http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/next-conferences/vii-congreso-internacional-de-literatura-chicana