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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:56.0pt;line-height:115%">Race, Religion and U.S. Immigration Today<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Political Integration of Indian Americans</span></b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;line-height:115%">Dr. Prema Kurien<br>
Maxwell School of Syracuse University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">This project focuses on the political mobilization of Indian Americans and contributes to understanding the political incorporation of U.S. immigrants by examining how first- and
second-generation immigrants mobilize advocacy organizations around ethnic, pan-ethnic, religious, and party-oriented identities. It also reveals how race and religion interact in complex ways to shape the political integration of immigrants.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"> Prema Kurien</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">, professor of sociology and director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University,
is the author of two award-winning books, <i>Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India,
</i>and <i>A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%">Environment 3 Building, Room 4408 (EV3-4408), UW
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Thursday, January 31, 2013, 2:30-4:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%">Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, University of Waterloo, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University and the
Department of Sociology, University of Waterloo</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">David Seljak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">Associate Professor of Religious Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">St. Jerome's University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">Chair, Department of Religious Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">Phone: 519-884-8111, ext. 28232<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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