Funded by a grant from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars(with support from the MacArthur Foundation), this project is part of a broader national study that examines Latin America migrants in selected cities in the United States. The goal of the project is to explore patterns of civic engagement and political participation among Latin American migrants and Latinos in the Las Vegas, Nevada, metropolitan area. A secondary, but not less important, goal is to understand the factors that contribute to or inhibit the ability of individuals from Latin America to acquire U.S citizenship. The issues addressed by this study are highly salient in Nevada and the United States, but they also have relevance to researchers and policy analyst who seek to understand the relationship between civic engagement and different forms of political participation in both a local and a binational context. (Description from Source)
