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Hannah Gill directs the Latino Migration Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-founded its Building Integrated Communities program, which since 2010 has helped North Carolina local governments plan with immigrant residents. Chapel Hill was a partner community. She studied anthropology at UNC and holds a doctorate from Oxford.
Source: UNC Global Affairs: Global Heel Profile: Hannah Gill and the Building Integrated Communities Program
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Background reading on Latino migration to Carrboro and Chapel Hill. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Hannah Gill. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Katie R. Almirall's senior honors thesis statement, written to accompany her exhibition in the Center Gallery of the ArtsCenter in Carrboro from April 2 to 28, 2007. Twenty one leaves with illustrations, describing collaborative art work with Latino young people in the town. Topics include community arts projects and Hispanic American youth in Carrboro.
An action oriented community diagnosis of the Latino community in northern Orange County, dated the tenth of May 2005 and produced at Chapel Hill. It sets out findings on health status and socioeconomic conditions and closes with proposed next steps for action. Topics include community health services, health status and socioeconomic factors. A bibliography runs across pages 78 and 79.
Patricia C. Robbins looked at how undocumented Hispanic women in Chapel Hill and Carrboro reach medical care, in a 2005 paper of 56 leaves with a bibliography. It concerns medical care for Hispanic American women in the two towns. Of use to anyone tracing local public health and immigration work in the mid 2000s.
Action oriented community diagnosis of the Latino community in Carrboro, completed in May 2003 by students in health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fifty-two pages with 98 leaves, illustrations and forms. Topics include Hispanic Americans in Carrboro, public health, and the town's social and economic conditions in the twenty-first century.
Jessica Farb's 2003 study of lavaplatos, the dishwashers in Chapel Hill restaurants, and of how these Latin American workers understand their own ethnic identity and that of the people around them. Topics include Latin American employment and ethnic identity in Chapel Hill and restaurant employees there. A student paper, with a bibliography on leaves 67 to 71.
An ethnography of a Hispanic Protestant congregation, Iglesia Unida de Cristo in Chapel Hill, written by Enrique Armijo in 2000. The typescript runs one hundred twenty-one leaves with a bibliography at the end. Topics include Hispanic Americans, Latin Americans and immigrants in Chapel Hill along with the congregation itself.
Caroline S. Papa's 1998 account of the growing Latino community in Chapel Hill, with attention to immigration to the town and to the Iglesia Unida de Cristo congregation. Fifty eight pages with illustrations and two unnumbered leaves, closing with a bibliography. Topics include Hispanic Americans, Latin Americans and immigrants in Chapel Hill at the end of the century.
Folder on the Hispanic and Latino community of Chapel Hill, not yet inventoried. From the Chapel Hill History series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
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Stories of Mexican migrants told through a collaboration of the anthropologist Hannah Gill, the artist Todd Drake and migrant communities in Carrboro and Celaya, Guanajuato, subtitled narrating Mexican migrant experiences. It deals with migrant labor and Mexican workers in Carrboro and emigration from Celaya. Published by the University Center for International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006, 78 pages with color illustrations.
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