School district ESL programs:
http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/immigration/index.html

Vietnamese in Oregon

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/scholars/tianrong/tianrong.html

Oregon Diversity Events Calendar

http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/HR/docs/train/dec.pdf

International Language Bank
The International Language Bank (ILB) is a financially self-sustaining, service-oriented department of the non-profit Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO). ILB’s purpose is to provide affordable, high-quality, and culturally competent translation and interpretation services, to individuals and institutions across sectors of the community in Oregon, Southwest Washington, and beyond.

http://www.irco.org/IRCO/IntLangBank.asp
IRCO’s International Language Bank
10301 NE Glisan Street
Portland, Oregon 97220
503-234-0068

Special issues:

Domestic violence
Non-citizen survivors of domestic violence have special protection under U.S. immigration laws. http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/laws/vawo2000/welcome.html

Very good summary of information about available legal protections and cultural challenges is available at: http://www.vawnet.org/DomesticViolence/Research/VAWnetDocs/AR_immigrant.php
(A pdf file of this report is available in BrainTrust)

Additional good source of legal information is available from WomensLaw.org:
http://www.womenslaw.org/immigrants.htm

A national organization exists to address safety of immigrant women:
National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women
http://www.endabuse.org/programs/immigrant/

Human trafficking

U.S. law also targets human trafficking and offers assistance to survivors http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/laws/vawo2000/welcome.html

Dept. of Justice information: http://www.usdoj.gov/whatwedo/whatwedo_ctip.html

East West Center paper on human trafficking: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events-en-detail.asp?news_ID=132

Human Trafficking organization: http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/424

Human trafficking vs. smuggling: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/fs/2006/69386.htm

Marie has:

State of Oregon State Refugee Program Annual Report (most recent edition published in 2000).

2000 edition of Communities Beyond Neighborhood Boundaries, a resource handbook about immigrants and refugees in Portland metro area

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory Equity Center Publication: The Immigrant Experience, Pacific Northwest

Slavic Girls: Daughters of Russian-Speaking Refugees by Anne valsamakis prepared for Multnomah County Division of Community Programs and Partnerships

Program Models for Southeast Asian Youth Final Report Southeast Asian Youth Services Project of IRCO

Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder Immigrants in the United States 2000