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Urban and Transnational Politics in America: Novus Ordo Seclorum?
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G. Cano,
## email not listed ##
, September 2004
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Government cities in the second block are well aware of the role and importance of immigrants for the city, and some of them consider creating an office that would deal with immigrant issues following the Houston, Chicago or New York models. In any instance, these cities do deal with immigrant issues through different agencies and programs within the city government structure. On March 2004, Los Angeles Mayor, Jim Hahn, and City Councilmember Eric Garcetti announced plans to create the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. This office would coordinate and promote the utilization of city services by resident immigrants and encourage their full and active civic, social, political, and economic participation in the City’s life.
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The City of Los
Angeles certainly deals with immigrant issues through a network of departments, bureaus, boards, and commissions. The City of Seattle addresses immigrant issues mainly through the Department of Neighborhoods, and the Human Services Department (HSD). The Department of Neighborhoods “works to bring government closer to the residents of Seattle by engaging them in civic participation, helping them become empowered to make positive contributions to their communities, and by involving more of Seattle’s under-represented residents, including communities of color and immigrants, in civic discourse, processes, and opportunities.”
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The
HSD, through the Division of Community Services, provides resources and direct services to low-income and homeless people of Seattle, which includes immigrant and refugee communities. The HSD has also adopted a set of community goals to guide their actions, under the premises that all people in Seattle have a right to: food to eat and roof overhead; supportive relationships within families, neighborhoods, and communities; a safe heaven from all forms of violence and abuse; health care to be as physically and mentally fit as possible; the education and job skills to lead an independent life. In San Francisco, the mission of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development (MOCD) is “to partner with the community to strengthen the physical, social and economic infrastructure of San Francisco, particularly its lowest income neighborhoods and communities.”
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This office counts
with twelve different programs that provide a wide array of services to immigrants from African, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latin American, Arab, Filipino, and Chinese origin. The services offered to immigrants are, among the most important: to provide job development/placement; to provide employment, labor, housing, immigration, public benefits and naturalization legal services; to provide vocational training; to provide bilingual job preparation, and bilingual training; to provide legal services in the areas of domestic violence; and to provide home health care training. San Francisco also counts with the Immigrant Rights Commission, whose mission is “to improve and preserve the quality of life and civic participation of all immigrants in the City and County of San Francisco.”
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The Department of Human Services, through the Cash Assistance Program for
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http://www.ci.la.ca.us/
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http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/
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http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/
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G. Cano,
## email not listed ##
, September 2004
9
Government cities in the second block are well aware of the role and importance of immigrants
for the city, and some of them consider creating an office that would deal with immigrant issues
following the Houston, Chicago or New York models. In any instance, these cities do deal with
immigrant issues through different agencies and programs within the city government structure.
On March 2004, Los Angeles Mayor, Jim Hahn, and City Councilmember Eric Garcetti
announced plans to create the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. This office would coordinate
and promote the utilization of city services by resident immigrants and encourage their full and
active civic, social, political, and economic participation in the City’s life.
5
The City of Los
Angeles certainly deals with immigrant issues through a network of departments, bureaus,
boards, and commissions.
The City of Seattle addresses immigrant issues mainly through the Department of
Neighborhoods, and the Human Services Department (HSD). The Department of Neighborhoods
“works to bring government closer to the residents of Seattle by engaging them in civic
participation, helping them become empowered to make positive contributions to their
communities, and by involving more of Seattle’s under-represented residents, including
communities of color and immigrants, in civic discourse, processes, and opportunities.”
6
The
HSD, through the Division of Community Services, provides resources and direct services to
low-income and homeless people of Seattle, which includes immigrant and refugee communities.
The HSD has also adopted a set of community goals to guide their actions, under the premises
that all people in Seattle have a right to: food to eat and roof overhead; supportive relationships
within families, neighborhoods, and communities; a safe heaven from all forms of violence and
abuse; health care to be as physically and mentally fit as possible; the education and job skills to
lead an independent life.
In San Francisco, the mission of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development (MOCD) is “to
partner with the community to strengthen the physical, social and economic infrastructure of San
Francisco, particularly its lowest income neighborhoods and communities.”
7
This office counts
with twelve different programs that provide a wide array of services to immigrants from African,
Asian, Pacific Islander, Latin American, Arab, Filipino, and Chinese origin. The services offered
to immigrants are, among the most important: to provide job development/placement; to provide
employment, labor, housing, immigration, public benefits and naturalization legal services; to
provide vocational training; to provide bilingual job preparation, and bilingual training; to
provide legal services in the areas of domestic violence; and to provide home health care
training.
San Francisco also counts with the Immigrant Rights Commission, whose mission is “to improve
and preserve the quality of life and civic participation of all immigrants in the City and County of
San Francisco.”
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The Department of Human Services, through the Cash Assistance Program for
5
http://www.ci.la.ca.us/
6
http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/
7
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/
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Idem.
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