Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/17
Outputs
Target Audience:Although my final target audience include Hispanic community residents and leaders, policy makers, and other public officials, program administrators, and community residents in general, this year I worked closely with Michigan's State Demographer and a Labor Market analyst, both government employees with the Department of Technology, Management & Budget, Bureau of Labor Market Information & Strategic Initiatives. We teamed up to analyze census data in regard to the Latino population in the state and have plans to publish the material in a book. Changes/Problems:The approach called for developing a rural Latino data system, but the task of pursuing an electronic version of a system that can be updated on a regular basis base, proved cost prohibiitve. Funding and student help or other assistance on this project was difficult to secure. The PI was the only research associated with this project for much of the project's existance. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The research has presented opportunities to better understand the fundamental of Latino demography and census data at the state level. It has also brought me in contact with important individuals in state goverment who are indispensible to this work. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The research conducted on the Latino population in the state of Michgan will be disseminated through the publication of book that will be completed in about a year. Publication of the some of the information in the chapters will also occur through journal publications. It is also our intent to disseminate some of the data collected in the form of fact sheets to be used by Extension. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The goal of this five-year project was to design, implement and sustain a Rural Latino Communities in Michigan research and outreach program. The purpose of the program was to support development of a Rural Latino Communities data system to 1) collect, analyze, and disseminate accurate information on the characteristics and conditions of rural Hispanics in rural communities across the state, and 2) to monitor change in these conditions over time was not accomplished but was advanced and will continue. There were advances in all three objectives of the study, but work remains to achieve all three objectives as well as the goal of having a Rural Latino Communities data system that serves the needs of Latinos in the state. The purpose of the research program was to support development of a Rural Latino Communities data system. Much of the work from the first few years of the project was data search, collection and analysis intensive. The project took a huge step forward about a year ago when the PI entered a collaborative relationship with Michigan's state demographer Eric Guthrie and research analyst, Leonidas Murembya, both in the Department of Technology, Management & Budget, Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives in the state government. Our collaborative efforts this past year has resulted in a book proposal accepted by MSU Pres for future publication. The book is entitled: Latinos and the Michigan Economy: People, Regions, and Places. It will provide a state, regional and local analysis and look at both rural and urban communities. Our goal is to complete write-up of the book by the end of next year. Over the last few months, the focus of our efforts have been on a chapter on Latino population growth in the state. We trace the growing number and widespread settlement of the Latino population in the state over the last 35 years, from the 1980s to the present. We are also doing some additional state level work on Hispanics in the Labor force. A more comprehensive view of the book follows: Part One of the book will provide a statewide view of the demographic and socioeconomic status of the Latino population and identifies different issues at the state level relevant to understanding Latinos in the Michigan economy and their socioeconomic and political conditions and their causes. The chapters provide an insightful, in-depth look at the forces shaping the Hispanic economy in the state. Topics covered in this section include the growth of the population and its geographic dispersion, as well as household, labor force, purchasing power, wealth, business and entrepreneurship, education, youth, and politics and acculturation. The analysis considers changes in these characteristics over four Census periods (1980 to 2010) to assess the relative progress in socioeconomic status of this population over time relative to non-Latinos. Part Two of the book consists of chapters that place Latinos in a regional and local context. We will use Census PUMAs micro data delineate regional areas and analyze Latino performance across the cities. We will also compare the socioeconomic conditions of Latinos in Michigan regions and cities to the state as a whole as well as in relation to each other. Part Three of the book revisits the indicators of Latino performance to project trends and consider the theories that exist to explain these data. The implications of the findings for state and local policy are also considered. Immigration and gender issues also receive special attention in this part of the book. Rural and urban distinctions in the population are drawn. In addition, the conducting analysis of census data on Hispanics in Michigan, we also plan to conduct interviews with Latinos from across the state. The production of a book on Michigan Latinos will be the first major product of the Rural Latino Communities in Michigan research and outreach program. However, the effort is very different from the development of a database we had planned to establish to serve the needs of rural Latinos. Although working on a book is not where we want to be at the end of this five-year effort, the book represents a start in the direction of developing a systemic approach in data collection and analysis that is currently needed to better understand the conditions of the Latino population in the state.
Publications
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Rosenbaum, R.P., (2016) 'Leveraging Hispanic/Latino State Commissions to Advance Extension's Diversity Agenda' Journal of Extension, Volume 54 (6).
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
" Rosenbaum, R.P., (2017) Policy-Induced Disparities in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Teacher Qualifications in Teacher College Record, v119 n6 2017.
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Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16
Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences reached by the PI's efforts during thi reporting period include Hispanic diary workers and migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Michigan, personnel from the Mason-Oceana Department of Health and Human Services, faculty from the Department of Agriculture, Food and Economics, Michigan's State Demographer, and researchers with the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget. These groups and organizations have provided data on Hispanics useful to the study. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?1)I plan to collaborate with Michigan's State Demogrpapher and researchers in Michigan's Department of Technology and Mangement and Buddget to produce a book on Hispanic and the Michigan Economy. 2) Plan to work with faculty in the Department of Agriculture, Food, and Economics to better understand the issues confronting Hispanic diary workers in Michigan. 3) Plan to develop databases on the Hispanic population in the state of Michigan.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) Wrote a proposal to Comerica Bank to funded a research project with the goal of expanding the knowledge base of Hispanics in Michigan bydocumenting the nature and magnitude of the state's Hispanic population and business sector and estimating its social and economic impacts at the level of individual counties, metro areas, and thestate as a whole. Unfortunately, the proposal was not funded. 2) The PI was Co-PI on a proposal funded by the Rackham Foundation to investigate labor issues in th Hispanic workforce in Michigan's dairy industry. 3) Formed partnerships with Michigan's State Demographer and researchers in the Michigan Department of Technology , Manangment, and Budget to research the Hispanic popuation in Michigan. 4) Identified and updated databases on the Hispanic population in MIchigan.
Publications
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Progress 10/01/14 to 09/30/15
Outputs
Target Audience:This reporting period we reached out to Hispanic rural residents and Hispanic migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Van Buren and Oceana Counties. Changes/Problems:This year I worked at integrating my research project activities with my responsibilites in Extension. I currently have an Extension appointment and linking my Hispanic data collect efforts to the programatic needs of Extension has created opportunity to collaborat with Extension program leaders. Prioritizing my data collection in this way has helped me leverage the support of Extension personnel in writing grant proposals to collect primary data on Hispanics. Adding a primary data component to the data collection process makes my data collection efforts more useful to Extension program development as well as broadens the scope of the Rural Hispanic database development project. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?I had an opportunity to learn about the Smart Choice Health Insurance Extension Education program. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Secure grant funding to hire graduate students to help develop input data on indicators of the characteristics and conditions of rural Hispanic and establish a webpage pressence. Finalize secondary database developent Survey community leaders and Hispanic community representatives and residents. Conduct funded outreach/research project activities and collect primary data on Hispanics in communiteis accross the state. Finalize statewide report on Hispanic demographic data by zip code and disseminate findings Hispanic demographic community impacts to Public officials and Hispanic community leaders and residents.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The goal to design, implkent, and sustain a Rural Latino Communities in Michigan reseach and outreach program to support the development of of a Rural Latino Communities data system to collect, anaalyze, and dissemiate accurate infomriton on the characterisicts and conditions of rural Hispancis in rurual communties across the state, as well as monitor change in these conditions over time. Accomplishments toward this goal include: 1) made great strides in networking and collaborating with Extension on diversity matters and Hispanic data needs to produce the following: Activiites: Collaborated in the development of a Needs Assessment Instrument for Native American in the greater Detroit Area; Collaborated on the development of three proposals: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Michigan Nursery and Lanscape Industry; Rural Hispanics and Disaster preparedness; and Health Insurance and Rural Hispanics 2) Currently have two rural Latino manuscripts under review. 3) Made 5 presentation on rural Hispanic related topics at national and international conferences. 4) Consulted with community leaders on data needs and Extension programs . 5) Inputted census data and dvanced development of the Michigan Rural Hispanic Data Base.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Castaneda S.F., Rosenbaum, R.P., Holscher, J.T., Madanat, H. Talavera, G.A., Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, Journal Of Agromedicine. Volume 20, Issue 2, 2015 (p. 95-104).
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Progress 10/01/13 to 09/30/14
Outputs
Target Audience: Spent time developing relationships and identifying needs at three Hispanic community centers in three regions of the state. Met numerous times, exchanged e-mails, and are currently collaborating on identifying research and outreach funding opportunities. Changes/Problems: Objective 1 activities related to completion of Object 1 of this project was delayed for a number of reasons, but primarily because of the time it takes to do tha data collection and analysis and the inability to secure funding at this point to hire students to help with the analysis. Consequenly, efforts to disseminate findings was delayed as was my opportunity to obtain GIS training, as planned. A major issue in my approach has been the challenge to leverage Extension support for my project. That is changing as I have clarified my relationship with MSU Extension to make for a more effective partnershp. The revised Logic model of the MSU Extension Greening Michigan Institute--Community Food Stytems Workgroup has a couple of signature programs that I plan to leverage to advance my program work. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Hired one undergraduate student to assist with data analysis of the 2010 census data and had one graduate student assist me in identifying datasets of different census products pretaining to hispanics. Met with Hispanic leaders of community-based organizations and oriented them about funding opportunities external and internal to MSU. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? 1. Publish a manuscript on the demographic impact of Hispanics in Michigan 2.Partner with MSU Extension, Hispanic community centers, Hispanic businesses, and other Hispanic led organizations to develop a grant proposal to conduct asset mapping of Hispanics in rural communties in Michigan 3. Partner with MSU Extension, Hispanic community centers, Hispanic businesses, and other organizatins in developing a Hispanics and the Envioronment program and a Hispanics and Food Justice to advance my project objects and goals. 4. Conduct surveys of entities in the Hispanic community: e.g., Hispanic Community Centers, Hispanic Businesses, farmworkers (diary and vegetables)
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The following activites were accomplished under the goal of enhacing the capacity of Michigan's rural communities and rural Latino communties to work together to address quality of life issues of Latino residents and successfully resond to the dynamic change and challenges in this rural areas through the development of the rural Latino communities in Michigan program to collect, analyze and disseminate accurate information on Latinos: 1) secondary data collection and analysis and database development planning were continued to advance Objective 1; 2) undergraduate student was hired and mentored in the process of doing data analysis; 3) recruited a graduate student to assisted in identifying census data Hispanic data bases; 4) expanded target audience and research and outreacher paraterns and bettered relationships with Hispanic community leaders and community based organizations, and entered into understanding to work together in identifying funding opportunities to undertake reachedagreed to collaborate on midentifystarget audience in communities for purposes of conducting cross-sectional case study as identified in Objective 2; 5) drafted documents related to data analysis of Census data on Hispanics; 6) imporved partnership with Extension to contribute to and leverage the support of following MSU Extension Greening Micigan Institute --Community Food Systesm Workgroup signature programs: Food and Farming Business Development; 2) public education on understanding food suystems and food hubs; and diversity and civil rights
Publications
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Progress 01/01/13 to 09/30/13
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Provided training to 1 undergraduate student on census data research 101. Student is identifying data sources and conducting preliminary analysis of data. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? 1) Complete objective 1 of the study; 2) get GIS training to facilitate GIS and data visualization analyses; and 3) disseminate findings through publications and conference presentations.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Major Activiites Accomplished: a) hired an undergraudate student to help me with analysis; 2) identified relevant databases and literature reveiw; 3) began census data analysis of Michigan Hispanic demographic data by different geographical units;complied a draft report of an outreach document entitled: Michigan's Latino Population 2010 Census Data Visualization; and 4) identify community partners and wrote an unfunded grant proposal to the USDA targetting one of the geographical areas selected for the study; 5) mentored undergraduate student in the conduct of census data collection and analysis. Specific Objectives Met: This year's efforts contribute to the protecess of completeing objective 1: conduct a statewide analysis of current and past Census data and other secondary data on ruran Hispanics. The work completed also contributed to objectives 2 and 3, which are related to outcomes from Ojbecive one. Significant results achieved: Draft report of demographic impact of Hispanic population change over the 2000-2010 period was produced.
Publications
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Progress 01/01/12 to 12/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: This project commenced in September, 2012 and its status is such that it is too soon to report but only limited outcomes. Activities include preliminary census data analysis of rural Hispanics in Michigan for project and database development planning. Products included collaborations fostered by the project with the Oceana County Economic Development Corporation and The Starting Block, Inc.,a West Michigan Regional Kitchen Incubator that grows entrepreneurs in food systems and natural resources. In addition, did networking with specialists in the Rural Development Office in Michigan. PARTICIPANTS: Currently I am the only individual who has worked on this project. However, i have been in communications with Ron Stein director of the Oceana County Economic Development Corporation and The Starting Block, Inc.,a West Michigan Regional Kitchen Incubator that grows entrepreneurs in food systems and natural resources. He and I plan to submit a AFRI Agricultural Economics & Rural Communities Competitive Grant Program proposal. I have also talked to Jason Church and Bobbie Morrison at the Rural Development State office. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
The status of the project is such that it is too early to report outcomes and impacts.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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