|  The third annual Ferritor Lecture in
Community will feature Donald Hernandez, professor of sociology
at Albany State University of New York, speaking on “Children
in Immigrant Families in 21st Century Arkansas” at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 3, in Lecture Hall 107 of the Agricultural, Food,
and Life Sciences Building next to the Pat Walker Health Center.
His visit is being sponsored by the Jones Chair in Community of
the department of sociology in the J. William Fulbright College
of Arts and Sciences.
Hernandez formerly served as a special assistant in the U.S. Census
Bureau, and between 1996 and 1998 was study director for the Committee
on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families,
Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy
of Sciences and Institute of Medicine. In that position he had
responsibility for the National Research Council report From
Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children
in Immigrant Families and the companion volume, Children
of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance.
Hernandez is also author of America’s Children: Resources
from Family, Government, and the Economy, the first national
research effort focusing on children to document the timing, magnitude
and reasons for revolutionary changes experienced by children since
the Great Depression in terms of family composition, parent’s
education, father’s and mother’s work and family income
and poverty. This research is summarized in Trends in the Well-Being
of America’s Children and Youth: 1996.
Hernandez recently co-authored a comprehensive report on Immigration
in Arkansas funded by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
He recently completed research using Census 2000 to produce 140
indicators of children’s family and economic circumstances
for various race-ethnic and immigrant groups for the United States,
the 50 states, the District of Columbia and 200 metropolitan areas.
He just finished work on an alternative poverty measure for the
United States that overcomes limitations of the current official
measure, and on assessing the extent to which socioeconomic disparities
versus cultural differences can account for the low enrollment
in early education programs among Hispanic children in immigrant
and native-born families.
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