Field Museum to Study Social Cultural Artistic Resources and Achievements of Chicago's Recent Mexican Immigrants

Understanding such forces will help government officials, politicians and
social service organizations formulate better policy and programs that build
on the successes and resources of Chicago's Mexican immigrants , both
artistically and economically.

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Commenting on the approval of its application, AngloGold Ashanti CEO Bobby
Godsell said: "I am delighted that the spirit and letter of the Mining
Charter has been fulfilled through this conversion of mining rights. This study will look at qualitative measures such as the
nature of identity formation, community building strategies, and the creative
potential of these immigrants. "Unfortunately, however, we are losing much of
that diversity.

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Principal Investigator Noshir Contractor, Professor of Speech Communication
Psychology and Coordinated Science LAB, developed this study's methodology for
analyzing immigrant networks.

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-- On Employment Equity, the company has in place a plan to ensure that a
40% HDSA representation in management is achieved by 2009.

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-- Each South African operation has a social plan in place , which seeks
to create lasting benefits for the communities in which AngloGold Ashanti
operates, while the company also has an established track record of
ensuring that employees facing retrenchment are offered training for
alternative employment options.

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'Asset Mapping ' Research Collaborates With University of Illinois

CHICAGO, How do art, music and culture contribute
to the lives and communities of recent Mexican immigrants, both in Chicago and
in their communities of origin?
A new $100,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation for a one-year
ethnographic study and network analysis will help answer that question.

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Next, six bi-lingual, graduate-level researchers will conduct field work
from March to August, interviewing immigrants photographing events and
participating in activities, such as church services, political meetings, and
neighborhood gatherings. They will combine CCUC's asset mapping approach with
network asset mapping exercise , an innovative technique developed by the Team
Engineering Collaboratory at the University of Illinois , Urbana-Champagne.

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This development is the culmination of a long but constructive engagement
with the DME, in which the company has sought to ensure a positive
beginning to the new mineral rights dispensation that South Africa has
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PRESS RELEASE AngloGold Ashanti Granted New Order Mining Rights

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AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE: AU) is pleased to announce that the company has received notification from
the Director-General of Minerals and Energy that the DME has granted its
applications for new order mining rights in terms of the Mineral Resources
and Petroleum Development Act.

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Asset maps are a powerful way to analyze
and represent data.

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How the study will be conducted
The grant, awarded in January, will allow for a series of focus groups to
identify broad issues and locations for the research to be conducted --
anything from churches to playgrounds and community centers to cafes.

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Research will focus on South Chicago, a north side Chicago neighborhood , and
one suburban location yet to be determined.

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Beyond this, the
company intends to ensure that every level of management reflects the full
cultural diversity of its South African employees .

AngloGold Ashanti believes that the new mineral rights dispensation seeks
to begin to remedy the economic legacy of apartheid by ensuring that
economic opportunity becomes available to increasing numbers of South
African citizens, while simultaneously seeking to maintain local and
international economic confidence and to promote economic growth. Does transnationality stretch family
networks? How do hometown associations function to maintain social ties in
Mexico? And how do immigrants use public rituals, festivals and gatherings to
improve their quality of life?
"Humans beings are successful because of our cultural diversity," says
Rebecca Severson, Manager of Urban Research Programs at The Field Museum, and
Co-Investigator of this study.

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"We will identify the social assets that recent Mexican immigrants can
draw on and, ultimately, contribute to in order to create strategies for
survival, security and celebration," says Alaka Wali, Director of the Center
for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at The Field Museum, John Nuveen
Curator of Anthropology , and Principal Investigator of this study. "We will
map these assets and show how they contribute to the maintenance and
innovation of cultural practices, some of which may be new while others are
rooted in communities located in Chicago and Mexico.
Ultimately, the team will analyze the collected data and produce a multi-
media research report, incorporating the visual and audio documentation with
the network graphs and asset maps.

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"In the end, we will understand better how artistic and cultural
activities are embedded in the lives of Chicago's Mexican immigrants and how
they are related to earlier immigrants as well as society, at large," Wali
says.

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This work will help identify ways Chicago's Mexican
immigrants draw on their distinctive cultural and artistic practices while
they begin to live and work in the U.

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In terms of its submission, three areas stand out:

-- With regard to equity, in addition to recognition of its transactions
with Armgold between 1998 and 2002, the company is committed to the
development of an Employee Share Ownership Scheme , with a value equivalent
to approximately 6% of the South African assets.
Earlier immigrants tended to settle in Chicago permanently; today, many
Mexican immigrants are transnationals, crossing the border frequently and
living with one foot in each country.

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This
decision brings certainty to our shareholders and it offers our employees
and the communities in which we operate new opportunities for sharing in
the wealth creation of our company. I also believe that the empowerment
process initiated by government represents a vital and legitimate
investment in the future of our country .

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As the number of Mexican immigrants to Chicago continues to grow, much
attention has been paid to quantitative measurement of their presence in and
impact on Chicago.