| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Kitty Calavita |
Collisions at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws |
40 Law and Society Review 249 (June, 2006) |
During the height of the exclusion era, when Asian immigrants were prohibited from naturalizing and becoming United States citizens, state and federal court judges around the country naturalized at least 500 Asian immigrant servicepersons and veterans. Between 1918 and 1925, Federal Bureau of Naturalization officials and state and federal court... |
2019 |
| Paulina Sosa |
The Regulatory Leash of the One-year Refugee Travel Document |
52 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 273 (Winter, 2019) |
This article focuses on two of the earliest Chinese law students in the United States who deployed their legal knowledge and advocacy skills to fight against the Chinese Exclusion Act and its related laws in the early 1900s. Ho Yow, the fourth Chinese national to ever attend law school in the United States, performed this courageous task as Chinese... |
2019 |
| Mary Therese O'Sullivan |
A Paradox in Employment: the Contradiction That Exists Between Immigration Laws and Outsourcing Practices, and its Impact on the Legal and Illegal Minority Working Classes |
6 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 111 (Fall, 2012) |
After a campaign denigrating Muslims as sick people, blaming the children of Muslim Americans for terrorism, and promising to shut down Muslim immigration, and mere days after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump banned the nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entry into the United States. In the litigation that followed,... |
2019 |
| Kenzo S. Kawanabe |
American Anti-immigrant Rhetoric Against Asian Pacific Immigrants: the Present Repeats the past |
10 Georgtown Immigration Law Journal 681 (Summer, 1996) |
As candidate and President, Donald Trump has unabashedly expressed his disdain for immigrants of color and demonstrated an unmistakable commitment to restrict their immigration to the United States. Contemptuous words about immigrants translated into concrete policies designed to restrict the number of immigrants entering and remaining in the... |
2019 |
| Louis Henkin |
An Immigration Policy for a Just Society? |
31 San Diego Law Review 1017 (FALL 1994) |
Asylees, refugees, and some Lawful Permanent Residents must obtain a Refugee Travel Document (RTD) from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to travel abroad. These non-citizens cannot use passports from their home country, as doing so could result in a loss of their asylee or refugee status. RTDs are only valid for one year and must... |
2019 |
| Anita Sinha |
Arbitrary Detention? The Immigration Detention Bed Quota |
12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 77 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 156 II. Background Of Immigration Issues and Form I-407. 158 A. Presumption of Abandonment of Permanent Resident Status Upon Leaving United States for a Long Period of Time. 159 B. Purpose and Advantages of Form I-407. 160 C. Internal Agency Documents and Manuals Regarding Form I-407. 161 III. How Do We Know... |
2019 |
| Harvey Gee |
Changing Landscapes: the Need for Asian Americans to Be Included in the Affirmative Action Debate |
32 Gonzaga Law Review 621 (1996-1997) |
Current immigration law in the United States is rife with racially motivated biases necessitating immediate correction. Among the many problems with current law, constitutional rights are withheld from a large populace. This article reflects upon the history of immigration law in the United States, noting key decisions which have formed the status... |
2019 |
| Glenys P. Spence |
Colonial Relics: Unearthing the Lingering Tyranny of Colonial Discourse in U.s.-caribbean Immigration Law and Policy |
26 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 127 (Fall 2011) |
During the Lochner era, the Supreme Court shielded liberty of contract and property rights; it privileged private ordering and restrained the reach of government regulation; and it embraced robust conceptions of national sovereignty with respect to immigration and trade. Though Lochner itself remains an anti-canonical case, many of the conceptions... |
2019 |
| Sherally Munshi |
Race, Geography, and Mobility |
30 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 245 (Winter, 2016) |
Legitimation represents a widening chasm at the intersection of immigration and family law. Agencies' and courts' persistent misguided reliance on biology as a paramount dispositive factor in determining who qualifies as a family for the purposes of immigration and nationality is increasingly at odds with family law's growing aspiration of a... |
2019 |
| Laura A. Hernández |
The Constitutional Limits of Supply and Demand: Why a Successful Guest Worker Program must Include a Path to Citizenship |
10 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 251 (June, 2014) |
The increased public exposure to the experiences of Latinx unaccompanied children seeking entry at the United States southern border has revealed the lived reality of the nation's pernicious immigration laws. The harrowing experiences of unaccompanied children are amplified by their interaction with a legal system plagued by a legacy of systemic... |
2019 |