| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Howard F. Chang |
Liberalized Immigration as Free Trade: Economic Welfare and the Optimal Immigration Policy |
145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1147 (May, 1997) |
Introduction. 1148 I. National Economic Welfare. 1157 A. Effects of Immigration Through the Labor Market. 1158 B. External Effects of Immigration. 1163 C. The Optimal Tariff on Unskilled Immigrants. 1166 D. The Optimal Tariff on Skilled Immigrants. 1168 E. Immigration of Nuclear Families. 1172 F. Future Generations. 1172 G. Avoiding External Costs.... |
1997 |
| Tisha R. Tallman |
Liberty, Justice, and Equality: an Examination of Past, Present, and Proposed Immigration Policy Reform Legislation |
30 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 869 (Summer 2005) |
I. Introduction. 869 II. The Current State. 872 A. The Current System: The Problem Defined. 872 B. The Current Immigration Structure. 873 C. Current Immigration Enforcement Policies. 874 D. Our Current System's Relation to Labor. 879 E. Positive Economic Contributions of Immigrants. 881 III. A Historical Perspective. 883 IV. Proposed Legislation.... |
2005 |
| Panelists Hasan Shafiqullah, Amy Taylor, Martin Batalla, Michael Wildes, Anthony Enriquez, Moderated by: Javeria Ahmed, Attorney-in-Charge, Immigration Law Unit, The Legal Aid Society, Director of Legal Services, Make the Road New York, Member, Make the R |
Life after Daca: Immigration Reform in the Age of Trump |
24 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 105 (Fall, 2017) |
MS. JAVERIA AHMED: Hi everyone. Can you hear me okay? Welcome to the Fall Symposium for the Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice. My name is Javeria Ahmed, I'm the Editor in Chief and I'm really excited to have you guys with us tonight. The topic that we'll be discussing is the revocation of DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals... |
2017 |
| Nadia E. Brown , Danielle C. Lemi |
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: Black Women Candidates and the Democratic Party |
100 Boston University Law Review 1613 (October, 2020) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 1614 I. Black Women Candidates and Party Politics. 1617 A. Democratic Party. 1617 B. Black Women Candidates. 1620 II. Data and Methods. 1623 A. The Sample. 1623 B. The Method. 1625 III. Black Women Candidates' Experiences with the Democratic Party. 1626 A. The Democratic Party: Gatekeeping and Racial Politics. 1626 B. The... |
2020 |
| Leslye Orloff |
Lifesaving Welfare Safety Net Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children: Accomplishments and next Steps |
7 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 597 (Spring, 2001) |
The United States is currently experiencing one of the largest waves of immigration in its history. Contrary to common assumptions, more than half of new immigrants are women. Despite this fact, U.S. immigration policy and most agencies serving immigrants have remained blind to gender differences and have treated all immigrants alike. Immigrant... |
2001 |
| Juliet P. Stumpf, Stephen Manning |
LIMINAL IMMIGRATION LAW |
108 Iowa Law Review 1531 (May, 2023) |
ABSTRACT: Liminal immigration rules operate powerfully beyond the edge of traditional law to govern the movement of people across borders and their interactions with the immigration system within the United States. This Article illuminates this body of liminal law, revealing how agencies and advocates have innovated to create widely followed... |
2023 |
| Cassandra Burke Robertson , Irina D. Manta |
Litigating Citizenship |
73 Vanderbilt Law Review 757 (April, 2020) |
By what standard of proof--and by what procedures--can the U.S. government challenge citizenship status? That question has taken on greater urgency in recent years. News reports discuss cases of individuals whose passports were suddenly denied, even after the government had previously recognized their citizenship for years or even decades. The... |
2020 |
| Jason A. Gillmer |
LITIGATING SLAVERY'S REACH: A STORY OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND THE LAW DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH |
56 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 499 (Spring, 2023) |
In May 1852, Charles Perkins decided he wanted his slaves back. Born in Mississippi, Charles emigrated to California in 1849 during the height of the Gold Rush. When he came, like hundreds of others from Southern states, he also brought three enslaved men with him. Following California's admission to the Union as a free state, however, Charles... |
2023 |
| Jason G. Idilbi |
Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law: Should North Carolina Communities Implement 287(g) Authority? |
86 North Carolina Law Review 1710 (September, 2008) |
Introduction. 1710 I. Section 287(g) and the Structure and Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law at the State and Local Level. 1714 II. The Use of 287(g) Agreements in North Carolina and State Encouragement. 1718 III. The Effects of Immigration in North Carolina and Benefits of 287(g) Agreements. 1720 IV. Drawbacks of 287(g) Agreements. 1725 A.... |
2008 |
| Rick Su |
Local Fragmentation as Immigration Regulation |
47 Houston Law Review 367 (Spring 2010) |
I. Introduction. 368 II. The Intersection of Immigration and Local Government Law. 371 A. Space, Immigration, and the Internalization of Boundary Controls. 373 1. The Multiple Significance of Spatial Fragmentation. 373 2. The Joint Construction of Spatial Fragmentation. 378 3. The Shared History of Spatial Fragmentation. 383 B. Community,... |
2010 |
| Ingrid V. Eagly |
Local Immigration Prosecution: a Study of Arizona Before Sb 1070 |
58 UCLA Law Review 1749 (August, 2011) |
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 has focused attention on whether federal law preempts the prosecution of state immigration crime in local criminal courts. Absent from the current discussion, however, is an appreciation of how Arizona's existing body of criminal immigration law--passed well before SB 1070 and currently in force in the state--functions on... |
2011 |
| Azadeh Shahshahani |
Local Police Entanglement with Immigration Enforcement in Georgia |
2017 Cardozo Law Review de novo 105 (2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 105 I. Section 287(g). 106 II. House Bill 87. 111 III. Secure Communities. 113 IV. Priority Enforcement Program. 116 Conclusion. 118 |
2017 |
| Linda Reyna Yanez , Alfonso Soto |
Local Police Involvement in the Enforcement of Immigration Law |
1 Hispanic Law Journal L.J. 9 (1994) |
C1-6TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-6 I. L2-5,T5Introduction 11 II. L2-5,T5Risk of Civil Rights Violations 12 A. L3-5,T5Reported Incidents 13 1. L4-5,T5United States v. Perez-Castro 14 2. L4-5,T5Cervantez v. Withfield 14 B. L3-5,T5Constitutional Standards at Issue 15 1. L4-5,T5Search and Seizure Law 16 2. L4-5,T5Equal Protection 20 III. L2-5,T5Defining the... |
1994 |
| Bharath Gururagavendran |
LOCATING NOVEL PROTECTIONS FOR THE TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW |
27 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 101 (Fall, 2023) |
The international community is currently in the process of establishing multiple frameworks for protecting the traditional knowledge (TK) of indigenous peoples including through initiatives such as the Nagoya Protocol (under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)), and the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic... |
2023 |
| Juliet P. Stumpf |
Looking for Wrongs in All the Right Places |
42 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 191 (Spring 2016) |
This contribution to the symposium on crimmigration law identifies Padilla v. Kentucky as the center of gravity of contemporary crimmigration law. This essay describes Padilla v. Kentucky as modeling a counter-intuitive approach to recognition of rights. Rather than seeking to sow a right to counsel in the contested field of immigration law,... |
2016 |
| James M. Rice |
Looking past the Label: an Analysis of the Measures Underlying "Sanctuary Cities" |
48 University of Memphis Law Review 83 (Fall, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 85 II. Background. 90 A. Religious Community Development of the Sanctuary Movement. 90 B. Increased Interior Enforcement and the Expansion of the Sanctuary Movement. 92 III. Immigration Enforcement and The Impact of Sanctuary Measures. 96 A. Level of Immigration Enforcement. 97 B. The Effect of Sanctuary Measures on ICE. 98 1.... |
2017 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Los Olvidados: Images of the Immigrant, Political Power of Noncitizens, and Immigration Law and Enforcement |
1993 Brigham Young University Law Review 1139 (1993) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1140 II. Political Power of the New Immigrants. 1149 A. Immigrants Past and Present. 1150 1. Limitations on noncitizen influence. 1153 2. The vocal, sometimes successful, minority. 1158 B. The New Nativism and Its Impact. 1162 C. Political Failure and Haitian Repatriation. 1175 D. Preliminary Observations.... |
1993 |
| Juan F. Perea |
Los Olvidados: on the Making of Invisible People |
70 New York University Law Review 965 (October, 1995) |
In his recent book, Latinos, Earl Shorris poignantly describes Bienvenida Petion, a Jewish Latino immigrant, who clings to her language and culture as if they were life itself. When Bienvenida dies, it is not of illness, but of English. Bienvenida dies of English when she is confined to a nursing home where no one speaks Spanish, an environment... |
1995 |
| Liav Orgad |
Love and War: Family Migration in Time of National Emergency |
23 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 85 (Fall, 2008) |
Is there a constitutional right to family-sponsored immigration? What does love have to do with it? Is family immigration about rights of citizens or interests of aliens? Can the nation invoke the war justification for regulating family immigration by excluding enemy aliens en masse? Can the nation stigmatize alien family members as a potential... |
2008 |
| Asees Bhasin |
LOVE IN THE TIME OF ICE: HOW PARENTS WITHOUT PAPERS ARE STRIPPED OF THE RIGHT TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN IN A SAFE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT |
36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 875 (Spring, 2022) |
This Article analyzes narratives around immigrant reproduction and traces the construction of immigrants as bad and unfit parents. It seeks to connect these perceptions, which are driven by nativist and racist beliefs, to the formulation of laws and policies that are designed to unleash violence and fear on undocumented people and their families.... |
2022 |
| Lindsey Rubin |
Love's Refugees: the Effects of Stringent Danish Immigration Policies on Danes and Their Non-danish Spouses |
20 Connecticut Journal of International Law 319 (Summer, 2005) |
Denmark may long have been perceived as the small, friendly country which gave the world Lego, Hans Christian Andersen and the beauty of Copenhagen . [b]ut Denmark no longer has a reputation as an open, cosy [sic] society where policemen stop the traffic to allow ducks to cross the road. At age eighteen Christina Reves could vote, die for her... |
2005 |
| Jennifer M. Chacón |
Loving Across Borders: Immigration Law and the Limits of Loving |
2007 Wisconsin Law Review 345 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 345 II. Immigration Restrictions and Antimiscegenation Laws. 348 A. Admission Policy and the Social Construction of Race. 350 B. Nationality Laws and the Policing of the Color Line. 356 III. Where Loving Never Tread: How the Law Still Regulates Intimacy. 358 A. Immigration, Nationality, and the Family. 359 B. Immigration and... |
2007 |
| Eric J. Miller |
LOVING REPARATIONS |
94 University of Colorado Law Review 395 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 395 I. Brief History of the Massacre. 398 II. Loving Blackness Through Reparations. 404 III. More than Economic Reparations. 407 IV. Group and Community Eligiblity. 411 Conclusion: What Does Solidarity Look Like?. 412 |
2023 |
| Dolores S. Atencio |
LUMINARIAS: AN EMPIRICAL PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST GENERATION OF LATINA LAWYERS 1880-1980 |
39 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 1 (2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Prologue. 3 Introduction. 9 I. The Luminarias Study. 13 A. Methodology. 13 B. Who is Latina? The Complex Nature of Self-Identification Inside and Outside the Latino Community. 16 C. Ethical Considerations in Categorizing Luminarias as Latinas. 22 1. Rosalind Goodrich Bates, LL.B 1926 Southwestern Law-Los Angeles, Admitted... |
2023 |
| Emlyn Medalla |
MADE FOR EXPORT: HOW U.S. AND PHILIPPINE POLICIES COMMODIFY AND TRAFFICK FILIPINO NURSES |
26 CUNY Law Review 139 (Winter, 2023) |
I. Introduction. 140 A. Author's Note on Language. 141 II. How U.S. Intervention Fabricated a System of Nurse Mass Migration. 142 A. Cheap Skilled Nurses for the Global Market: A Product of Modern Colonization. 142 B. The Philippines' Labor Export Economy: A Product of Continued Subjugation. 144 i) The Philippines' Flag Independence. 144 ii)... |
2023 |
| Kunal M. Parker |
Making Blacks Foreigners: the Legal Construction of Former Slaves in Post-revolutionary Massachusetts |
2001 Utah Law Review 75 (2001) |
How might one conceive of African-American history as U.S. immigration history, and with what implications for our understanding of immigration itself? The historiography of U.S. immigration has been heavily invested in producing an idea of immigrants as individuals who move from there to here, with both there and here taken to be actually... |
2001 |
| Mark Noferi |
Making Civil Immigration Detention "Civil," and Examining the Emerging U.s. Civil Detention Paradigm |
27 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 533 (Winter, 2014) |
In 2009, the Obama Administration began to reform its sprawling immigration detention system by asking the question, How do we make civil detention civil? Five years later, after opening an explicitly-named civil detention center in Texas to public criticism from both sides, the Administration's efforts have stalled. But its reforms, even if... |
2014 |
| Hiroshi Motomura |
MAKING IMMIGRATION LAW |
134 Harvard Law Review 2794 (June, 2021) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 2795 I. Looking Outward. 2797 A. Foreign Affairs. 2798 B. The Parole Power. 2799 C. The Suspension Power. 2800 D. International Immigration Power. 2802 II. Looking Inward. 2804 A. Beyond Conventional Wisdom. 2805 B. Discretion, Delegation, and the Shadow System. 2808 C. Familiar Answers, New Questions. 2810 III.... |
2021 |
| Naseam Jabberi |
MAKING MARYLAND A SANCTUARY STATE - THE BATTLE OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT MARYLAND |
51 University of Baltimore Law Forum 124 (Spring, 2021) |
In recent years, issues of immigration have become a main topic of discussion throughout the United States. With President Trump basing a major campaign point on an idea of mass deportation, the concept of immigration enforcement became a front and center issue for many individuals. In one of the President's campaign announcements, he made it clear... |
2021 |
| Denise Gilman |
MAKING PROTECTION UNEXCEPTIONAL: A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE U.S. ASYLUM SYSTEM |
55 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2023) |
The United States treats asylum as exceptional, meaning that asylum is presumptively unavailable and is offered only in rare cases. This exceptionality conceit, combined with an exclusionary apparatus, creates a problematic cycle. The claims of asylum seekers arriving as part of wide-scale refugee flows are discounted, and restrictive policies are... |
2023 |
| Rachel Insalaco |
MAKING THE EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SHIFTING IMMIGRATION POLICIES ON PROFESSIONAL ATHLETICS IN THE UNITED STATES |
28 Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal 93 (2021) |
The beginning of professional sports in the United States can be traced back to 1871 with the establishment of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NA), the country's first professional sports league. The years following the NA's establishment saw the emergence of competing professional baseball leagues to capitalize on the... |
2021 |
| Sarah Paoletti |
Making Visible the Invisible: Strategies for Responding to Globalization's Impact on Immigrant Workers in the United States |
13 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 105 (Winter, 2006) |
This article explores the impact of globalization on immigrant workers in the United States. Although Congress created programs to provide vocational training services and cash allowances to workers who qualified by virtue of having lost their jobs as a result of the adverse impacts of trade, these programs have done little to assist many of the... |
2006 |
| J.S. Nelson |
Management Culture and Surveillance |
43 Seattle University Law Review 631 (Winter, 2020) |
As the modern workplace increasingly adopts technology, that technology is being used to surveil workers in ways that can be highly invasive. Ostensibly, management uses surveillance to assess workers' productivity, but it uses the same systems to, for example, map their interpersonal relationships, study their conversations, collect data on their... |
2020 |
| Neha Jain |
MANUFACTURING STATELESSNESS |
116 American Journal of International Law 237 (April, 2022) |
Having recently emerged from its unenviable status as the runt of international law, the phenomenon of statelessness nonetheless eludes traditional international legal instruments. Confronted with questions of nationality that typically fall within the domain of sovereignty, international and regional human rights bodies struggle to rein in the... |
2022 |
| Simi N. A. Junior |
Many Strands: Immigration Reform and the Effect of Mexican Migration on African American Unemployment |
10 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 487 (2009) |
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain . . . . Our fate is to become one, and yet many--This is not prophecy, but description. The events of that day were unforgettable. A grainy videotape showed a black man being viciously beaten by four white police officers. What appeared to be an act of racial savagery was... |
2009 |
| Megan Doherty Bea , Emily S. Taylor Poppe |
MARGINALIZED LEGAL CATEGORIES: SOCIAL INEQUALITY, FAMILY STRUCTURE, AND THE LAWS OF INTESTACY |
55 Law and Society Review 252 (June, 2021) |
Social classifications are increasingly interrelated, far-reaching, and consequential for socioeconomic outcomes. We use the concept of marginalized legal categories to describe how the law disadvantages individuals or groups by transforming inherently ordered social classifications into consequential legal categories, employing intestacy laws as... |
2021 |
| Gregory Brazeal |
MARKETS AS LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS |
91 University of Cincinnati Law Review 595 (2023) |
C1-2Contents I. Introduction. 595 II. Government Versus the Market in the Reagan Era. 601 A. The Evidence. 602 1. The Tea Party--and Richard Posner. 602 2. From Laissez Faire to Free Enterprise. 606 3. Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the Freedom School. 609 4. Contemporary Testimony. 614 5. Thomas Piketty versus Mehrsa Baradaran. 621 B. A... |
2023 |
| Anna Carron |
Marriage-based Immigration for Same-sex Couples after Doma: Lingering Problems of Proof and Prejudice |
109 Northwestern University Law Review 1021 (Summer 2015) |
Introduction. 1022 I. Background: Marriage in the Immigration Context. 1025 A. Immigration Law Restrictions and Preferential Treatment for Spouses of U.S. Citizens. 1026 B. Only Valid and Bona Fide Marriages Count for Immigration Purposes. 1027 C. Procedures for Obtaining a Spousal Visa. 1030 D. Discretion and Deference in the Immigration... |
2015 |
| Ellen D. Katz |
MARY LOU GRAVES, NOLEN BREEDLOVE, AND THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT |
20 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 59 (Winter, 2022) |
This close examination of two cases is part of a larger ongoing project to provide a distinct account of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1921, the Alabama Supreme Court held the Nineteenth Amendment required that any poll tax be imposed equally on men and women. Sixteen years later, the Supreme Court disagreed. Juxtaposing these two cases, and telling... |
2022 |
| Sara Zampierin |
MASS E-CARCERATION: ELECTRONIC MONITORING AS A BAIL CONDITION |
2023 Utah Law Review 589 (2023) |
Over the past decade, the immigration and criminal legal systems have increasingly relied on electronic monitoring as a bail condition; hundreds of thousands of people live under this monitoring on any given day. Decisionmakers purport to impose these conditions to release more individuals from detention and to maintain control over individuals... |
2023 |
| Jamillah Bowman Williams |
MAXIMIZING #METOO: INTERSECTIONALITY & THE MOVEMENT |
62 Boston College Law Review 1797 (June, 2021) |
Introduction. 1798 I. The Law Continues to Fail Women of Color Thirty Years After Kimberlé Crenshaw's Intersectionality Insights. 1809 A. Intersectionality Theory. 1811 B. Federal Protection Disproportionately Excludes Women of Color. 1814 C. Mandatory Arbitration Silences Women of Color. 1818 D. Women of Color Are Marginalized Due to False... |
2021 |
| Mimi E. Tsankov , Christina J. Martin |
Measured Enforcement: a Policy Shift in the Ice 287(g) Program |
31 University of La Verne Law Review 403 (May, 2010) |
On any given Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, representatives of the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc. (hereinafter Esperanza) convene inmates at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail (MCJ) to participate in a legal rights presentation. This presentation guides foreign-born males at MCJ... |
2010 |
| Kevin Lam |
Mediating Domestic Violence Disputes in Chinese Immigrant Families in the U.s.: the Case for Court-appointed Mediation Programs |
17 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 989 (Spring 2016) |
Chinese immigrants, particularly those that lack legal status, have historically mistrusted the U.S. legal system. Not only are they wary of the adversarial nature of court proceedings, but also language and cultural barriers frequently prevent them from gaining meaningful access to relief. As a result, issues that arise from within the Chinese... |
2016 |
| Linda S. Bosniak |
Membership, Equality, and the Difference Thatalienage Makes |
69 New York University Law Review 1047 (December 1, 1994) |
Rising American concern over a perceived immigration crisis makes it a virtual certainty that courts will once again grapple with questions concerning the meaning and significance of alienage as a legal status category. Proposition 187, California's recently approved anti-immigration ballot initiative, may represent the most dramatic legislative... |
1994 |
| Claudia Fendian |
MENTAL HEALTHCARE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND FIRST-GENERATION FAMILIES: ERASING THE STIGMA AND CREATING SOLUTIONS |
24 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 1 (2021) |
In the U.S., one in four people suffer from some sort of mental illness. Additionally, in the U.S., one in four people are immigrants or first-generation Americans. Tens of millions of people in the U.S. are in need of mental healthcare resources, and many of them are immigrants or first-generation individuals. With immigrants facing their own set... |
2021 |
| Leticia M. Saucedo |
Mexicans, Immigrants, Cultural Narratives, and National Origin |
44 Arizona State Law Journal 305 (Spring 2012) |
This article explores U.S. cultural narratives about Mexicans and immigrants and their ultimate effect on the evolution of national origin jurisprudence in workplace anti-discrimination law. Several scholars have argued that national-origin jurisprudence fails to account for the racialized history of Mexicans in this country and have called for a... |
2012 |
| Eduardo Grajales Gonzalez, Kelsey Quigley, Nicole Castillo, Eduardo Grajales Gonzalez, Sheila Barradas, Edgar Jaramillo, Mariana Garcia, Mariana Rivera, Alison Silva, Eduardo Gonzalez, Kalani Hawks Villafranca, Paula Amato Ruffo, Leonel Perez Nieto, Eduar |
MEXICO |
57 The Year in Review (ABA) 69 (2023) |
This article surveys significant legal developments in Mexico in 2022. In 2022, the Mexican Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of three high-profile energy, criminal detention, and immigration policies. The decisions in these cases substantively alter Mexico's legal system, economically and politically impacting the country's public... |
2023 |
| Conor McDonough |
Mezei's Day in Court: Debtors' Prisons, Substance Abuse, and the Permissiveness of Civil Detention in American Immigration Law |
114 Northwestern University Law Review 1631 (2020) |
Abstract--American immigration law mandates the civil detention of certain classes of migrants while their legal cases proceed through the courts. Due to the peculiar nature of immigration law, many migrants find themselves detained for years on end without receiving the level of due process that normally attends imprisonment. This Note draws on... |
2020 |
| Elvia R. Arriola , Virginia M. Raymond |
Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-profit Detention Centers |
15 Santa Clara Journal of International Law L. 1 (February 1, 2017) |
It gives me much pleasure to participate in this hunger strike. I cannot bear this punishment any more. I am dying of desperation, of this injustice, of this cruelty. We are immigrants, not criminals. To treat us like this--they must have no heart, they are of iron--as if we are not human. They treat us like dogs. Maribel, in the T. Don Hutto... |
2017 |
| Leti Volpp |
Migrating Identities: on Labor, Culture, and Law |
27 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 507 (Spring 2002) |
If Asians would just stop abusing their own, we'd be rid of sweatshops. When is the language of culture used to explain the exploitation of immigrant workers? Cultural pathology arguments are made by those seeking to defend corporate practices and in turn, are invoked by advocates defending the rights of immigrant workers. This essay examines the... |
2002 |