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Full-Text Articles in Immigration Law
Immigration And Naturalization Law, Johanna K.P. Dennis, Et Al.
Immigration And Naturalization Law, Johanna K.P. Dennis, Et Al.
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This article summarizes developments in immigration and naturalization law during 2011.
"Mommy, Where Is Home?": Imputing Parental Immigration Status And Residency For Undocumented Immigrant Children, Johanna K.P. Dennis
"Mommy, Where Is Home?": Imputing Parental Immigration Status And Residency For Undocumented Immigrant Children, Johanna K.P. Dennis
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This Article discusses whether the parent's time in residence and date of admission (immigration status) should be imputed to an unemancipated minor; the two recently decided U.S. Supreme Court cases addressing this issue; the policy implications and impact of an imputation rule on undocumented children; and the impetus and potential vehicles for changing the status quo.
Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit: Bureaucratic Politics In Federal Workplace Agencies Serving Undocumented Workers, Ming H. Chen
Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit: Bureaucratic Politics In Federal Workplace Agencies Serving Undocumented Workers, Ming H. Chen
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This Article integrates social science theory about immigrant incorporation and administrative agencies with empirical data about immigrant-serving federal workplace agencies to illuminate the role of bureaucracies in the construction of rights. More specifically, it contends that immigrants' rights can be protected when workplace agencies incorporate immigrants into labor law enforcement in accordance with the agencies' professional ethos and organizational mandates. Building on Miles' Law that "where you stand depends on where you sit," this Article argues that agencies exercise discretion in the face of contested law and in contravention to a political climate hostile to undocumented immigrants for the purpose …