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Full-Text Articles in Immigration Law
Outsiders Looking In: Advancing The Immigrant Worker Movement Through Strategic Mainstreaming, Jennifer J. Lee
Outsiders Looking In: Advancing The Immigrant Worker Movement Through Strategic Mainstreaming, Jennifer J. Lee
Utah Law Review
The immigrant worker movement faces the age-old problem of social movements: whether change should be pursued from the inside or outside. Shaped by dominant cultural norms, the current legal framework generally disadvantages immigrant workers. They suffer from workplace exploitation, anti-immigrant hostility, and exclusion. By examining the interplay between law and culture, this Article offers a unique perspective on how immigrant workers have the power to change law through cultural narratives.
Change pursued from the inside by immigrant workers, community advocates, and public interest attorneys has more immediately provided positive results for immigrant workers. They have done so by mainstreaming immigrant …
Bridging The Title Vii Gap: Protecting All Workers From “Work Authorization” Discrimination, Rachel K. Alexander
Bridging The Title Vii Gap: Protecting All Workers From “Work Authorization” Discrimination, Rachel K. Alexander
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo
A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo
University of Richmond Law Review
This article explores the viability and potential effectiveness of immigration law's U visa to contribute to the protection of groups of workers in substandard and dangerous workplaces. Immigration law has increasingly become an obstacle to the enforcement of employment and labor law to protect immigrant workers.Moreover, employment and labor law, with their individual rights frameworks, have proven blunt instruments in eradicating the type of subordinating, sometimes slave-like conditions of immi-grant workers, especially those in low-wage industries. The federal government recently issued long-awaited regulations govern-ing U nonimmigrant visas for certain crime victims. Several of the enumerated eligible crimes in the U …
The National Employment Law Project, Joshua N. Leonardi
The National Employment Law Project, Joshua N. Leonardi
NYLS Law Review
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Worker Centers: Organizing Communities At The Edge Of The Dream, Janice Fine
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities At The Edge Of The Dream, Janice Fine
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Impacting Next Wave Organizing: Creative Campaign Strategies Of Los Angeles Worker Centers, Victor Narro
Impacting Next Wave Organizing: Creative Campaign Strategies Of Los Angeles Worker Centers, Victor Narro
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Workplace Project, Emily Stein