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Outsiders Looking In: Advancing The Immigrant Worker Movement Through Strategic Mainstreaming, Jennifer J. Lee Aug 2014

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 Jan 2010

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

No abstract provided.


A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo Mar 2008

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 Jan 2006

The National Employment Law Project, Joshua N. Leonardi

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Worker Centers: Organizing Communities At The Edge Of The Dream, Janice Fine Jan 2006

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 Jan 2006

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 Jan 2006

The Workplace Project, Emily Stein

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.