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Immigration And Blackness, Karla Mckanders
Immigration And Blackness, Karla Mckanders
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws throughout America’s history have traditionally utilized fear and exclusion to define what America should look like and have privileged some immigrant’s over others.
The Unspoken Voices Of Indigenous Women In Immigration Raids, Karla M. Mckanders
The Unspoken Voices Of Indigenous Women In Immigration Raids, Karla M. Mckanders
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The voices of the most vulnerable populations often point towards social constructs in dire need of systemic change. The treatment of immigrant women in workplace raids exemplifies this concept. Over the last couple of years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has executed several workplace raids to deport undocumented immigrants who are unauthorized to work in this country. When discussing workplace raids, most news articles focus on the mass deportation of men, this paper will take a different perspective, and examine indigenous immigrant Guatemalan women’s stories in migrating to the United States, seeking employment …