Immigration Reform and Economic Justice
Center For Emerging Media : Economics
Nation writers Bob Moser and Roberto Lovato discuss how Democrats can best pursue economic reform and a better immigration policy.
2007
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Showdown at the DMV
The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.
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Israel Turns its Back on Sudanese Refugees
Abandoning Israel's longstanding commitment to those fleeing persecution, the Olmert government is deporting refugees back to Sudan, where they may face torture and death.
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A Migrant Summit
Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.
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Zyklon B on the US Border
Alexander Cockburn : Racism & Discrimination
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
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A New Green Card Deal
Mae M. Ngai : Racism & Discrimination
History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
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Exodus
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
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Raw Deal on Immigration
The Senate's "grand bargain" on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it's still not good enough.
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The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in history, and no one seems to be paying attention.
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Veiled Intolerance
Richard Wolin : Islam & Muslims
A batch of new books describe how European governments have dealt with Muslim immigrants and citizens since 9/11.
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Workers, Not Guests
David Bacon : Immigration to the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using immigration control measures to retaliate against undocumented workers who stand up for their rights.
2006
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White Heat
Bob Moser : Immigration to the US
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution. It's also the white-hot nexus of the new American nativism.
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What They're Marching For
Saurav Sarkar : Immigration to the US
With or without a comprehensive immigration bill, a working-class immigrant Latino movement is emerging--allied with progressive groups--that could reverse a tide of xenophobia and make significant gains.
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A Shared Vision
Salim Muwakkil : Immigration to the US
The vitality of the new Latino-led immigration movement could provide the spark to jolt the civil rights movement out of its complacency and create a shared notion of an imagined future.
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A Bronx Tale
Michelle García : Immigration to the US
Grassroots activists tap into the momentum of the immigrant rights movement to bring blacks and Latinos together on shared concerns.
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Voices of a New Movimiento
Roberto Lovato : Immigration to the US
As they push for immigrants rights legislation--and brace for the inevitable backlash--a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.
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Mexico's Exodus: Blip on the Radar?
Nicholas von Hoffman : Immigration to the US
Declining birthrates in Mexico give the lie to American fears of an influx of immigrants. As birthrates plummet around the world, America's real problem may be a shortage, not a surfeit, of guest workers.
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What Bush Got Right
Robert Scheer : Immigration to the US
Bush has taken a sensible stance on immigration, but his plummeting credibility will prevent people from embracing his proposals.
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Yumi, Yumi, Yumi
Why is it that We the People are so obsessed with whether singing our national anthem in Spanish is an affront to our union?
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May Day, May Day
Saurav Sarkar : Labor & Immigration
Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.
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My Mother, the Illegal Alien
Robert Scheer : Labor & Immigration
As the May Day protests, they evoked memories of an earlier generation of immigrants who lived with the fear of deportation.
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Immigrants and Us
Progressives should join forces with immigrant advocates to create a broad social movement placing the rights of immigrants at the heart of a struggle for economic justice.
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Hard Times in the Big Easy
The American economy cannot function without migrant labor. The paradox is the country's political culture cannot function without scapegoating immigrants.
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The Palestinian Patient
Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.
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Realistic Immigration
Hilda Solis : State of the Union
Grant legal status to hard-working, tax-paying immigrants; give up the illusion that law enforcement alone will solve immigration problems.
2005
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War of Words in France
As media attention focused on rampaging youths setting afire the poor suburbs of France, verbal conflagrations raged among politicians and elected officials on how to respond to the threat.
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Why Is France Burning?
Fires and rioting in France are the result of thirty years of government neglect and the failure of the French political classes to make any serious effort to integrate Muslim and black populations into the French economy and culture.
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Communities Without Borders
Guest worker programs are a threat to the communities Central American migrants forge as they sweep across the US. These programs undermine the economic rights of immigrants and natives alike.
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Living Like a Refugee
Not since the days of the Dust Bowl has America seen such a massive migration of refugees. Who becomes one of this tribe is a matter of race and class.
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A Crime to Dream
Edwidge Danticat : Feminism & Women
Women seeking refuge in the United States receive a cold welcome.
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