Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’

Women and children first?

By Grace Chang, Recently in U.S. media and public policy discourses alike, the term “human trafficking” has become synonymous with “trafficking into sex work,” and this in turn has been equated with “sexual slavery” and “prostitution.” Human trafficking, while primarily an issue of...

January 12th, 2011 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

Close to home: Complications in the domestic anti-trafficking discourse

By Sienna Baskin, The U.S. anti-trafficking law was signed by President Clinton in October, 2000, ushering us into an era where this issue has become a hot topic around the world. After 10 years of lawmaking and public debate around the problem of human trafficking, the central conversations on the Hill...

January 11th, 2011 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

From Somalia to Denver, the long way

Inside a classroom at the Emily Griffith school in downtown Denver, Twenty-Seven year old Daoud Ali Muhammad is trying to improve his English. The class gives Daoud a chance to talk about the challenges he is facing in the US: “Daoud Is your apartment hot or cold?” asks the ESL instructor. ...

January 6th, 2011 | African, Featured, Immigration, Racial Equity | Read More

The summer of ‘10: Federal power, local autonomy, and the struggle over immigration policy

By Michael J. Wishnie, “The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of this act are intended to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence...

November 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Race, nativism, and anti-trafficking efforts: A dangerous and divisive game

Race has always played a role in labeling some people as worthy and others as undeserving of legal protections and access to justice. This has been the case whether the person in question is an alleged perpetrator of harm or an alleged victim. Collective thinking of this kind ultimately confers or takes...

October 6th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

One for the DREAMers

WE RETURN with a call for action! The DREAM Act is up for a vote. Despite the fact that as usual, politicians play cynical games of expediency with people’s lives, there is cause for enthusiasm and happiness. So get on that phone! Also featuring the vaunted political Beer Test. News With Nezua...

September 22nd, 2010 | Education, Featured, Immigration, Latinos | Read More

Red, Brown, and Blue: How our definition of whiteness has changed with each new wave of immigration

Destination Casa Blanca’s host Ray Suarez takes a look at a new history of immigration, and the opposition, in America…. One St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, back when I was working as a television reporter there in the 1980s, I wandered up and down the famous parade route on Dearborn...

September 20th, 2010 | Featured, Latinos | Read More

Anti-anti immigration: Principles to make migration work

By Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco, Originally posted on Huffington Post The most comprehensive overview of illegal immigration in the United States since the economic crisis began its downward spiral concludes that the flow of unauthorized immigrants into the country has significantly...

September 8th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Latinos | Read More