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Immigrant Workforce
202 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
Let’s Celebrate Immigrant Workers on Labor Day!
Michele Waslin on Immigration Impact reminds us why we should recognize and celebrate the contributions of immigrant workers to the American economy on Labor Day.KL
ImmigrationProf Blog
Pass the POWER Act for Immigrant Workers’ Rights
From the National Immigration Law Center:Strike at Hershey’s Underscores Need for Passage of the POWER ActThe historic strike at Hershey’s last week shed light on abuses faced by J-1 guest…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: “Building a Movement with Immigrant Workers: The 1972-74 Strike and Boycott at Farah Manufacturing” by MARIA LINDA ONTIVEROS
"Building a Movement with Immigrant Workers: The 1972-74 Strike and Boycott at Farah Manufacturing" Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Forthcoming MARIA LINDA ONTIVEROS, University of San Francisco - School…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Proposed Texas law to immigrants: Keep out … or clean my house by Ruben Navarrette Jr.,
Read Ruben Navarette Jr.'s entertaining commentary on a proposal in the Texas legislature that would bar the employment of undocumented immigrants with an exemption for domestic service workers in single family…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Workers Are More Evenly Dispersed Across the Skills Spectrum than Widely Recognized, New MPI Analysis Finds
"It has been conventional wisdom that the immigrant workforce is shaped like an hourglass — wide at the top and the bottom but narrow in the middle. In reality, immigrants…
ImmigrationProf Blog
To Immigrants on Labor Day: Thank You
Posted by Mark Engler on Alternet.orgUndocumented immigrants streaming into this country from south of the border drive down wages and steal jobs that could otherwise go to out-of-work Americans. Right?Wrong.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Refugees find the American dream down on the farm
In the last few years, a growing – indeed, unprecedented -- number of state and local governments, frustrated with the failure of Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform, and increasingly…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
People born in other countries are a growing presence in the U.S. labor force. In 1994, 1 in 10 people in the U.S. labor force was born elsewhere, but in…
Best Practices Construction Law
Muchos Problemas: Music City Center Highlights TN’s “Immigrant Labor” Construction Laws
Last night, the evening news reported that Tennessee House Democrat Leader Mike Turner planned to file a complaint with the Department of Labor, alleging that "one of the contractors working…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Not In Competition: Data Underscores Differences Between Immigrant and Native-Born Workers
High levels of unemployment have led some to propagate the myth that every immigrant added to the U.S. labor force amounts to a job lost by a native-born worker, or…