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Immigrant Workforce
202 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Worker Safety Net
The National Day Labored Organizing Network (NDLON) has launched the Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund and has distributed funds to 27 highly impacted groups in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Workers: Vital to the U.S. COVID-19 Response, Disproportionately Vulnerable
Six million immigrant workers are at the frontlines of keeping U.S. residents healthy, safe and fed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis of…
Immigration Lawyers Blog
Report: Pennsylvania’s Foreign-Born Rural and Urban Immigrant Workforce Continues to Climb
A recent study by Pennsylvania State University and the Center for Rural Pennsylvania found that between 2000 and 2016, the foreign-born immigrant workforce throughout Pennsylvania rose significantly and now makes…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
NYC Nail Salon Workers: Changes in an Abusive Industry
September 26, 2019 | Napoli Shkolnik News Earlier this month, the New York Nail Salon (NYC) Workers Association organized a speak-out protesting on-going abuses against salon workers in front of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Criminalizing Work and Non-Work: The Disciplining of Immigrant and African American Workers by Shirley Lung
Criminalizing Work and Non-Work: The Disciplining of Immigrant and African American Workers by Shirley Lung, 14 U. Mass. L. Rev. 290 (2019)AbstractThe realities of low-wage work in the United States…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Happy Labor Day and the Future of Oragnized Labor
Happy Labor Day! For many, it is a nice day off marking the unofficial end of summer.Labor Day was initiated to celebrate the contributions of labor. As we celebrate labor,…
Immigration Lawyers Blog
Immigrant Employees Sue Car Wash Employer Claiming Wage Discrimination
In the wake of the new minimum wage law passed earlier this month, eight immigrant workers have filed a lawsuit against Caribbean Car Wash Inc. in Elizabeth, New Jersey (CCW),…
Ackah Business Immigration Law
New IRCC Rule to Protect Abused Immigrants Effective Immediately
By Evelyn Ackah
Home Blog New IRCC Rule to Protect Abused Immigrants Effective Immediately 10 June 2019 IRCC announced two initiatives to protect vulnerable immigrants who are abused by their employer or victims…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Beyond the Dream and Promise Act: Why Democrats must turn the immigrant labor narrative upside down
The immigration debate in America has become divided between positions which highlight the threat of immigration to the economy and national security on one side and the other which emphasizes…
ImmigrationProf Blog
At the Movies: The Long Ride, a documentary
The Long Ride Trailer from Valerie Lapin Ganley on Vimeo.The Long Ride is a timely documentary film about the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride and the birth of the…