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Immigrant Workforce
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Free Trade, Immigrant Workers, and Employment Discrimination by Angela D. Morrison
Free Trade, Immigrant Workers, and Employment Discrimination by Angela D. Morrison, Kansas Law ReviewAbstract This article reframes the outward-looking perspective on workers’ rights provisions in free trade agreements. It argues…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Urban Institute: Immigrants make up 17 percent of the US workforce, and they merit investment
This Urban Institute paper (Hamutal Bernstein & Carolyn Vilter) looks at immigrant workers and the need to invest in them (and their success). Here is part of the intro:"Immigrants are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
At the Movies: The Long Ride, A Documentary
The Long Ride introduction (2:36) from Valerie Lapin Ganley on Vimeo.The Long Ride, a documentary film about the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride which sparked a new Civil Rights Movement…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Happy Labor Day! And don’t forget immigrant workers
To many Americans, Labor Day is a day to relax and mark the end of the summer. Do not forget that immigrant workers were central to the creation of Labor…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Wyoming’s Unusual Workers’ Compensation Undocumented Worker Rule
Back in May of 2012, the Federal District Court of Wyoming entered a $900,000 tort judgment against an employer, Reiman Corp., for an injury arising out of and in the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: The Precarity of Temporality: How Law Inhibits Immigrant Worker Claims by Kati L. Griffith and Shannon Gleeson
The Precarity of Temporality: How Law Inhibits Immigrant Worker Claims by Kati L. Griffith and Shannon Gleeson, Comparative Labor Law &Policy Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2017 AbstractEmployee claims against employers,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants Fuel Job Gains, Not Losses in the United States
President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions often claim that immigrants take jobs from true "Americans." A new study undermines that claim.Immigrants are often used as convenient scapegoats for those…
ImmigrationProf Blog
150 Undocumented Youth and Immigrant Workers From Across the Country Come Together For National Convening
150 Undocumented Youth and Immigrant Workers From Across the Country Come Together For National Convening New York, NY - On Friday, October 6 over 150 undocumented youth from across the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day 2017! While celebrate the contributions of workers, don't forget the contributions of immigrant workers. Immigrants have long been an integral part of the U.S. workforce. And while…
ImmigrationProf Blog
In California’s poultry plants, refugees are vital to the workforce
From the days of chronicled in Upton Sinclair's famous 1906 book The Jungle, immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, long have toiled in the meatpacking industry, Today, immigrants, from Nebraska to Arkansas…