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Migrant Workers
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Ann Stewart on Gender Injustices in a Global Market
Ann Stewart (University of Warwick School of Law) has posted Who Do We Care About? Reflections on Gender Justice in a Global Market on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article argues that…
International Law Prof Blog
International Migrants Day
On December 4, 2000, the UN General Assembly declared December 18 to be International Migrants Day to draw attention to the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the large and increasing number…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship: Migrant Workers
Comparative Labor Law & Policy JournalVolume 31, Number 1, Fall 2009MIGRANT WORKERS: Special Collection by the International Studies Committee, National Academy of Arbitrators.ArticlesJudy Fudge & Fiona MacPhail, The Temporary Foreign…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NASA Astronaut: A Child of Migrant Workers
Marcia Dunn writes for the San Francisco Chronicle:He toiled in the farm fields of California's Central Valley alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn't learn English until he was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
David Bacon Exclusive Photographs
TAFT, CA - 12JUNE09 Taft was once a speculator's boomtown, surrounded by a forest of oil wells, hotbed the state's burgeoning petroleum industry. Today it is a divided community, home…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Trako on the Effects of Migrant Remittances
Iva Trako (2008 Masters U. San Andres Econ. Dep't) has just posted her article The Impact of Remittances on Incentives: The Case of Albania on SSRN. Her findings, if generalizable…
ImmigrationProf Blog
David Bacon: Mixtecs in Watsonville
David Bacon, author and photographer (and regular contributor to the ImmigrtaionProf blog, has supplied this new set of photos with his narrative:WATSONVILLE, CA Indigenous Mixtec migrants from San Martin Peras…
ImmigrationProf Blog
David Bacon: Good Friday in a Oaxacan Colonia in Caruthers, California (Near Fresno)
CARUTHERS, CA - 10APRIL09 - In a tiny colonia, or settlement, outside Caruthers, in the grape fields west of Fresno, California, indigenous Mixtec migrants from Oaxaca celebrate Good Friday.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New SSRN Immigration Articles
Here are some recent immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com): "Labor Union Coalition Challenges to Governmental Action: Defending the Civil Rights of Law-Wage Workers" MARIA LINDA ONTIVEROS,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
International Migrants Day 18 December
On 4 December 2000, the United Nations General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December International Migrants Day (resolution 55/93).…