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Bacon: Mississippi’s SB 2988
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
David Bacon
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On March 17 Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system called E-Verify.
Bacon: May Day: "We Are Workers, Not Criminals"
Znet Article, May, 02 2008
David Bacon
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In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a...
Parrish: No Borders Camp: For a World Without Borders
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Will Parrish
Parrish's ZSpace page
From November 5-11, roughly 500 people from throughout the United States and Mexico gathered at the Mexicali-Calexico border in the Sonoran Desert bioregion for a No Borders Camp, a temporary autonomous zone and direct action meant to challenge ne...
Bacon: In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the US. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't h...
O'Ceallaigh: Giving Form to a Stampede: The First Two Years of the New Students for a Democratic Society
Znet Article, April, 15 2008
Liam O'Ceallaigh
O'Ceallaigh's ZSpace page
Two core organizers of the new Students for a Democratic Society analyze the founding, current state, and future of the organization.
Hernández: Immigration Reform Now, Piece By Piece
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
César cuauhtémoc garcía Hernández
Hernández's ZSpace page
Congress’s stalemate on comprehensive reform is not an excuse for immigrants’ rights advocates to relax. On the contrary, the immigration law regime conflicts with established principles of constitutional law, basic fairness, and common sense so m...
Beltran: Community Resistance to Immigrant Scapegoating
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
A. Beltran
Beltran's ZSpace page
Prince William County, Virginia has become `ground zero' in the war against immigrants. Prince William has implemented a draconian policy targeting the immigrant community. Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, a community-based, all volunteer organization, ha...
Adams: Out of Sight Communities
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Margaret Adams
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ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: Maine hires migrant farm workers with H-2B visas in several areas of the state: in Cumberland County to pick strawberries, in the western Hills to pick apples, deep in northern Maine for the broccoli harvests, and in the d...
Christoff: France's Colonial History, Contemporary Conflicts
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Stefan Christoff
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PARIS--In the early evening outside of Belleville metro in Paris, a crowd gathers for a demonstration demanding citizenship for France's hundreds-of-thousands of non-status immigrants, locally known as sans papiers (literally "without papers").
Anderson: Turning survival into resistance:
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Bridget Anderson
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In preparation for this panel we were told that we must be focussed on questions of vision and strategy. It's made me realise how little chance we have to dream. Neo-liberal capitalism, the ineluctable logic of the market, it all seems so “obvio...
Hernández: Review: Deportation Nation
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
César cuauhtémoc garcía Hernández
Hernández's ZSpace page
Daniel Kanstroom’s Deportation Nation is an exhaustively detailed yet readable historical analysis of deportation law. Kanstroom, a law professor and immigration lawyer, explores the entire history of U.S. immigration law to find the threads that ...
Rodriguez: On Immigration-History is on Our Side II
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
or the immigrant rights movement, a well planned and effective political mobilization in 2008 is key, not only to assure immigration reform gets the nod in 2009, but also the type and quality of the legalization that finally emerges from a democra...
Palast: Space Invaders: Five Million Aliens for Hillary
Znet Article, January, 14 2008
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
How many? According to the Congressman's office, there are five million: Democrats, he says, who are not good Americans - they're Mexicans!
Bacon: The political economy of migration
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
David Bacon
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In December 2005, Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner convinced his Republican colleagues (and to their shame, 35 Democrats) to pass one of the most repressive immigration proposals of the last hundred years. His bill, HR 4437, would have ma...
Walia: "Second Komagatamaru"
Znet Article, December, 21 2007
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
Laibar Singh is a 48-year old paralyzed Dalit Punjabi refugee claimant who is facing deportation to India. He had taken sanctuary on July 7 in the Abbotsford Sahib Kalgidhar Darbar Gurudwara. While in sanctuary, Mr. Singh’s health deteriorated and...
Majavu: Xenophobia and Society
Commentary, December, 17 2007
Mandisi Majavu
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Various research studies conclude that South Africans, black and white, are xenophobic. In 1997, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) identified xenophobia "as a major source of concern to human rights and democracy in the country." T...
Rodriguez: Undocumented in America
Znet Article, December, 13 2007
Javier Rodriguez
Rodriguez's ZSpace page
I was born in 1944 in Torreón, Coahuila, but my family comes from the northern mountains of Durango. My father was a Communist and a trade union leader. When I was five we moved to Ciudad Juárez, on the border. In 1953 my father went to work in th...
Steinberg: The melting pot is NOT broken
Znet Article, October, 11 2007
Stephen Steinberg
Steinberg's ZSpace page
All through American history, one of the most common epithets hurled against immigrants is that they were "unassimilable" -- too clannish to become "true Americans." The irony, of course, is that this charge is leveled by people whose forebears we...
Eagleton: Rebuking obnoxious views is not just a personality kink
Znet Article, October, 11 2007
Terry Eagleton
Eagleton's ZSpace page
In an essay entitled The Age of Horrorism published in September 2006, the novelist Martin Amis advocated a deliberate programme of harassing the Muslim community in Britain. "The Muslim community," he wrote, "will have to suffer until it gets its...
