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Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law
Why Structural Racism Persists
Inbunden, 2020
751 kr
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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineHow taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously can help dismantle the structural racism encountered by other people of color in the United States Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection …
Marginal Workers
How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection
Inbunden, 2012
789 kr
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Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as …
Strange Neighbors
The Role of States in Immigration Policy
Av Carissa Byrne Hessick, Gabriel J. Chin
Inbunden, 2014
630 kr
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Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled withissues of federalism and states' rights. In almost every area of law, fromabortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federalgovernment over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws. In thelast decade, immigration has …
Revoking Citizenship
Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Inbunden, 2015
1043 kr
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Reveals America's long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship and all the rights that come with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes. The …
No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler V. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
Inbunden, 2012
515 kr
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The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented children …
Those Damned Immigrants
America's Hysteria Over Undocumented Immigration
Av Ediberto Román, Michael A. Olivas
Inbunden, 2013
560 kr
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Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama's election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old …
At Home in Two Countries
The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
Inbunden, 2016
476 kr
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Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the …
Run for the Border
Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings
Inbunden, 2012
560 kr
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Mexico andthe United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently providesthe United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders,a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the Americandream: the possibility of a better livelihood through …
Tierra Y Libertad
Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country's …
Marginal Workers
How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection
Häftad, 2013
329 kr
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Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as …
Beyond Deportation
The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases
Inbunden, 2015
1127 kr
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The first book to comprehensivelydescribe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion inimmigration law When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted …
Perchance to DREAM
A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA
Häftad, 2024
227 kr
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The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children had the right to attend public schools without charge or impediment, regardless of their immigration …
New Deportations Delirium
Interdisciplinary Responses
Av Daniel Kanstroom, M. Brinton Lykes
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with "green cards," have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a …
Beyond Deportation
The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases
Häftad, 2017
329 kr
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The first book to comprehensivelydescribe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion inimmigration law When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted …
Revoking Citizenship
Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Häftad, 2017
368 kr
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Reveals America's long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship and all the rights that come with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes. The …
Perchance to DREAM
A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA
Inbunden, 2020
520 kr
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The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children had the right to attend public schools without charge or impediment, regardless of their immigration …
