Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy articles from January 1 2007

Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy archives from January 1 2007

Editor's remarks.
January 1, 2007... On the eve of administrative change in the White House, American citizens--and people all over the world affected by U.S. policy--anticipate the critical decisions that await the nation's future leader. During the presidential candidate...

Challenges and opportunities for immigration policy reform.(Interview)
January 1, 2007... Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D., serves as director of United States citizenship and immigration services (USCIS), an undersecretary position within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the...

Justice for all: protecting marginalized communities in Southwest Texas.(Interview)
January 1, 2007... David G. Hall is currently the executive director of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA), a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services to the poor in a sixty-eight-county service area in Texas. He has served in this position...

Collective prosperity: the power of a multiethnic agenda, a New York model.
January 1, 2007... Introduction Black members of the Minutemen, a militia born from White supremacy, appear as the face of mass media's coverage of anti-immigrant protest. Lou Dobbs, the corporate-turned-populist commentator, champions the cause of African...

Local immigration regulation: a problematic trend in public policy.
January 1, 2007... Introduction A looming issue for Latinos across the country is the proliferation of new local ordinances targeting undocumented immigrants. Such ordinances usually seek to impose harsh sanctions on landlords who rent to undocumented...

The DREAM Act, deferred.
January 1, 2007... Children born abroad but brought to the United States illegally live in a world of fading hope. Mostly Hispanic, they are allowed to attend school through the secondary level, but once they reach the age of eighteen our system tells them to...

The Tijuana Two-Step: the border patrol's teargassing of colonia libertad and extraterritorial criminalization of Mexican citizens.
January 1, 2007... A new trend is rapidly spreading throughout the impoverished neighborhoods of Tijuana, Mexico: the "Tijuana Two-Step." Unexpectedly, people drop whatever they are doing and run out of their homes. Yet they usually don't get more than two steps...

Featured artwork.(Special Content)
January 1, 2007... The Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy is proud to continue featuring work by Latino artists. This effort began in volume 19 as a way to visually represent the heterogeneity of Hispanic culture and to offer insight into the complex history and...

Gregory Rodriguez Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (Pantheon Books, 2007).
January 1, 2007... Gregory Rodriguez's Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds traces the history of immigration and "race" relations in Mexico and the United States from 1519 to the present in 260 pages comprising nine chapters. This book is important,...

Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, Francisca E. Godinez, and Sofia Villenas: Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology (SUNY Press, 2006).
January 1, 2007... Cultural knowledge can and should inform educational achievement, policy formulation, and policy analysis. That is the message at the heart of this important book edited by Bernal, Elenes, Godinez, and Villenas, titled Chicana/Latina Education...