Journal of Gender, Race and Justice articles from September 2006

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice archives from September 2006

Immigration, race, and economic globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border: tangled histories and contemporary realities.
September 22, 2006... In a congressional hearing, a U.S. representative from Colorado explained the continuing need for labor from Mexico: "The American working people will not get down on their hands and knees in the dirt and pull weeds and thin these beets and...

Labor as property: guestworkers, international trade, and the democracy deficit.
September 22, 2006... I. INTRODUCTION "The labor of a human being is not a commodity or an article of commerce." (1) "The comparative advantage of workers in poor countries is cheap labor." (2) The current proposals over immigration reform,...

Keeping it real: developing a culturally and personally relevant legal writing curriculum.
September 22, 2006... As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me--although you're older-- and white--and somewhat more free. (1) A commitment to student-body diversity is a requirement for meeting the accreditation standards of the American Bar...

Opportunistic hate crimes targeting symbolic property: when free speech is not free.
September 22, 2006... I. INTRODUCTION Imagine a situation in which a burglar enters a home and robs it for the purpose of obtaining material possessions. He or she has selected the home simply because it was an easy target; he or she knows nothing about the...

Out of the frying pan and into the quarantine: why 8 U.S.C. (section) 1182's HIV/AIDS exclusion should not apply to refugees seeking entry into the United States.
September 22, 2006... "Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national...

Of policies, procedures, and packing sheds: agricultural incidents of employer abuse of the H-2B nonagricultural guestworker visa.
September 22, 2006... I. INTRODUCTION "The term 'guestworker' is misleading: 'Welcome to my house, now do the dishes.'" (1) The H-2 visa is the current temporary guestworker program for low-skilled laborers in the United States. The H-2A visa covers...