Recently added articles from Social Justice:
Overview: migrant labor and contested public space.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Editors WHEN THE ISSUE OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS ARISES IN THE UNITED States, THE Mexican border dominates public discussion due to media depictions and an intense anti-immigrant lobby. How immigration policy and the tenor of this polarizing issue will change under the Obama ...
Immigration on the public mind: immigration reform in the Obama administration.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE MERE MENTION OF THE WORD "IMMIGRATION" IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE OFTEN RESULTS in technical and moral arguments about the presence of Mexican immigrants in U.S. society. Although Mexicans are not the only ones immigrating to the United States, in public discourse immigration is regarded as a ...
The intersections of the economic and cultural in U.S. labor's pro-migrant politics.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF CAPITAL HAS BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY THE MOVEMENT of transnational labor of an unprecedented scale (Robinson, 2006). The worldwide labor migration has profoundly challenged the way policymakers, business representatives, and social activists think about the relationship ...
Strong-arming exploitable labor: the state and immigrant workers in the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... After Katrina hit, Armando Ojeda paid $1,200 to be smuggled across the desert border from Mexico, a walk that took several nights. Talk of $10 an hour--more in a day than he made each week at a computer factory back home--led him to pay another $1,200 to be crammed in a van with a dozen ...
Shared social space and strategies to find work: an exploratory study of Mexican day laborers in Freehold, N.J.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... DAY LABOR HAS BECOME A VISIBLE AND VITAL COMPONENT OF THE ECONOMY overall band a major element of nonstandard employment strategies for disenfranchised prospective workers. For migrant workers, particularly men, day labor serves as an important means to employment, offering them a chance ...