All posts tagged "Immigration"
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Andrea Plaid Joins 70K Others in Telling The New York Times to Drop The I-Word
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Woman's Work
Depending on the promise, girls pack differently. Girls from the north, known for their beautiful pale skin created out of long winters will pack their...
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Talking Vultures, Humans, and Warm Flesh with Charles Bowden
By Alice Driver Some people we know only through their words. And so it was with author Charles Bowden and his images of bloated bodies,...
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Simposio de la Feminización de las Migraciones y Derechos Humanos: Signing a Pact for the Future
Today is not only Valentine’s day or Día V, the day against violence against women, but it marks an interesting moment in Mexican national policy....
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E(race)sure, Queerness, and Civil Rights in the South: The Undocubus and the Legacy of Bayard Rustin
By Brittany D. Chávez As a queer woman of color artist-scholar-activist living in the U.S. South, I am deeply invested in historical legacies of queer...
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Illinois Establishes Scholarship for Undocumented Migrants
Applications for the new DREAM fund scholarship in Illinois will begin Thursday, November 1. The DREAM fund was created by state legislation and passed in...
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Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly
For the students enrolled in Latino/a Pop at UT Austin, Fall 2012. Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first...
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Violence on the Border
By Laura Ilardo They say that the US-Mexico border is a very dangerous place. Surrounded by cactus, scrub, and hundreds of miles of dry desert,...
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The Precarity of Latino/a Child-Citizen Subjects: From Dora the Explorer to Child Deportees
What is a child-citizen subject? Put simply, it encompasses children’s right to exist, grow, and live in a country while being seen as a secondary...
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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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New Program Allows Some Young Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Hundreds of thousands of people who entered the United States as children but without documentation can apply — beginning Wednesday — to remain in and...
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Defining Muslim Feminist Politics through Indigenous Solidarity Activism
By Shaista Patel For the last several years, I have identified myself as a Muslim feminist in my activist and grad school circle(s). However, as I...
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The Heart of SB 1070: Racial Profiling
By C. Alejandra Elenes On Monday, June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB 1070....
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Meteors
to sleep all day in loving arms or call my mother and hear her say Bushra? I was thinking of you right now to...
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New Study Shows Benefits of Bilingualism in Teens
A new study conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) found certain brain functions are enhanced in teens who are fluent in more than...
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Why I Got Straight Married: On Love, Heterosexism, and Fear in Post-9/11 America
By Aarati Kasturirangan Fear One week after 9/11, still reeling from the trauma of the attacks, I walked to my bus stop and glanced furtively...
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ICE Deportations Leave Thousands in U.S. Foster Care System
A new ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) report revealed that in the first six months of 2011, the agency deported a total of 46,686 immigrants...