Giants in the Land
Tags: IMMIGRANTS -- United States; EMIGRATION & immigration; ASIANS -- Migrations; LABOR
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- The Indispensable Advocate. Meyerson, Harold // American Prospect;Jul/Aug2003, Vol. 14 Issue 7, p32
Discusses the significance of unions for U.S. immigrants as of 2003. Unions successful at organizing in the private sector; Unions as vehicles through which immigrant communities are socialized into U.S. politics; Details of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides to be held in September 2003.
- The Case for Choosing More Skilled Immigrants. Borjas, George // American Enterprise;Dec2000, Vol. 11 Issue 8, p30
Discusses the consequences of choosing a particular type of immigrant on the United States (U.S.). Effects of choosing skilled immigrants on the government's finance and economy; Conflict between the type of immigrant preferred by the typical U.S. worker versus the typical U.S. business; How...
- COMING AND GOING. Glazer, Nathan // New Republic;11/17/97, Vol. 217 Issue 20, p13
Comments on the immigration policy in the U.S. as of November 1997. Concerns of wilderness enthusiasts and conservationists on the present immigration trends; Description of the state with the most immigrants; Impact of unskilled immigration on California.
- "Don't Let Them Make You Feel You Did a Crime": Immigrant Law, Labor Rights, and Farmworker Testimony. Shea, Anne // MELUS;Spring2003, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p123
Examines hegemonic narratives about migrant labor and considers the forms of cultural resistance produced by farm workers through testimony in the U.S. Aim of migrant workers in their deployment of various strategies of resistance; Core of migrant laborers' political battles; Effect of...
- College Educated Immigrants in the American Labor Force: A Study of Locational Behavior. Vasegh-Daneshvary, Nasser; Herzog Jr., Henry W.; Schlottmann, Alan M. // Southern Economic Journal;Jan86, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p818
The purpose of this paper is to provide such information by analyzing labor market and other determinants of the initial settlement pattern, as well as subsequent interstate remigration, of college educated immigrants. In addition, given that the remigration component of the study considers...
- Should They Stay? Fanning, Karen // Scholastic News -- Edition 4;5/8/2006, Vol. 68 Issue 24, p4
The article deals with issues concerning a proposed bill in the U.S. Congress that would crack down on people living in the country illegally. Many U.S. lawmakers say that illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. because they are a necessary part of the U.S. work force. Other...
- Undocumented Mexican Immigrants and the Earnings of Other Workers in the United States. Bean, Frank D.; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Taylor, Lowell J. // Demography;Feb1988, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p35
This article examines the effects of undocumented Mexican immigrants on the earnings of other workers in geographical labor markets in the Southwest. The number of undocumented Mexicans included in the 1980 census in southwestern SMSAs is estimated. We then estimate the parameters of three...
- Angel Island. Howe, Robert F. // Smithsonian;May2006, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p84
The article looks at the history of Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, California. The island has a strategic position near the mouth of the bay. Angel Island served as a military base from the Civil War to the cold war. It was a staging area for soldiers shipping out to, or returning from...
- Five stories. Ong, Han; Rachlin, Nahid; Cruz, Orlando; Nigam, Sanjay; Sillah, Memuna M. // Natural History;Mar98, Vol. 107 Issue 2, p50
Presents five stories of immigrants in the United States. Views of an immigrant from Manila, Philippines on America; Experiences of an Iranian student at Lindenwood College, in St. Charles Missouri; Experiences of an illegal immigrant from Ecuador in New York City; Differences in Western and...
