my teacher her name is patricia stuelke, she give us one lecture named Domestica is about immigrant domestic workers and the difficult way that latina immigrant find in this country, for example different woman talking about how their employers put the line between their food and their domestic workers or the employers don't respect the domestic workers's space and time, they think the domestic workers is 24 hours 7 days in the week and i asking to myself where is the rights's domestic workers that come to this country to find a AMERICAN DREAM... Read More
American RadioWorks documentary, Pueblo, USA explores the nation's largest wave of immigration happening right now. About 35 million of us were born in other countries. That's one in eight residents of the United States. Now immigrants come from all over the globe, but Latino immigration is remaking the country. And it's not just in big cities or in the Southwest.
Follow the link to download the radio program, listen online, or read the transcript. There is a Spanish language version of this site. Follow links to learn more about immigration in the United States.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a community-based organization that strives for equal worker rights. Their members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. Recent organizing victories have included a successful campaign to improve the wages and working conditions for McDonald's tomato farmworkers.
Tags: farmworkers, students
Topics: Business, Community Health, Economics, Immigration, Outreach, Public Health, Youth
Topics: Business, Community Health, Economics, Immigration, Outreach, Public Health, Youth
Immigrants who have higher education from outside the U.S. are often working well below their skill level, says a new report. Read More at the New America Media Web site
The Yakama Nation of Washington has approved a guest-worker program to keep track of non-citizens who work on the reservation.
Former council member Wendell Hannigan came up with the idea out of concern for crime and the large number of migrant workers on the reservation. Most come to work on orchards, farms and vineyards.
Read more at Indianz.com.
Tags: guest workers, Yakama Nation
Topics: Business, Immigrants, Policy, Receiving Communities, Work
Topics: Business, Immigrants, Policy, Receiving Communities, Work
Immigration has vanished from the presidential race, but its problems as evidenced by a raid to look for illegal janitors in Mesa, Ariz., recently are still with us. Read More at the New York Times Immigration and Refugees Web site
What happens to a story when the reporters move on? NAM's ongoing coverage of the aftermath of the immigration raids in Postville, Iowa in May allows some of the people swept up in the raids to continue telling their own stories. Read More at the New America Media Web site
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View a trailer from the movie San Papye (Undocumented). The producer, Hans Patrick Domercant writes that... Read More
Tags: green card, police, undocumented
Topics: Bill of Rights, Building Community, Business, Capacity Building, Citizenship, Cultural Competence, Economics, Education, Ethnic Media, Faith, Family, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Immigration, Mental health, Receiving Communities, Storytelling
Topics: Bill of Rights, Building Community, Business, Capacity Building, Citizenship, Cultural Competence, Economics, Education, Ethnic Media, Faith, Family, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Immigration, Mental health, Receiving Communities, Storytelling
In stark contrast to the current ICE policy producing numerous raids on food processing plants in small towns, John Biewen and Tennessee Watson of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University produced this portrait of a town in transition by talking with residents: Nuevo South.
Many longtime residents say they’re not especially troubled by the fact that many Latino workers are undocumented. What does make some uneasy is the way this new population is transforming the racial and cultural flavor of their town.
Listen to a 14-minute segment that aired on NPR and then add your comments to the growing discussion.
Or listen to the entire 30 minute documentary, Nuevo South, at the Center for Documentary Studies website.
Tags: Center for Documentary Studies, John Biewen, NPR
Topics: Building Community, Business, Civic Life, Immigrants, Receiving Communities, Work
Topics: Building Community, Business, Civic Life, Immigrants, Receiving Communities, Work
It was the largest immigration raid ever conducted in the Carolinas. It came after authorities determined that 777 of 825 workers at the plant had apparently submitted false documents to get their jobs.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they'll continue their long-running investigation to determine who allowed illegal immigrants to work at the plant, known locally as Columbia Farms. Investigating the employers, they said, is as large a priority as identifying illegal workers.














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