Immigration
Results for Immigration
- Letters to a Desi Radical (in the Making): Review of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today by Vijay Prashad
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Junaid Rana gives his take on Vijay Prashad's latest text, Uncle Swami ...
- Voices Of Resistance 10: Arts and 9/11
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A reflection on SAPAC's visual arts exhibit and performance event, Voices of Resistance 10:Revision ...
- Enemy Alien
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After the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government adopted a policy of singling out and deporting all deportable persons in the United States from Muslim and Arab countries. Caught up in this dragnet, Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti was arrested and ...
- The Decade in American Islamophobia
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To me, 9/11 took a city I love and broke my heart. As a turning point in American history, this moment took the racial diversity in New York City and quickly turned that complexity into suspicion, scapegoating, and racism – heralding the Age of Terror in ...
- A Decade of Detention: The Post 9/11 Immigrant Dragnet
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Immigration law, once a set of civil administrative rules to regulate population flow – has become part of the enforcement apparatus of a government that functions increasingly as a police state. The politics of fear have changed the whole nature of ...
- The Arab World’s Forgotten Rebellions: Foreign Workers and Biopolitics in the Gulf
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Both the Arab Spring and Gulf worker actions are, broadly, about dignity and justice; both challenge the status quo of unaccountable family/security-states; and both are met with ferocious responses by those states. Yet, the Gulf worker actions are ...
- Mississippi Mutiny Challenges Anti-Trafficking Law
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South Asian migrant shipyard workers who were promised Green Cards protest against miserable working and living conditions in Mississippi. The case challenges policies towards and perceptions of victims of human trafficking. ...
- Behind Swing Doors: South Asian Workers Speak
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Interviews with New York City food service industry workers ...
- Power of Love and Money
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Sending a remittance is an individual act of love from the sender to the receiver. Collectively, it can be transformed into economic power. ...
- The Time is Right for the Desi Vote
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The South Asian community of New York City provides a compelling case for what a widespread and organized effort to register and mobilize voters could look like. ...
