I am currently researching Quaker culture in Dallas, TX. I discovered that in 1983 the Dallas Quaker Meeting House agreed to provide sanctuary to Central American Immigrants in need. I am wondering if there is any record of an immigrant taking sanctuary through the meeting house, or any conflict with local law enforcement regarding a claim of sanctuary.
I found an article that notes that "data on the immigrant population, as recorded in the CPS, NHIS, census, and vital statistics, do not distinguish between naturalized immigrants, permanent residents, nonimmigrants (e.g., temporary workers, students, and visitors), and illegal immigrants" (Siahpush, M., & Singh, G. K. (2002). Ethnic-immigrant differentials in health behaviors, morbidity, and cause-specific mortality in the United States: an analysis of two national data bases. Human Biology, 74(1), 83-109). In other words, given the nature of the population, it won't be possible to get comprehensive statistics.
However, it might be possible to get a sense of trends for specific populations of undocumented immigrants. For example, this document mentions the prevalence of diabetes amongst Latinos:
This article mentions higher rates of diabetes among migrants more generally, but does not distinguish between documented and undocumented people:
Argeseanu Cunningham, S., Ruben, J. D., & Venkat Narayan, K. M. (2008). Health of foreign-born people in the United States: a review. Health & place, 14(4), 623-635.
Is there a particular group of immigrants that you're interested in? Or perhaps issues associated with undocumented people and health more generally?
The partly full text database Academic Search Premier might be a good place to start. It is available at most academic and a few large public libraries, sometimes under the title "Ebsco databases". It gets 93 articles for the search: Capitalis* and immigration and (law or laws or legal*), 54 of them if you click "scholarly/peer reviewed".
Most large university libraries will have Dissertations & Theses Full Text, and as with other databases, even members of the public can get access if they are on campus. Dissertations and Theses defaults to full text search, so for the above search, I would first try advanced search, to limit to "all fields- no full text" - because dissertations can be well over 100 pages long, and the words could be many pages apart and totally unrelated. This limited search gets 34 dissertations. If you do decide to try full text search, it's best to replace AND with the "proximity operator" - w/10, w/25, w/40, etc. ; to find dissertations that have those words within a set number of words of each other, at least in one place in their full text. This full text gets 130 results, for the search: Capitalis* W/30 immigration W/30 (law OR laws OR legal*). However, I am always a bit leery of trying to group words together for a proximity search. I recommend trying law, laws, legal.... Etc. separately; to see if that 130 total sounds reasonable when using all 3 in parentheses.
Unlike Dissertations & Theses, Academic Search defaults to title, journal title, abstract, subject, and author. If you "Select a field" TX All Text, Ebsco's proximity search is n10, n25, n50, etc. Please note that this proximity includes VERTICAL distance - n5 might get words in adjacent sentences or even several sentences apart, if one is right above the other in the text.
Hi! I am looking for journal articles or books that can provide some kind of analysis on the relationship between the extreme "crack down" on (im)migrant labourers / undocumented labourers, and political economy. Given that so many states, especially border states, and so many provinces, seem to benefit from the exploitation of workers in programs such as the temporary foreign workers program, seasonal labour programs, and from businesses that hire undocumented workers -- how do such harsh immigration laws work within the logic of capitalism? Or do they run up against it? Where could I find a discussion about the relationship between these things? I am interested in both liberal and anti-capitalist perspectives.
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I'm doing an article about a recent case in which 80-100 workers at Best Brands were laid off because their social security numbers were incorrect after the company did an internal audit. I was wondering if there is a legally mandated amount of time an employer is supposed to give an employee if there is an error found with his SSN#. I know that for employees that receive a no-match letter it's 90 days, but this is different because it comes from an internal audit that the company voluntarily did. In this case, when the Social Security Administration hasn't been involved, is the employer still required to give employees a certain amount of time to fix discrepancies?
People working on immigration matters might want to use The New Sanctuary Movement at http://www.newsanctuarymovement.org as a resource for undocumented residents seeking various kinds of assistance.
The focus of our project is identifying the effects of globalization at the community level. We are trying to identify data and information resources that demonstrates trends in the internationalization (i.e. migration - including migrant sending and receiving countries/communities - and international trade patterns) and then tying those to a generation (last 15-20 years) of primarily neoliberal foreign and economic policy choices. The goal is identify 12 communities for further study on local impacts and the ways communities respond to the positive and negative aspects of these trends.
