Undocumented Immigrants Archives

Migration

The Supreme Court’s DACA Ruling & Me

On being superfluous

July 1, 2020 • by José Ángel Navejas

When I crossed the border from Mexico in 1993, there were no doubts about what I would do once I arrived in Chicago: find a job in a factory, or wash dishes, or get down on my knees to scrub dirty toilets, whichever came first. In Mexico, I had grown ...

Migration

Essential Services

The Unique, Unadressed Plight of Undocumented Immigrants in the COVID Crisis

April 7, 2020 • by José Ángel Navejas

What makes the current crisis familiar is the sense of foreboding, of knowing oneself disposable at any moment. What makes it contradictory is the impossibility of staying put. For most of us, staying home is as unnatural as it is illogical. A violation of our faith in universal principles. If ...

Education

Undocumented in the Ivory Tower

An excerpt from “Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics”

May 23, 2019 • by Alessandra Bazo Vienrich

Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability and Resistance documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the ...

Feature

What Would New York’s ‘Guaranteed Health Care Plan’ Actually Accomplish?

Mayor de Blasio’s proposal is designed to take advantage of New York City’s large public hospital system to offer a different non-insurance option to the uninsured

February 10, 2019 • by Barbara Caress

In his State of the City address last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised a “guaranteed health care plan” for New York City residents. It’s designed to address the fact that currently roughly one in 10 working-age New Yorkers – some 600,000 adults – is uninsured, a figure derived from ...

What Would New York’s ‘Guaranteed Health Care Plan’ Actually Accomplish?

Feature

Sexual Assault and the Other

On the Contemporary Politicization of Sexual Violence

August 30, 2018 • by Maria Bucur

Though it has been receiving a lot of attention in the media since the #MeToo movement started, sexual violence remains a poorly understood phenomenon. But the statistics on this crime of national proportions are getting better, because the climate of accountability and protection for victims has actually improved over the ...

Feature

Justice Through Solidarity

Bernice Yeung’s In a Day’s Work

July 23, 2018 • by Eileen Boris

Bernice Yeung exposes the sexual harassment and rape endemic to isolated fields, offices, and homes. Despite poverty, undocumented status, and economic desperation, women farmworkers, janitors, and domestic workers have mustered the courage to overcome shame and speak out against abuse. Yeung chronicles their personal journeys. Nonetheless, it is easy to ...

Migration

A Civics Lesson for Trump and Sessions

Sanctuary Cities and the Trump Administration

April 25, 2018 • by John Lawrence

As if we needed any further reminders of the reckless disregard for law and the Constitution rampant in the Trump Era, a panel of Republican federal judges has forcefully rejected efforts to punish so-called Sanctuary Cities by curtailing federal grant funds. It is a fair barometer to assume that when ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Desy: Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

In this project, IWS-NYC members perform interviews with women organizers from worker centers and cooperatives, as part of a process of militant knowledge co-production. We are particularly interested in unpacking the conditions that both enable and limit autonomous labor organizing and self-determination, as well as the way in which feminist ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Desy: Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) (Español)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...

Desy: Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) (Español)

International Women's Strike NYC

Erika: Worker’s Justice Project and Eco-cleaning Coop

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

In this project, IWS-NYC members perform interviews with women organizers from worker centers and cooperatives, as part of a process of militant knowledge co-production. We are particularly interested in unpacking the conditions that both enable and limit autonomous labor organizing and self-determination, as well as the way in which feminist ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Erika: Worker’s Justice Project and Eco-Cleaning Coop (Español)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...