Behind Bars
Behind Bars

Author: S. Oboler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 023010147X

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This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls prisons, and the post incarceration experience.

Proceedings of the 1995 Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy
Proceedings of the 1995 Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy

Author: Lydio F. Tomasi

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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The Center for Migration Studies in New York, an educational non-profi institute, organizes an annual legal conference on immigration and refugee polic proceedings of these conferences are published in a series entitled In Defence o Alien and this text represents the eighteenth volume of that series and covers 1 text is divided into five parts. Part 1 focuses on the impact of the 1990 Immig employment-based immigration categories and also deals with issues related to fa immigration. Part 2 discusses questions related to the impact of immigration on federal-state relations in the US. Part 3 considers the debate about the ent non-citizens to health care. Part 4 reviews changes in asylum law and practice icludes commentary on the 1994 safe haven policy for Caribbean boat people and t increased protection being offered to women who are victims of gender-related vi Part 5 looks at the new movement to cut back on US jus soli rules and not to gr citizenship to those born to aliens temporarily or illegally in the US. Academi administrators and human rights advocates contributed to the proceedings.