We at the IRC strongly believe that this is a critical moment for immigration reform in the United States. For several years, we have watched with consternation as restrictionist forces have gained ground in communities, public policy, and political discourse. While there have always been brave voices to protest the violation of immigrant rights, we have seen a relative weakness in mounting a unified and coherent defense of immigrants and building a compelling call for reform.
In the current political context where security concerns are defined as paramount, those efforts have been further complicated. We feel it is time to look at the immigration issue in new ways, which take into account the concerns of all involved: community members, immigrants, workers, and human rights advocates.
We have put together a series of articles on immigration to engender dialogue and provide food for thought on the issues.
Analysis
Why has immigration become such a hot social and political issue in the past few years? What is the intersection between immigration policy, domestic economic policy, and foreign policy in these times of rapid economic globalization and the global war on terrorism? And what are the outlines of a comprehensive immigration reform that would resolve the immigration policy crisis, protect immigrant and worker rights, and address legitimate citizen concerns, while at the same time deflating the agenda of the hard-line restrictionists who are setting the terms of the national policy debate?
By Laura Carlsen:
NAFTA Inequality and Immigration
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4705
The Slow Slide to Barbarity
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4237
Migrants: Globalization's Junk Mail?
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4022
Doublespeak in Congress and Soldiers on the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3319
Labor's May Day Call from Both Sides of the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3263
Protests Turn the Tide on Immigration Debate
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3207
Bad Blood on the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3096
By Tom Barry:
Losing the War of Ideas, Again
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4823
Planning the War on Immigrants
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4816
Pushing the Anti-Immigration Agenda Further Right
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/4077
The Right's "War for the Free World": U.S. Immigration Debate Splits Conservatives
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3405
Tom Tancredo: Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist, and Iran Freedom Fighter
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3281
Tom Tancredo: Leader of the Anti-Immigrant Populist Revolt
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3005
Immigration Advocates Face Challenges
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/387
Politics of Class and Corporations
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/224
Immigration Debate: Politics, Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/652
The Immigration Debate: Whose Side Are You On?
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/784
Pushing Our Borders Out
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/804
Restrictionism Resurgent in Post-9/11 Politics: Protect America Now
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/710
"Common Sense" Immigration Reform—What's FAIR got to do with it?
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3053
Which Side Are the Republicans On?
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3145
Which Way Immigration Reform? Toward A Comprehensive Immigration Policy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3161
By others:
Apaches Rise to Defend Homelands from Homeland Security, Brenda Norrell
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4884
Senate Bill a Step Backwards for Immigrant Rights, Oscar A. Chacón
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4293
In the Crossfire: Mesoamerican Migrants Journey North, by Miguel Pickard
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/741
Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America, by Luis Hernández Navarro
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/959
How U.S. Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration, by David Bacon
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/996
The ABCs of Immigration Reform, by Sean Garcia
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/1792
U.S. Immigration Policy on the Table at the WTO, by Sarah Anderson
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2962
The Benefits of Dual Citizenship, by Michele Wucker
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3119
Profiles
Center for Immigration Studies
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1452
Council of Conservative Citizens
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1461
Federation for American Immigration Reform
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1467
Immigration Reform Caucus
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1484
NumbersUSA
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1528
ProjectUSA
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1538
Social Contract Press
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1539
Tom Tancredo
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3006
John Tanton
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1360
Language Restrictionism
Center for Equal Opportunity
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/926
ProEnglish
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1533
U.S. English
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1557
Resources
Immigration Resource List
http://americas.irc-online.org/pdf/ImmigResList.pdf
IRC Americas Program Immigration Index
http://americas.irc-online.org/amindex/immig/
