Tag: immigrants
Higher education can be elusive for asylum-seekers and immigrants
Kerri Evans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Ishara Casellas Connors, Texas A&M University, and Lisa Unangst, SUNY Empire State College
Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, American University
Every summer, people flock to Maryland to eat blue crabs. Named for their brilliant sapphire-colored...
Migrants often can’t access US health care until they are critically...
Anthony Jimenez, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Can you tell me about cancer care for the undocumented?” I asked Henry...
5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working...
Lupita D. Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder and Aaron Lamplugh, University of Colorado Boulder
Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with...
Immigrants and some people of color are moving to the suburbs...
Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University
In the traditional American image of suburbia, the majority of residents are predominately native-born white Americans, living in large single-family...
Why Trump’s stoking of white racial resentment is effective – but...
Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Eric Hoyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many white men say they feel threatened by the increasing presence...