http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/ A product of the Medill News Service, ImmHT provides a cross-national perspective on immigration, enhancing exposure to world affairs for Americans, providing public space to air compelling stories about diaspora populations, and serving as a repository of facts and figures in an arena of often misleading information. en Copyright 2008 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:23:48 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss There are so many obstacles and struggles, and it is difficult adjusting to a new language and culture. On top of all that, no one should have to worry about being the target of a crime as awful as this. (Lumicao, referring to the drowning of a Vietnamese fisherman who was pushed into Lake Michigan to his death on Sept. 1, 2007, Chicago Tribune, Sept. 9, 2007) http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/09/like_any_immigrant_experience.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/09/like_any_immigrant_experience.php Quotables Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:23:48 -0600 "The creation of the bracero program created a labor supply which, on one hand, is ready and willing to meet the short term work requirements and which, on the other hand, will not impose social and economic problems on them or on their community when the work is finished. The demand for migratory workers is essentially two-fold: to be ready to go to work when needed; to be gone when not needed." Quoted in Kitty CALAVITA, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration and the INS, New York: Routledge, 1992, p.21 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/the_demand_for_migratory_worke.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/the_demand_for_migratory_worke.php Quotables Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:59:04 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/post_10.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/post_10.php Quotables Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:43:08 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/migration_is_one_of_the_fault.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/migration_is_one_of_the_fault.php Quotables Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:05:30 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/12/some_of_us_are_illegal_and_som.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/12/some_of_us_are_illegal_and_som.php Quotables Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:18:06 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/i_got_800_miles_of_bolted_bord.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/i_got_800_miles_of_bolted_bord.php Quotables Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:48:03 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/if_you_want_a_new_life_whats_a.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/if_you_want_a_new_life_whats_a.php Quotables Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:02:58 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/i_guess_they_think_that_were_a.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/i_guess_they_think_that_were_a.php Quotables Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:56:49 -0600 Across The Borderline Lyrics - Ry Cooder Ry Cooder - Across The Borderline Lyrics (ry cooder/john hiatt/james dickinson) There's a place where I've been told Every street is paved with gold And it's just across the borderline And when it's time to take your turn Here's one lesson that you must learn You could lose more than you'll ever hope to find When you reach the broken promised land And every dream slips through your hands Then you'll know that it's too late to change your mind 'cause you've paid the price to come so far Just to wind up http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/hope_remains_when_pride_is_gon.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/hope_remains_when_pride_is_gon.php Quotables Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:51:57 -0600 Lyrics as reprinted in Pete Seeger (ed.), The Nearly Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs, London, 1973, pp. 24-25 © 1961 Ludlow Music, Inc. The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps2; They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again CHORUS: Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees" My father's own father, he waded that river, They http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/you_wont_have_your_names_when.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/you_wont_have_your_names_when.php Quotables Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:23:45 -0600 Quotes from The Suitcase, edited by Julie Mertus, Jasmina Tesanovic, Habiba Metikos and Rada Boric. http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/when_youre_a_refugee_nobody_as.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/when_youre_a_refugee_nobody_as.php Quotables Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:55:25 -0600 "They blame me for having to flee, for having to abandon you all, as if I were a thief. As if I were a foreigner." "You are just imagining all that," his wife replies. "Then why," Emilio retorts, "don't they write me more often?" Aub writes about the sense of guilt that exiles feel when having to leave their country, their famillies and loved ones. His character, Emilio, expresses this feeling when thinking about the choice he had to make to leave his wife and children in Spain, believing that they resent his choice. As he reflects on his decisions http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/they_blame_me_for_having_to_fl.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/they_blame_me_for_having_to_fl.php Quotables Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:10:36 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/she_had_spoken_in_english_to_a.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/she_had_spoken_in_english_to_a.php Quotables Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:23:11 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/freedom_is_nothing_else_but_a.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/freedom_is_nothing_else_but_a.php Quotables Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:24:13 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/the_duteous_son_the_sire_decay.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/the_duteous_son_the_sire_decay.php Quotables Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:19:35 -0600