Immigration Archives – Page 12 of 12

Latinas Create Own Domestic Violence Strategies

By Mariel Garza ● Uncategorized ● May 10, 2001

Latinas told advocates they wanted an end to family violence, but not their relationships with their spouses or companions. Now, several agencies have culturally specific programs for Latinos, while committing themselves to the safety of Latinas.

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Unregulated Internet Matchmaking Trade Booms

By Kim Palchikoff ● Uncategorized ● March 2, 2001

From a former Soviet Republic, it seemed like a wonderful plan for a bright and restless 18-year-old: Marry an American and be whisked away to the land of opportunity and wealth. She had no way of knowing her husband-to-be had done this all before.

Battered Guatemalan Facing Deportation

By Megan A. Costello ● Crime & Law ● January 17, 2001

Women’s advocates are urgently petitioning Attorney General Janet Reno to help a battered Guatemalan woman remain in the U.S., arguing she deserves asylum because her home country tolerates extreme gender violence.

Sex Bias in Citizenship Law Challenged

By Victoria Graham ● Commentary ● January 10, 2001

Challenging one of the few remaining gender-based federal statutes, women’s advocates urged the Supreme Court to overturn the law that makes it harder for fathers to transmit citizenship to their foreign-born children than it does for mothers.

Bipartisan Women Made Anti-Violence Act Happen

By Ann Moline ● Politics ● December 18, 2000

The current partisan bickering and the 50-50 split in the next Senate make it critical that true bipartisanship prevail in the 107th Congress. Here’s a rare story of bipartisan success: two women who teamed up to help battered immigrant women.

Scholars Contrast Childhood’s Rhetoric, Reality

By Barbara Raab ● Employment ● October 26, 2000

They claim treatment of kids is hypocritical. We say all kids need care, protection and education, but kids who commit crimes are prosecuted as adults, and kids who become parents are said to be responsible for most of the nation’s social problems.

Albright: Woman President Sooner Rather Than Later

By Victoria Graham ● Politics ● September 19, 2000

The White House Project promotes women for top leadership, including the Presidency, and seeks to make the political climate welcoming. But today, women constitute only nine of 100 U.S. Senators, 53 of 435 representatives and three among 50 governors.

Uppity Lady Labor Leader Leads Immigrants to Win

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Employment ● August 14, 2000

Just as old time immigrants from Europe energized the struggling American labor movement last century, today’s new immigrants, whether from Somalia or Malaysia, are increasingly important, wooed by labor and readily galvanized.

Awareness Growing of Abused Immigrant Spouses

By Laura Marble ● Politics ● August 10, 2000

She arrives here full of hope. She marries and becomes a mother. The right to stay here depends, however, on her husband’s cooperation. He doesn’t cooperate, but he does begin to beat her and taunt her because of her legal vulnerability.