Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 6, 2020, an Asian woman was attacked with acid outside her Brooklyn home by an unknown perpetrator, leaving chemical burns on her face, in addition to mental and emotional trauma.1 Although the attacker got away and no clear motive has been established, this likely hate crime occurred during a nationwide … Read more
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, Spring 2018) is anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipina migrants and their families in the Philippines and the main objective of this book is to make visible all of the forms, roles and definitions of social reproductive labor and care work required in the maintenance … Read more
How is nursing tied to histories of capitalist imperialism in India and the United States? How was it divided by gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, region and religion? How do we find the stories of marginalized women workers in the archives? What happens when we ask Indian nurses about their own life stories? A talk that traces the shifting positions of Indian nurses within an international division of nursing labor, and connects the colonization of the Indian subcontinent, the racial apartheid of the Jim and Jane Crow United States, the construction of Cold War neocolonialism, and the last major overhaul of U.S. immigration law over fifty years ago.
Source: CUNY ALR | Advancing the Field of Labor Relations
Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Underground Undergrads: A Conversation About the DREAM Act Date: Monday, June 15, 2009 Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan This student publication, Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out, features the … Read more
Is it even conceivable that there could be a labor shortage in China? Knowledgeable people have diametrically different views. The question itself operates like a Rorschach inkblot: the answer tells more about the presumptions of the respondents than the reality facing them. But there is a reality and there is an answer, and the implications … Read more