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Issue 6.3 | Summer 2008 — Borders on Belonging: Gender and Immigration

Online Resources

American Civil Liberties Union
Campaign: Immigrants’ Rights
Publications:
– “Conditions of Confinement in Immigration Detention Facilities”
– “Human Rights Abuses Under the Material Witness Law Since Sept. 11, 2001”

American Friends Service Committee
Campaign: Immigrant’s Rights

Catholic Legal Immigration Network
Reports:
– At-Risk Reports
– “Immigrant-Led Organizers in Their Own Voices: Local Realities and Shared Visions”

Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans

Coalition for Humane Immigration Right of Los Angeles
Publication:
– “Portraits of Immigrants in Los Angeles County” (PDF)

Immigration Equality
Publications:
– “Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law”
– “HIV and Immigration”
– “LGBT Immigration Basics”
– Immigration Equality Newsletters

Immigrant Financial Justice Project
Brochures:
– “Truth About Immigrants’ Banking Rights”
– In Spanish: Verdad Sobre los Derechos de los Inmigrantes en el Sistema Bancario
– In Arabic: Truth About Immigrants’ Banking Rights
– “Sending Money Home: Consumer Rights and Options in NYC”
– In Spanish: Enviando Remesas: Derechos de Consumidores y Opciones en NYC
– “Consular IDs and Bank Accounts for Immigrants”
– In Spanish: Identificaciones Consulares y Cuentas Bancarias para Inmigrantes
– In French: Identification Consulaire & Comptes Bancaires pour les Immigrants
Reports:
– “Paying More for the American Dream: The Subprime Shakeout and Its Impact on Lower-Income and Minority Communities”
– “Paying More for the American Dream: A Multi-State Analysis of Higher Cost Home Purchase Lending”
– “Predatory Tax-Time Loans Strip $324 Million from NY’s Poorest Communities”
– “Promoting Financial Justice for Immigrant New Yorkers”

Institute For Gender Research – University of Calgary
Report:
– “Migrant Women, Family Violence, and Pathways Out of Homelessness”

Love Sees No Borders (Binational Couples)

The Love Exiles Foundation

Make the Road
Annual Report

National Center for Lesbian Rights
The Immigration Project:
– NCLR Immigration Project Brochure
– “Foreign and International Law in Gay Rights Litigation: Separated and Unequal”

National Immigration Forum
Publications

National Immigration Law Center
“National Resource List for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Immigrants” (PDF)

National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights Resources
Reports:
– “Over-Raided, Under Siege: US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants”
– “Human Rights and Human Security at Risk: The Consequences of Placing Immigration Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security”
– “A World On the Move:A Report from the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance: A Resource Guide on International Migrant Rights”
– “From the Borderline to the Colorline: A report on Anti-Immigrant Racism in the United States”
– “Hands that Shape the World: Report on the Conditions of Immigrant Women in the U.S. Five Years after the Beijing Conference”
– “Portrait of Injustice: The Impact of Immigration Raids on Families, Workers, and Communities”

New Immigrant Community Empowerment

New York Association for New Immigrants
Annual Report

The New York Immigration Coalition
Publications:
– Fact Sheets
– Working Papers
– NYIC News
Reports:
– “Access to Health Care After Immigration Reform—Recommendations for Policymakers”
– “So Many Schools so Few Options: How Mayor Bloomberg’s Small School Reforms Deny full Access To Immigrant Students”
– “Living in Isolation: Issues of Access to City Housing Services Among Immigrant New Yorkers”
– “Protecting New York’s Workers: How the State Department of Labor Can Improve Wage-and-Hour Enforcement”
– “Immigrant Worker Minimum Wage Report”

Pew Hispanic Center
Reports:
– “Gender and Migration”

Statistics Norway
Publications:
– “Gender and Migration: Similarities and Disparities Among Women and Men in the Immigrant Population”

UNIFEM
Publications:
– “Claim and Celebrate Women Migrant’s Human Rights Through CEDAW”
– “My Life Changed: Female Migration, Perceptions and Impacts”
– “Human Rights Protections Applicable to Women Migrant Workers: A UNIFEM Briefing Paper”
“Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia: A Briefing Kit”

United Nations – WomenWatch
Publications:
– “Women and Migration” (PDF)
– “Migration and Remittances Have Impacts on Gender Equality in the Philippines”