Angel Island — Ellis Island’s Racist Uncle that We Don’t Like to Talk About
Angel Island Immigration Facility (Creative Commons Licensed) The US public education system teaches our early immigration history with near explicit reference to Ellis Island—the treasured, New York-based home of early arrivals to the States. Its West Coast...
Cuban Migration’s Living History
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1jr7T8ei_xl0PQE1K4fmqVpaLKeok-pJ13HCNQ2LlkLw&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650 Timeline illustrating Cuban Immigration to the US Symbols of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
10 Years of DACA: Part One
June 15th 2022 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as DACA, in the United States. During the 10 years that DACA has existed, there have been many changes, good and bad, that have not only affected the...
Landscape as Cultural Ideology: Philadelphia Reading Terminal Market’s Immigrant Cuisine
Reading Terminal Market on 12th and Filbert Streets; Author: Bruce Anderson; Permission: GNU Free Documentation License. Philadelphia’s food markets welcome their visitors to remarkably liminal spaces. Often dominated by immigrant cuisine, their vendors produce...
Homemaking, Identity, and Social Economy – A History of Arab Migration to the United States
Meet Ribhia Abdelhady, my grandmother: a Palestinian-American whose migration narrative taps into the nuanced history of the Arab movement from the Middle East to the United States. On the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli military forced Abdelhady out of her...
Immigration and Racial Geopolitics – What Can the Ukrainian Crisis Teach Us?
The United States and Europe historically favor white immigrant and refugee groups. Enshrining some coagulated, indiscriminate whiteness, the West has pushed global immigration to the nexus of racial politics. From each corner of the historically and racially...
H2B Visas can be Solution to Labor Shortage Issues for Seasonal US Businesses.
American businesses have struggled for years to hire qualified workers for seasonal positions, a problem that has worsened as the economy rebounds from the pandemic amid a general labor shortage. The H2B visa program, which allows the hiring of qualified foreign...
UKRAINIAN NATIONALS AND FORMS OF ASYLUM AND REFUGEE PROTECTION
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 over 4.6 million refugees have fled Ukraine to seek safety in other countries. Another 7 million Ukrainians are internally displaced. In this and a second blog post to follow next week, we will briefly...
Sue your way to Citizenship: How to use Federal Litigation to Resolve Long Delayed Naturalization.
Naturalization is one of the most rewarding elements of our jobs as attorneys at Solow, Hartnett and Galvan. Naturalization is the culmination of many years of hard work and dedication by our clients that allows them to become United States...
Potential fee increase for H-1B and L-1 Petitions
“Cheap labor” believers often forget to acknowledge the expensive fees that go along with filing H-1B petitions, or the large number of much needed job openings in their profession. H-1B visas could become more expensive if the House reconciliation bill becomes law,...
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