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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR? THE DUTY OF CARE IN THE IMMIGRATION CONTEXT: A PERSPECTIVE FROM CANADIAN CASE LAW

open access: yesThe Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2017
This article reviews and analyzes recent Canadian jurisprudence on immigration-related torts, situating it in the context of the contrasting logic of immigration and tort law.
Sasha Baglay
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Impact of Alabama's immigration law on access to health care among Latina immigrants and children: implications for national reform.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2014
We conducted in-depth interviews in May to July 2012 to evaluate the effect of Alabama's 2011 omnibus immigration law on Latina immigrants and their US- and foreign-born children's access to and use of health services.
Karissa White   +3 more
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The Immigrant Plight/Immigration Law: A Study in Intractability

open access: yesColumbia Journal of Race and Law, 2012
This Essay provides a new theoretical perspective on colorism by considering it from an economic point of view. It relies on three theories of law and economics that explain racism. While critiquing these theories, it also extends them to evaluate colorism.
openaire   +4 more sources

The Italian Immigration Law: the Experience with Tunisia [PDF]

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2001
Faced with the need to fill a legal vacuum that existed in the area of immigration and to deal with the entry of immigrants and policies on immigration, Italy’s centre-left government headed by Romano Prodi initiated a process of drafting a ...
Giorgio Napolitano
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Migrant domestic workers, vulnerability and the law: immigration and employment laws in Cyprus and Spain

open access: yesInvestigaciones Feministas, 2016
The intersection of gender, welfare and immigration regimes has been one of the main focus of a rich scholarship on paid domestic work in Europe. This article brings into the discussion the nexus of employment and immigration law regimes to reflect on ...
Vera Pavlou
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Inconvenient marriages, or what happens when ethnic minorities marry trans-jurisdictionally

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2010
This article presents evidence of a trend in the practice of British immigration control of denying recognition to marriages which take place trans-jurisdictionally across national and continental boundaries and across different state jurisdictions.
Prakash Shah
doaj   +1 more source

Third-Party Brokers: How Administrative Burdens on Nonprofit Attorneys Worsen Immigrant Legal Inequality

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
What happens when an administrative burden regime targets third-party brokers? This article describes the experiences of legal aid immigration attorneys during the Donald Trump administration, which made hundreds of changes to immigration law, policy ...
Lilly Yu
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Duress in Immigration Law

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Throughout diverse areas of law, the duress doctrine offers a way to understand culpability for criminal conduct, carving out space to reduce blame for those who acted under threat of imminent and severe consequences. Within immigration law, however, the doctrine is utterly incoherent — applicable in some areas (from criminal law to terrorism to ...
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‘Tied Visas’ and Inadequate Labour Protections: A formula for abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2015
This article examines the link between restrictive immigration schemes, specifically ‘tied visas’ and the selective application of labour laws, with exploitation of workers.
Daphne Demetriou
doaj   +1 more source

Pathways to Permanence: Legal Status Transitions as a Key Mechanism in Skilled Migrant Selection and Settlement

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
Despite impassioned debates about immigration reform brewing in the U.S. government, researchers know remarkably little about how immigration policy shapes migration behavior.
Elizabeth M. Jacobs
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