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Unlike the majority of workers, domestic workers — such as housekeepers and paid caregivers of children and the elderly — remain invisible, laboring in the private setting of the home. This situation can lead to exploitative labor conditions. The International Labour Organization (ILO), a U.N. agency that promotes opportunities for workers to obtain decent and productive work, recently agreed to a Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, establishing international standards to improve working conditions for as many as 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the majority of whom are women and young girls. “It will take a Herculean effort to achieve decent work for domestic workers in the United States,” says Peggie Smith, JD, employment law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “At present, none of the major pieces of federal labor legislation in the United States comply with the standards in the convention.”

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, a faculty member at the Cornell University Law School and an authority on U.S. immigration law, is available for interviews after the 1 p.m. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announcement today. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, will unveil several initiatives that are designed to attract and retain foreign entrepreneurs, particularly in the high-tech sector, who wish to launch start-up companies in the United States.

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Thomas Arcury, Ph.D., professor of family medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is director of the Center for Worker Health, which promotes worker and occupational health research and practice. It brings together investigators, health care providers, community members and business leaders interested in protecting and promoting worker health. Dr. Arcury is a consulting editor of the Journal of Environmental Education, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and the Journal of Agromedicine

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Parents who move to the United States without legal status generally seek better opportunities for their young children. But a new survey of life trajectories of undocumented young adults raised and educated in America shows that they end up with the same labor jobs as their parents, working in construction, restaurants, cleaning and childcare services.

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A survey of life trajectories of undocumented young adults raised and educated in America shows that they end up with the same labor jobs as their parents: working in construction, restaurants, and cleaning and childcare services.

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An Indiana University of Pennsylvania faculty member studied how humor or verbal play doesn’t always translate accurately into different languages during immigration hearings.

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University of Maryland archaeologists are reconstructing the inner world of early Irish immigrants - of city children taught at home to read before widespread public education or child labor laws, and insular rural communities defying assimilation. "These people helped build the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol," says UMD’s Stephen Brighton.

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Some Midwestern communities are bucking the outmigration trend according to two new reports that profile those communities, their amenities and some of the keys to their economic vitality.

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For the first time in decades Iowa has a minority majority town, and a University of Iowa researcher said it shows how profoundly the cultural face of the state and the Midwest is changing.

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A new national survey of Americans’ attitudes on immigration, race, ethnicity and religion, conducted by Hamilton College, shows a large majority of Americans (60%) support allowing legal immigrants to vote in local elections, with the strongest support coming from young Americans and opposed only by a majority of those over age 60.

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Immigrants to the United States and their U.S.-born children gain more than a new life and new citizenship. They gain weight. Now psychologists show that it’s not simply the abundance of high-calorie American junk food that causes weight gain. Instead, members of U.S. immigrant groups choose typical American dishes as a way to show that they belong and to prove their American-ness.

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Illegal immigrants find it harder to pay taxes and submit tax returns because of tighter immigration restrictions, according to a study looking at unauthorized Mexican immigrants’ rates of paying Social Security and federal taxes, submitting tax returns and opening bank and credit card accounts.

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People who migrate to the United States from Mexico have a significantly higher risk of developing depressive or anxiety disorders than family members of migrants who remain in Mexico, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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As figures from the 2010 census are released, political scientist Rafael Jimeno of the University of Arkansas is available to discuss emerging political preferences and behaviors of Latinos both in the South and nationally. He draws on findings from the 2010 Blair-Rockefeller Poll.

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UK's new interdisciplinary initiative for policy and social research, QIPSR, will sponsor a conference on immigration this week.

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More immigrants from around the world are moving directly into Chicago's northern suburbs, bypassing the city as the traditionally more affordable port of entry, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Anyone who cares about the rule of law has to acknowledge that illegal immigration has serious social costs that cannot be casually dismissed, says immigration law expert Stephen Legomsky, JD, DPhil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. “When millions of individuals violate any law — whether it’s immigration, taxes or exceeding the posted speed limit — the rule of law takes a hit. But sometimes, mass violations reveal flaws in the law itself. At any rate, the rule of law also means that the penalties should not be disproportionate to the wrongdoing.”

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Native residents of a neighborhood are more likely to move out when immigrants move in, according to new research by three American sociologists.

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Early childhood educators have been scrambling to adapt to the expanding needs of refugee children by creating communication methods for the 2.6 million immigrants who have moved to Refugee Resettlement Programs in the U.S. since 1975.

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As members of Congress spar over whether or not to provide tuition benefits and a path to legalization to undocumented students through the DREAM Act, an examination of the nation’s first state-level “dream act” indicates such policy effectively boosts college enrollment by these students.

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American University has experts available to provide commentary about higher education, immigration and the DREAM Act.

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Enrique Krauze, recognized as leading visionary on Mexico's political future, discussed American attitudes about their southern neighbor prior to his Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture at University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Oct. 27.

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The National Association For Continence (NAFC) along with Natividad Medical Foundation and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) jointly brought a public health education and awareness message recently to Monterey County, CA expanding outreach to Hispanic communities to include migrant farm workers in the area.

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More immigrants settle in Toronto than in any other Canadian city, but that decision may be adversely affecting their children's mental health, finds a national study led by Ryerson University.

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Indo-Canadians are the second-largest immigrant group in Canada, encompassing one of the largest diasporas living outside India. But, according to one Ryerson researcher, Canada is not fully benefiting from the economic edge offered by Indo-Canadians and other transnational entrepreneurs.

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South Asians living in the United States are at much higher risk for type 2 diabetes than are whites and immigrants from other Asian countries, a new small study reveals.

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Laszlo Kulcsar, associate professor of sociology at K-State, examined Hispanic immigration hot spots in southwest Kansas, specifically in cities with large meatpacking plants. Historically these cities see a larger increase in population as well as more cultural diversity because of the jobs offered at the packing plants.

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In spite of Canada’s universal medical coverage, immigrants to that country have about the same access to certain preventive procedures as immigrants to the United States.

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Fostering community cooperation, building on skills and strengths, and getting strangers to work together -- these are fundamentals of community development.

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In a new book, Indiana University professor Yvette Alex-Assensoh and three co-authors examine how changes in immigration have affected the efforts of long-standing U.S. minority groups to gain full democratic inclusion.

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Countries that restrict labor movements from other countries might be missing out on a great economic development opportunity not only locally, but for the world as a whole, according to a University of Iowa economist.

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Given the controversy and the fact the U.S. government is a party challenging the law, it makes sense that a federal court would put the Arizona immigration law on hold so the legal and constitutional questions can be discussed and pondered in a measured way, according to Rick Su, an expert on immigration law and local government at the University at Buffalo Law School.

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Experts are available to speak about immigration law and policy, healthcare and cultural and political history.

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As Americans continue to debate immigration reform, border enforcement and Arizona's recent legislation, experts from The University of Texas at Austin are offering their views on these issues through a series of online videos.

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A foreign accent undermines a person’s credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don’t consciously realize, research shows. Because an accent makes a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to find what the person says as truthful, researchers found. The problem of credibility increases with the severity of the accent.

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The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed July 6 against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law will likely see partial success, according to a Washington University in St. Louis law professor. But he predicts the legal battle will extend beyond Arizona.

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Indiana University dean John Graham, a former administrator in the White House OMB, says it may be too late for bipartisan support of immigration reform.

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A Texas Tech University expert on immigration and border history says that the law is no different than the Repatriation Act of the 1930s or Operation Wetback of the 1950s.

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While some Latino immigrants to the United States may be accepted as “white” by the wider society, a new American Sociological Review (ASR) study finds that many of them face discrimination based on skin color. In fact, the research showed that relatively darker-skinned Latinos earned less than their lighter-skinned counterparts.

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While some Latino immigrants to the United States may be accepted as “white” by the wider society, a new study finds that many of them face discrimination based on skin color.

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As it plays out on cable television news shows and newspaper opinion pages, the question of immigration can seem like an enormous problem that appeared overnight from nowhere. Among the things Williams College Professor Scott Wong wants his students to understand is that there is much more to the conversation, and that it is has long been intricately woven into any discussion of what it means to be American.

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Arizona recently adopted a new law giving police the authority to inquire about a person’s immigration status during a stop, detention, or arrest. The APA interviewed social psychologist John Dovidio, PhD, of Yale University about the new law. Dr. Dovidio studies issues of social power and social relationships including the influence of explicit and implicit bias.

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Experts at The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss a host of topics relating to immigration reform and the border – from the rise in U.S.-Mexico border violence, to the consequences of Arizona’s new immigration law.

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Following the terrorist attacks of 9-11, the United States enacted a series of laws as part of the war on terror. According to one Ryerson University researcher, this legislation has had an unforeseen impact on America’s immigrants and immigration policies.

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A Baylor Law School professor has studied the new Arizona immigration law and believes it will result in racial profiling and violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Immigration law expert Stephen Yale-Loehr, co-author of a 20-volume treatise on immigration law, and Cornell University Law School adjunct professor, comments on the controversial new Arizona immigration-enforcement law.

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Gottlieb Memorial Hospital ophthalmologist comments on retinal scanning, part of a proposed biometric Social Security card for all Americans to aid in proper identification.

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Bradatan said she thinks the 2010 Census may be more complete and the results perhaps less shocking thanks to the American Community Survey.

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Although Gerardo Sandoval's new book is about the revitalization of a downtown L.A. immigrant community, he's finding the same intricate global relationships are at play in rural Iowa's meatpacking towns. With growing immigrant populations, they're on "the cutting edge of globalization," says the Iowa State assistant professor of community and regional planning.

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Currently, foreign-born people make up approximately 13 percent of the total U.S. population. As the immigrant population grows, understanding its disability status and employment characteristics becomes increasingly important. People, both native and foreign-born, with disabilities make important contributions to our society, and many individuals continue to work despite a wide range of impairments. A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital focuses on disability and employment among working-age immigrants in the United States.