Tag Archives: Immigration
The draft immigration reform bill is a mixed bag for women and LGBTQ folks
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post from Verónica Bayetti Flores. Verónica is the Assistant Director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program (CLPP) at Hampshire College. She has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color, and helped to [...]
Also tagged Gender, immigrant women, LGBTQ issues, Politics, undocumented women Comments closed
Immigration and Women This Week: Mixed Emotions
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. In case you missed it, the news on what it was [...]
Meet Alabama’s governor: an anti-choice, equal opportunity offender
TweetEarlier today I blogged about Alabama’s new bill which places major restrictions on abortion clinics. Well, meet the man who will sign this bill into law, the charming champion of the war on women, Governor, Robert Bentley. Bentley is not only the duly sworn chief executive of his state, but a licensed physician, who like [...]
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What happens when women are “illegal”?
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. Earlier this week, the Associated Press made the decision to drop the [...]
Also tagged Class, domestic violence, domestic workers, Immigration reform, Parenting, Race, undocumented women Comments closed
New report shows immigrants are about twice as likely to be uninsured