Online Resources on the Anti-Immigrant Movement
General
Pulling Up the Ladder: The Anti-Immigrant Backlash, by Doug Brugge
Immigrant Rights: Striving for Racial Justice, Economic Equality and Human Dignity, by Camellia Phillips for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Corporate Desires vs. Anti-Immigrant Fervor: the Bush Administration's Dilemma, by Jean Hardisty
Nationalism, by Nikhil Aziz and Chip Berlet
Nativism, by Chip Berlet, Mitra Rastegar, and Pam Chamberlain
Eye on the Border: CBS Distorts Picture of Mexican Immigrants, by Melanie Lown
Right-Wing Politics and the Anti-Immigration Cause (excerpts), by Sara Diamond
"Blood on the Border" and resources on the anti-immigrant movement by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Spring 2001, Issue 101
"White Nationalism and Immigration Today," by Loretta J. Ross, Network News
Background Brief on Anti-Immigrant Speakers at the Sachem Quality of Life Conference by the Center for New Community
Background Brief on Anti-Immigrant Group Voice of Citizens Together / American Patrol by the Center for New Community
"Buchanan's Apocalypse Now: Western civilization and Christianity on eve of destruction, says Pat’s new book," by Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange, January 9, 2002
"Apocalypse Again: White Supremacist Numbers Game," by Martin A. Lee
Responding to Right Wing Frames on Immigration
Immigration and Cultural Diversity
Immigration as a Criminal Issue
Immigrants as a Threat to U.S. Workers
Immigration, Health and Welfare
Immigrants and the Environment
Repercussions of September 11th
Repercussions of September 11, 2001
"Far-Right Recruiting Drive: A range of racist and anti-immigrant groups are trying to turn the Sept. 11 terror attacks into a marketing tool." by Yigal Schleifer, Mother Jones, Nov. 26, 2001
"A War on Immigrants to Fight the War of Terrorism? Lessons from the Failed War on Drugs," by Nathan Newman
9-11peace.org, which advocates for non-military responses to terrorism, released a bulletin looking at how the attacks have been used to justify anti-immigrant policies.
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights has compiled resources for post-September 11 organizing.
9/11 Repercussions, links to resources and analysis. See especially Attacks on People Perceived to be Arab or Muslim and Erosion of Civil Liberties.PRA's Fall 2001 issue of The Public Eye examined the roles of nationalism and nativism in the post-9/11 backlash that had severe repercussions for immigrants, people of color and political dissidents, among others. To download the PDF version click here. Modified versions of these articles also appeared in Defending Immigrant Rights.
Wooing the Environmental Movement
"The Greening of the Anti-Immigrant Agenda," by Cathi Tactaquin, Network News
"Dangerous Intersections and Exposing the ‘Greening of Hate’ or Anti-Immigrant Environmentalism" by Committee on Women, Population and the Environment
"The Greening of Hate Continues" by Syd Linsley, click here and download the PDF format of issue no. 8 of Political Environment
"Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women," by Syd Linsley, DifferenTakes, no. 6
On the Border
Border Watchers: Catching Anti-Immigrant Vigilantes on Film, reviews by Tarso Luís Ramos
Do It Yourself Border Cops, by Devin Burghart
Far From Fringe: Minutemen Mobilizes Whites Left Behind by Globalization, by Roberto Lovato
"Arizona Border: Immigration Tensions Bring Out the Worst and the Best in Human Nature" by Jose Palafox, borderlines UPDATER
Referenda
"Proposition
187 Lessons," by Jan Adams, Z Magazine, March 1995
Anti-Bilingual Education/English Only
James Crawford's Language
Policy Web Site & Emporium,
especially Anatomy of the English-Only Movement
Rethinking Schools issue on bilingual education
What's
Eating Ron Unz and Defending
Public Education
Other Articles of Interest
Globalization and Migration
Network News the quarterly newsletter of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights has many good articles including, "Redefining Migration in the 21st Century" by Patrick Taran
"Mexico’s US Problem," by Bob Filner, The Nation
Justice for Immigrants
"A Fair and Just Amnesty," by Julie Quiroz-Martinez, The Nation
"Race Across Borders -- Immigrant Movements," ColorLines, Summer 2001 issue
In the Media
Resources from Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting
Activist Resource Kits:
- ARK Main Page
- Defending Democracy
- Defending Immigrant Rights
- Defending Public Education
- Defending Reproductive Rights
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