Even when Congress and federal agencies have sought to impose substantial labor law requirements on employers of guestworkers, the protections have often been meaningless because the workers are unable to enforce the law or are unwilling to attempt to enforce the law for fear of retaliation. For more information on the H-2 guestworker programs, please go to our Resource Center.
The Bracero Program became the largest guest worker program in US history, employing more than four million Mexican workers over its year history. It is informed by critical class, race, and anti-colonial scholarship and uses empirical qualitative and quantitative , comparative, and historical methods. Her research examines how power and privilege is produced in legal doctrines and systems and also how macro-level transnational phenomena geopolitics, world economy, migration, neocolonialism impact material realities at the community level; and importantly, how community-level acts of resistance can help to reimagine novel legal and political formations.
Professor Venkatesh has a PhD from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at University of Berkeley, where her dissertation used a comparative socio-legal approach to theorize how law is made and used by migrant workers and their advocates in several countries. She has written articles on migrant and racial justice movements, labour migration, gender violence and global law reform, coloniality of power and the Global South including on citizenship laws in South Asia and the Dalit Radical Tradition and legal epistemologies "from below".
The coalition argues that employers in the U. Some opponents argue that guest-worker programs only encourage illegal immigration. Other opponents argue guest-worker programs, like the H-2B visa program, exploit workers—both Americans and the undocumented.
Both political parties are poised to debate an expansion of the H-2B visa program. That debate will occur somewhat between the two parties, but perhaps even more within the two parties. As immigration issues loom large in the election of Donald Trump as president, the guest-worker issue will likely be subject to continued debate. Teachers, get a lesson plan for the above Current Issue. Constitutional Rights Foundation is not a legal advocacy organization and does not provide legal advice.
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Educating About Immigration. Legalization for undocumented immigrants was de-emphasized. This hearing comes at a time when the far right is pushing for repressive measures, like HR , approved by the House in December. Bush and big business want a large new guest worker program. Some of the forces fighting for legalization support the McCain-Kennedy bill S and HR which, while providing legalization, includes a guest worker program. Most see this as a necessary evil to get Republican votes for a package including legalization.
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