No Borders and Binaries

This one should outrage every American taxpayer.
She served jail time for a conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. She had a detainer placed on her by ICE, so after she was done serving this time, ICE came to the jail and took her to Fairfax, VA to fill out paper-work on September 18, 2008.  She insisted [...]

Here is another list put together through the help of Equality California that ranked these legislators on 5 LGBT legislations this past year. All of the following voted against 4 or all 5 bills. Now these legislative bills were not sweeping LGBT reforms.
Bottomline - Forget marriage equality. These (pre-dominantly old white men) bigots support discrimination [...]

This personal blog has approached one year of existence on the Internet. Whereas I had never really expected to get half the number of blog readers and I haven’t kept up on blogging (or writing) this month due to various reasons (out of town, illness, over-worked), I remain committed to getting back in gear in [...]

I’ll be attending as a member of URPE, the AEA conference in San Francisco from Jan 2 to Jan 5. The following panels are the ones that I am particularly interested in attending:
Jan. 3, 8:00 am
AEA
International Migration and Remittances: Innovations in Survey and Experimental Work (O1)
Presiding: DEAN YANG, University of Michigan
DEAN KARLAN, Yale University, and [...]

Throwing some love towards my Canadian readers (I wish to be in Canada one day, maybe for a doctoral program in political economy).
I don’t know much about migration in Canada but I know that it has a better, more efficient and streamlined process for immigration. 18 months, no lawyers needed compared to the $5000-$10000 legal [...]