No Borders and Binaries

Fox News would like you to think so as would The Examiner and countless other anti-migrant sites that we won’t bother mentioning here.
Alas, a new study by the Public Policy Institute of California proclaims,
Medi-Cal patients are more likely than uninsured or privately insured Californians to visit hospital emergency departments for conditions that could be treated [...]

The Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space Research Network invites you to:

Ontology, Space & Radical Politics, 4-5 August 2008

August 4th: Radical Politics Today, Community Forum
Long Beach Public Library, 101 Pacific Avenue, Civic Center Plaza, Long
Beach, 90822, 6-8pm

Panelists: Gilda Haas | Strategic Action for a Just Economy, Los [...]

In the study, researchers examined information on more than 13,000 New Yorkers from all five of the city’s boroughs, who voluntarily had their height and weight measured. The data, collected at community-based health centers and hospitals between January 2000 and December 2002, was used to calculate each person’s BMI.
For Hispanics, whether the neighborhood is largely [...]

Kyle asked via email whether there are any studies which show that undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than American citizens. The one study we should be familiar with is the one from IPC last year, which is here. This was the summary of their research:

At the same time that immigration—especially undocumented immigration—has reached or surpassed [...]

It appears that most things don’t happen in a STRAIGHT line (neither do brain waves and heart beats FYI).
After my constant repetition of “undocumented or illegal is not a permanent immutable characteristic” this past week, the Public Policy Institute of California has just confirmed the accuracy of the statement.
In a new study based on a [...]

After finishing a review for a journal, I am still in an academic mode. I thought I would share my thought processes here. These are mere guidelines I use when researching, writing or trying to understand all sorts of phenomenon.  I suppose it is an insight into how my brain works

Don’t make claims without warrants.
NEVER [...]

It’s about time I went to L/N Academic looking for law reviews on the DREAM Act. Most of them were pro-DREAM, obviously, like I mentioned previously, academics are more likely to be benevolent and understanding towards DREAM.
You can find these on your library Lexis-Nexis database.

Winter, 2008, 61 SMU L. Rev. 99, 14475 words, ARTICLE: Lawmakers [...]

Someone at BNF felt compelled to tell me that the birth of illegal immigration was the coming of Europeans to the Americas. The comment is theoretically accurate but misses the point of the argument. By the ‘birth of illegal immigration,’ I am referring to the social and political construction of a certain type of immigration [...]

May 6, 1882 is the date for the birth of ‘illegal immigration.’ Like most social concerns that are only deemed as a ‘problem’ when it benefits the state, the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States, the so-called ‘yellow peril’ and ‘Asian invasion’ now required ‘documentation.’ The Chinese were constructed as unassimilable peoples, not [...]

I have been itching to write something but seriously, nowadays whatever I want to say just sounds repetitive in my head or my mind is so cluttered that I want to write about a million different things that are loosely connected to one another (I hope).
Anyway, I found this article in the Times of India. [...]