This section includes information on restrictionist groups and anti-immigrant activities. It also contains information about discrimination and hate crimes targeting immigrant communities.
The author provides insight on the immigrants who have been detained in the post-9/11 era, and the harsh realities they face. A look at where philanthropy has made a difference and where opportunities for funding remain are also detailed.
After 9/11, 50 restrictive proposals were introduced in several states to deter immigrants from obtaining or keeping their driver's licenses. Proposals included the prohibition of licenses for the undocumented and new conditions on acceptable documents for proving identity. The impacts on immigrants and efforts to combat the new restrictions are explored here.
Microsoft, among other corporations, supports pro-bono legal services for immigrants who are detained and face deportation without access to legal counsel.
Forty years after the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which sought to rectify the nation's history of racism and discrimination in immigration policy, the restorative nature of the act and its civil-rights base are threatened by a growing anti-immigrant movement and the mounting stack of proposed anti-immigrant legislation.
An estimated 1,200 unaccompanied immigrant minors are in custody at any given time in the United States, with the vast majority of them between the age of 12 and 17, though 10 percent are not even 12 years of age. In this article, Bob Glaves explains their access to legal support, explores the policies affecting them, and outlines the role that funders can play.
Title VI was enacted as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.
"True opportunity requires that we all have equal access to the benefits, burdens, and responsibilities of our society regardless of race, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, or other aspects of what we look like or where we come from. Ensuring equal opportunity means not only ending overt and intentional discrimination, but also rooting out subconscious bias and reforming systems that unintentionally perpetuate exclusion. It requires proactive efforts to remake our institutions in ways that ensure fairness and inclusion."
Finds that after five decades of progress in building a middle class, creating a safety net, and erecting legal protections against official segregation and overt exclusion of marginalized groups, opportunity in the United States is at risk. Clear charts and data measure progress along six interrelated dimensions: mobility, equality, participation in democracy, redemption/ rehabilitation, community, and security.
This book examines how the dramatic increase in economic inequality since the 1970s may have stalled or reversed gains toward the U.S. ideal of participatory, responsive democracy. Scholars marshal evidence that economic inequality has diminished the voice of middle and working classes in politics, and reduced support for inclusive public policies, like the G.I. Bill and Social Security, that opened opportunities in the middle of the twentieth century.
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