Immigration

April 10, 2008 - We here at the Institute for Southern Studies are among the co-sponsors of a discussion series on immigration taking place in Chapel Hill, N.C. This Sunday brings the series' second session, focusing on economics and immigration.

March 14, 2008 - More than 100 guest workers carrying signs that said "I Am a Man" and "Dignity" walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard last week to protest conditions they liken to slavery.

February 20, 2008 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's long-sitting head of state, has stepped down. But despite new calls to end the punitive U.S. embargo against the country -- which nearly every U.N. member nation condemns -- U.S.

July 6, 2007 - Here at Facing South, we have closely followed the rapidly changing demographics of the South.

June 29, 2007 - For the over 10,000 people across the country who have come to the U.S. Social Forum now underway in Atlanta -- the largest U.S. gathering of social change activists in decades -- the event is a chance to build community, share ideas, to feel like they are part of a larger movement.

May 29, 2007 - The Senate is set to resume debate this week on a new "compromise" immigration bill (S.1348). This is a complicated bill and it's hard to find objective info.

April 23, 2007 - With Congress and the White House deadlocked on immigration, state legislatures have filled the void with a flurry of bills, making it one of the hottest state issues in 2007.