...This chapter discusses the fraud done by parents of disabled children, substance abusers, and immigrants to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Some disabled children were lured by their parents to deceive authorities in order to receive SSI benefits, some substance abusers—drug addicts...

...This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, in particular, currently make up at least one-third of the U.S. Catholic population...

...This chapter reflects on the poetry of the palate, which it says is part of our palette of personal and cultural expressions. Tasting your favorite dish and hearing your favorite poem both have aesthetic qualities that make part of the poetry of everyday life. A language of tastes from immigrants...

...-first century. For meat, the first succession occurred as factories moved from the industrial Midwest farther south. Earlier workers were mostly white—many immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe—along with African American men. In poultry, the workforce shifted from African American women...

...This chapter examines two conventional explanations for the ethnic succession involving Hispanics and African Americans in the poultry industry in the South: first, Hispanics filled vacancies and second, Hispanics supplemented the existing workforce. The assertion that recent immigrants took...

...This chapter tells the stories of back of the house workers (e.g. maids, laundry workers, porters, janitors, cooks, dishwashers) who constitute the vast majority of casino and hotel workers. Nearly always female and, in Nevada, predominantly immigrant and Latina, these women serve as the base...

...This chapter examines women's active participation in income-producing labor, whether on or off the farm, as a fundamental feature of farming families in the Nanticoke Valley who combined farming with wage-earning. Most of the immigrants who bought farms in the Nanticoke Valley kept some family...

...This chapter traces the process of national policy change for foreign residents and immigrants in Japan over the past twenty years, highlighting the ways in which advocacy by local governments and civil society groups has been effective in raising issues with national policymakers. Three distinct...

... as tourist guides in Helsinki; the second is digital storytelling by refugees and immigrants in Western Sydney; and the third is collaborative creativity in storytelling about urban sustainability among Greek university students. These cases show that digital storytelling can be employed with ease...

...This concluding chapter offers several lessons learned from assessing the political field of immigrant worker rights in San Jose and Houston. It addresses the question of whether workers are better served by a strong formal bureaucracy in San Jose or by a diffuse set of alternatives in Houston...

...This chapter examines the spiral effect of policy failure relating to border controls. Comparable to events before 2001, when enhanced border controls increased the number of illegal immigrants and boosted the development of smuggling networks, there is strong evidence that post-9/11 policies have...

...This chapter also takes up immigrant integration in the context of a strong political machine, persistent black-white cleavages, and intense neighborhood identification and competition in Chicago. These factors created an opening for white Democratic mayors to include Latino immigrants...

...This chapter explores nonprofits' strategic issue framing to enact the Municipal ID Ordinance that allows San Francisco to issue identification cards to undocumented immigrants. In the face of increased federal immigration enforcement and growing media scrutiny of San Francisco's welcoming...

...Chapter Three, Chicago, centers around Beatriz, a Mexican immigrant woman with diabetes. This narrative reveals the "VIDDA Syndemic" that compounds impacts of structural violence, immigration, depression, diabetes, and abuse over the life course to shape women's suffering. For instance, multiple...

... the identity of the minority group and can become a source of tension, particularly during politically charged periods. Hebrew constitutes the hegemonic common ground for members of minority ethnonational groups, and both Palestinian Arabs and Russian immigrants typically have a good command of Hebrew...

...This chapter maps the diverse patterns of immigrants' labor market participation and career mobility. Several characteristics stand out. First, immigrants in Japan occupy diverse roles in the Japanese economy. They provide low-wage casual or disposable labor in the secondary labor market as well...

...This chapter explores how cultural backgrounds, migration experiences, socioeconomic circumstances, and social relationships as well as master narratives of nationhood and concepts of personhood affect immigrants' conception of home and belonging, perceived relationships with Japan, and future...

...This chapter discusses how developments during the preceding thirty years, culminating in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, set the stage for future immigrant-related labor strife. During those years, American industrialization began in earnest, engendering a host of socioeconomic changes...

...This chapter investigates the Haymarket Square rally in 1886, which solidified the presumed connection between aliens and undesirable worker radicalism. Reaction to the Molly Maguires and the Great Railroad Strike had established the practice of blaming immigrants and associated foreign ideologies...

...This chapter addresses how the onset of World War I raised questions about if and how the United States should prepare itself for a military confrontation with a “foreign” enemy, and gave added implications to any talk of armed class conflict, especially if it involved immigrant workers. Americans...