Asian and Asian American Laborers in the U.S.: Citizenship, Immigrant Rights and the Welfare…

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Covers early comparative racial labor history, U.S. immigration policies, employment laws and welfare reforms that have shaped the experiences of Asian/Asian American low wage workers and their families by perpetuating economic systems of inequality and reproducing racial and gendered stereotypes. Calls into question the ubiquitous cultural myth of the model minority and focuses on community organizing for labor rights and unionization. Recommended: T SOC 165 or T SOC 270.