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- Title
CHANGING TACTICS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE U.S. IMMIGRANT WORKER RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
- Authors
Lyon, Beth
- Abstract
The American immigrant worker rights movement often shares overlapping missions with other US anti-poverty struggles. The fact that the immigrants' rights movement is international, however, sets it apart from these struggles. It allows the immigrants' rights movement to utilize international strategies beneficial to its domestic work, and to claim an important ally in the Mexican government, an outspoken advocate for this community. This article highlights the international strategies the immigrant worker movement is utilizing, strategies that include (1) "broadcasting" domestic violations to international entities, (2) international law formation, and (3) importing international standards into domestic advocacy. It concludes by discussing the benefits these strategies can bestow upon the immigrant workers' movement. These benefits are substantial; they can be a useful tool for grassroots mobilization, persuade courts to adopt interpretations favoring unauthorized workers, and lead immigrants' rights workers to more success setting up a "rights tone" in the immigration debate than they have up until now.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOREIGN workers; EMPLOYEE rights; LABOR movement; INTERNATIONAL law; GRASSROOTS movements
- Publication
UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 1, p161
- ISSN
1089-2605
- Publication type
Article