Vol. 35, No. 3

A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order

Migrant Labor and Contested Public Space

Vol. 35, No. 4 (2008-09)

This issue of Social Justice examines the impact of immigrant labor, particularly from Mexico, at the local level. It remains a polarizing issue that the Obama administration may not address during his first term, disappointing Latino leaders and immigration advocates. Meanwhile, lacking a pathway to citizenship and union protections, immigrant laborers remain subject to harassment from hostile private citizens and law enforcement.

ISSN: 1043-1578. Published quarterly by Social Justice, P.O. Box 40601, San Francisco, CA 94140. SocialJust@aol.com.

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Issue Editors: Gregory Shank and Adalberto Aguirre

Editors: Overview: Migrant Labor and Contested Public Space

Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.: Immigration on the Public Mind: Immigration Reform in the Obama Administration

Tanya Basok: The Intersections of the Economic and Cultural in the U.S. Labor’s Pro-Migrant Politics

Loren K. Redwood: Strong-Arming Exploitable Labor: The State and Immigrant Workers in the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast

Carol Cleaveland and Laura Kelly: Shared Social Space and Strategies to Find Work: An Exploratory Study of Mexican Day Laborers in Freehold, N.J.

Gregory Maney and Margaret Abraham: Whose Backyard? Boundary Making in NIMBY Opposition to Immigrant Services

John Horton, Linda Shaw, and Manuel H. Moreno: Sanctions as Everyday Resistance to Welfare Reform

Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Jennifer K. Simmers: Mexican Border Crossers: The Mexican Body in Immigration Discourse

Shabnam Koirala-Azad: The South Asian Immigrant Community