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Selected Publications
Books
Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2005)
Articles and Symposium Contributions
In the Zone: Work at the Intersection of Trade and Migration , 23 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 147 (2022)
The International Governance of Refugee Work , 1 GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 239 (2021)
Immigration as Commerce: A New Look at the Federal Immigration Power and the Constitution , 93 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 653 (2018)
Regulating the Human Supply Chain , 102 IOWA LAW REVIEW 445 (2017)
Tensions in Rhetoric and Reality at the Intersection of Work and Immigration, Symposium on Persistent Puzzles in Immigration Law , 2 UC IRVINE LAW REVIEW 125 (2012)
People Are Not Bananas: How Immigration Differs from Trade, 104 NORTHWESTERN UNIV. LAW REVIEW 1109 (2010)
Strengthening Labor Standards Enforcement through Partnerships with Workers' Organizations (with Janice Fine) , 38 POLITICS AND SOCIETY 552 (2010)
Rethinking Work and Citizenship (with R.A. Lenhardt) , 55 UCLA LAW REVIEW 1161 (2008)
The Lawyer Is Not the Protagonist: Community Campaigns, Law, and Social Change , 95 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 2133 (2007)
Transnational Labor Citizenship , 80 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 503 (2007); excerpts reprinted in LABOR LAW IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORKPLACE (Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, et. al., 2009); GLOBAL ISSUES, LOCAL ARGUMENTS (June Johnson, ed., 2009)
Citizenship Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Immigration and Race Perspectives (with R.A.Lenhardt) , 75 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 2493 (2007)
Law, Lawyers, and Labor: The United Farm Workers' Legal Strategy in the 1960s and 1970s and the Role of Law in Union Organizing Today , 8 U. PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW 1 (2005)
We Make the Road by Walking: Immigrant Workers, the Workplace Project and the Struggle for Social Change , 30 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 407 (1995)
Book Chapters
Roles for Workers and Unions in Labor Recruitment in Mexico, in TEMPORARY LABOUR MIGRATION IN THE GLOBAL ERA: THE REGULATORY CHALLENGES (Johanna Howe and Rosemary Owens, ed.s, Hart Publishing, 2016)
Straight Talk about the Dynamics of Labor Migration, in GLOBAL MIGRATION: MYTHS AND REALITIES (Anja Weisbrock and Diego Acosta, eds., Praeger International, 2015)
Holding the Line on Workplace Standards: What Works for Immigrant Workers (and What Doesn't)?, in WHAT WORKS FOR WORKERS (Ruth Milkman and Joseph McCartin, eds., Russell Sage, 2014).
The Impact of a New Law on a Movement: The Case of the UFW and the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, in CAUSE LAWYERS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, ed.s, Stanford University Press, 2006)
Let Them Vote, in A COMMUNITY OF EQUALS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF NEW AMERICANS (Owen Fiss, et. al., eds., Beacon Press, 1999)
Policy Papers and Reports
Refugees and Decent Work (International Labor Organization of the United Nations, December 2019)
Global Labor Recruitment in a Supply Chain Context (International Labor Organization of the United Nations, June 2015)
Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Recruitment in Mexico (Solidarity Center, May 2015)
Free Movement and Equal Rights for Low-Wage Workers? What the United States Can Learn From the New EU Migration to Britain (University of California-Berkeley Law School, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, May 2011)
Towards Transnational Labor Citizenship: Restructuring Labor Migration to Reinforce Workers Rights (University of California-Berkeley Law School, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, January 2009)
Conflict and Solidarity between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers (with R.A. Lenhardt) (University of California-Berkeley Law School, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, November 2007)
Other Publications
Universal Basic Income and Immigrants: Lessons from the Pandemic , Law and Political Economy Blog, Yale Law School (February 9, 2021)
El gran ausente de las discusiones laborales—la migración [Central American Migration: The Big Hole in the Mexican Labor Debate], Nexos (April 22, 2019)
What Ethiopia Can Learn from the Jordan Compact (Op-ed), News Deeply (February 19, 2019)
Investing in Low-Wage Jobs Is the Wrong Way to Reduce Migration , Foreign Policy (January 28, 2019)
For the Refugee Compact to Talk Jobs, It Must Listen to theMigration Compact (Op-ed), News Deeply (March 5, 2018)
Subcontractor Servitude (Op-ed), New York Times (September 2, 2013)
Sweatshop Diplomacy (Op-ed), New York Times (August 25, 2011)
"Citizens of the Global Economy," New Labor Forum vol. 20 no. 1 (Winter 2011)
"Workers Without Borders" (Op-ed), New York Times (March 9, 2009)
"American Sweatshops," Boston Review (Summer 2005)