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Articles by Karen Yi
By Karen Yi From the April 2010 issue | Posted in Local With Wall Street profits once again soaring while unemployment hovers around 10 percent, two different coalitions of labor unionists and immigrant rights groups will take to the streets of New York on May Day. read more »
By Karen Yi
From the January 2010 issue | Posted in Immigration, National Miami-Dade Community College student Felipe Matos has a new schedule this spring semester. Each day starts with a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call, a big breakfast, a quick stretch and securing his feet with a thick layer of duct tape. Then Matos sets off for a 17-mile walk interspersed by several breaks of singing songs, and later stops to sleep in a different place every night — RVs, churches or even strangers’ homes. read more »
By Karen Yi
From the December 1969 issue | Posted in IndyBlog, Not an Article Gearing up for his final deportation hearing, Jamaican immigrant Roxroy Salmon together with Families for Freedom sponsored an event on May 5, to talk about immigration politics — with a mouthful of popcorn.
Families for Freedom, a New York City based organization fighting against the deportation and subsequent separation of families, hosted the event “Politics and [...] read more »
By Karen Yi
From the December 1969 issue | Posted in IndyBlog, Not an Article An unprecedented nomination by President Barack Obama has opened the gates for not only a woman, but a Nuyorican Latina to serve as the 111th Supreme Court Justice. As a daughter of Puerto Rican parents, Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s story from rags to riches and possibly to the highest court of the nation, has sparked pride [...] read more »
By Karen Yi
From the December 1969 issue | Posted in IndyBlog, Not an Article By Karen Yi
The Indypendent tracked down Rinku Sen, author of The Accidental American (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008), to talk about her latest book and the current immigration debate within the Barack Obama administration.
Karen Yi: Since the book was published before the inauguration of President Obama, have you seen a shift in the immigration debate with the new administration? What are [...] read more »
By Karen Yi
From the March 2009 issue | Posted in Local The first workplace raid since the Obama administration took office signalled a break with candidate Barack Obama’s promises of comprehensive immigration reform and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s repeated remarks that immigration enforcement would focus on employers, not immigrant workers. read more »
By Karen Yi From the March 2009 issue | Posted in Books, Culture, Reviews Weaving in the history of neoliberal policies in third world countries, Sen and Mamdouh underscore the global movements that force people to migrate, defying the argument that immigration can be “fixed” by sheer enforcement. read more »
By Karen Yi
From the December 1969 issue | Posted in IndyBlog, John Tarleton, Not an Article
Atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, employees from every nationality graced the tables of the Windows on the World restaurant serving exquisite wines and delicacies while speaking in their native tongues for the benefit of tourists that came to dine at one of the city’s must-see attractions. But after the 9/11 attacks, the [...] read more »
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