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The New Latino Immigration to Tennessee:
Opportunities and Challenges


March 31 - April 1, 2006


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Videos in Law Library Collection

Go back to Mexico!
Produced by Galan Productions, Inc. for Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation; distributed by] PBS Video, c1994.
Notes: Videocassette - 57 min. Series: Frontline (Television program) Producer and director, Hector Galan; Correspondent, William Langewiesche. Originally broadcast June 7, 1994.
Summary: The story of one woman's attempt illegally to immigrate from Mexico to the United States amidst the background of growing public opposition to illegal immigration, particularly in California.


So goes a nation: lawyers and communities
Director, Jacob Bender; producer, director of photography, Jim Simmons; executive producer, Joan Vermeulen; produced at Sight Effects, Inc.; New York, N.Y.: Fordham University School of Law: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, c1997.
Notes: Videocassette - 30 min.
Summary: Examines three examples of legal assistance to low-income communities in the New York area. The Brownsville Family Health Care Center was established in a poor area of Brooklyn after Paul J. Acinapura, of Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, found a way to fund it. Eddie Bautista and Sam Sue, of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, provided assistance to various communities in Brooklyn to stop the building of environmentally hazardous projects in poor neighborhoods, based on the "fair share" provision of the New York City charter. In Hempstead, Long Island, Jennifer Gordon, founder and executive director of the Workplace Project, and Omar Hendriquez, a labor organizer, helped immigrant workers and got labor laws enforced.


"Stories of Immigrant Survivors of Abuse: Remedies Under the Violence Against Women Act" = "Las Historias de Inmigrantes Sobrevivientes de Abuso Domestico: Proteccion Bajo la Ley en Contra de la Violencia de las Mujeres."
Published by the Political Asylum Project of Austin.
Located in the Law Librayr's Reserve/AV collection
Call number: KF4758.P6S72001


Los trabajadores = The workers
Produced, directed, edited by Heather Courtney. Distributed by Heather Courtney, c2001.
Notes: Videocassette - 48 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner SXSW 2001 Film Festival Audience Award. Winner Great Plains Film Festival Humanities Award.
Summary: Los trabajadores/The workers tells the story of immigrant day laborers, placing their struggles and contributions in the context of the economic development of Austin, Texas. Through the stories of two men, Ramon and Juan, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, the film examines the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical history of both dependence on and abuse of immigrant labor.
The trial of Sacco & Vanzetti
Producer/writer, Mary Dore; produced by Cinetel Productions in association with Courtroom Television Network. New York : Courtroom Television Network, c1998.
Notes: Videocassette - 47 min. Series: Greatest trials of all time
SummaryExamines the Sacco-Vanzetti case involving two Italian immigrants who were arrested in 1920 for robbery and murder. Politics and anti-immigrant prejudice denied them a fair trial, leading to protests across the country.
Well-founded fear
Produced and directed by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. [New York, N.Y.] : Epidavros Project, c2000.
Notes: Videocassette - 119 min. In English with parts spoken in various foreign languages with English subtitles.
Summary: Illustrates the process of seeking asylum in the United States. Presents the side of the asylum seeker, who gets one hour to discuss his or her case, as well as the side of the asylum officer, who gets assigned cases at random, and has an additional 90 minutes after the interview to research and compose the decision to grant asylum or deport the person.


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