Referrals, Links and
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COLLABORATIVE AND ADVOCACY
ORGANIZATIONS |
Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society |
The oldest international
migration and refugee resettlement agency in the U.S., HIAS has played a
major role in the rescue and relocation refuguees for over 100 years. As
the migration arm of the organized American Jewish community, HIAS also
advocates on behalf of refugees and migrants on the international,
national and community level. |
American Immigration Law
Foundation |
AILF, established to
promote public understanding of immigration law and policy through
education, policy analysis, and support to litigators. |
National Immigration
Forum |
National Immigration
Forum is committed to embrace and uphold America's tradition as a
nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates and builds public support for
public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and that are fair and
supportive to newcomers in our country. |
National
Council of La Raza |
Private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty
and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic
Americans. |
American
Bar Association |
Referal and information
for the public; membership services. |
American
Immigration Lawyers Association |
National bar association
of over 6,000 attorneys who practice and teach immigration law. AILA
Member attorneys represent tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and
industries, foreign students, entertainers, athletes, and asylum seekers,
often on a pro bono basis. AILA is an Affiliated Organization of the
American Bar Association. |
National Immigration Law
Center |
National support center
whose mission is to protect and promote the rights of low income
immigrants and their family members. NILC staff specialize in
immigration law, and the employment and public benefits rights of
immigrants. The Center conducts policy analysis and impact
litigation and provides publications, technical advice, and trainings to a
broad constituency of legal aid agencies, community groups, and pro bono
attorneys. NILC maintains offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, and
Washington, D.C., and operates the Sacramento policy office for the
California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative. |
Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service |
National agency set up
by Lutheran churches in the United States to carry out the churches'
ministry with uprooted people. Since 1939, LIRS has brought newcomers and
their neighbors together so they can enrich each other's growth as world
citizens. |
Immigration and Refugee Services of
America |
The Immigration and
Refugee Services of America defends human rights, builds communities,
fosters education, promotes self-sufficiency, and forges partnerships
through a broad array of service and advocacy programs. You can help
support this work by joining our email alert network. We will keep you
informed about our latest work. |
National Lawyers
Guild |
An association dedicated
to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and
economic system.
NLG seeks to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers
and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as
an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to
the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property
interests.
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American Civil Liberties
Union, Immigrants' Rights Project |
Provides access to ACLU
materials relating to immigration, including "Briefing Papers" and
position statements. Link to an archive of materials presented to
Congress via correspondence or in-person testimony. |
Asian & Pacific
Islander American Health Forum |
View current and past
issues of APIAHF's Policy Updates. Contains background information
for the group's projects, including the API Health Information Network,
and Asian and Pacific Islanders' California Action Network. |
Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities |
Well organized site that
contains an extensive selection of CBPP reports drawn from all the areas
of their expertise in policy issues affecting low- and moderate income
persons. Most documents are downloadable in their entirety as either
web files (HTML) or portable document format files
(PDF). |
Center for Law and Social Policy |
Download the past two
issues of CLASP Update (reports on welfare reform
developments). Extensive Publications Library contains complete text
of CLASP reports on TANF, Child Care and Support, Legal Services for the
Poor, and other topics. |
Children's Defense
Fund |
Contains links to CDF
reports and analyses of issues relating to the impact of poverty on
children. |
Food
Research Action Center |
View FRAC's descriptions
of federal food programs (Food Stamps, WIC, School Breakfast Program,
National School Lunch Program). Contains statistical profiles
regarding hunger, poverty, and unemployment rate data for all 50
states. |
Electronic
Policy Network |
Contains links to over
50 national research and advocacy groups that comprise the Network's
members and affiliates. |
National Asian Pacific
American Legal Consortium |
Learn about the work of
the only national legal advocacy organization that works to protect and
advance the civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans. |
National
Center for Youth Law |
Download selected NCYL
analyses and reports examining health, child welfare, public benefits, and
other issues in PDF format. |
National
Clearinghouse for Legal Services |
Visitors can register
for access to the Clearinghouse's Poverty Law Library, which contains over
500,000 case documents from over 50,000 cases filed by poverty law
advocates for over 25 years. View selected articles from recent
Clearinghouse Review issues. Join the Clearinghouse's
on-line discussion forums covering topics such as "Teens and TANF,"
"Poverty Law," "Technology and Legal Research" and
more. |
National
Council of La Raza |
The official web site of
the nation's largest constituency-based Hispanic organization that works
to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for
all Hispanic Americans. Contains capsule descriptions of major
policy issues affecting Hispanics and NCLR's position on
them. |
National
Health Law Program |
Download NHeLP analyses
examining the Balanced Budget Act, Medicaid, Immigration, Managed Care,
and State & Local Health Care. Contains extensive
California-specific links to resources useful to health care
advocates. |
National
Immigration Forum |
Contains NIF's analyses
of current issues in immigration as well as "Immigration Facts," a series
of short papers featuring useful statistical and historical information
relating to topics such as "The A,B,Cs of U.S. Immigration," "Immigration
Chronology," "Facts on Immigrants and Public Benefits," and
more. |
National Lawyers Guild,
National Immigration Project |
Features a "Brief Bank
Index," a collection of capsule descriptions of immigration law cases
currently indexed by case name, with a subject index soon to follow.
The complete text of these briefs can be ordered from NIP. |
National
Legal Aid and Defender Association |
Contains useful
information for NLADA members, including NLADA's training calendar, access
to Civil Brief (NLADA's electronic newsletter), and an extensive
collection of materials examining Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation,
the Supreme Court case regarding the use of IOLTA funds. |
National Network for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights |
Offers extensive
coverage of issues relating to INS raids and the militarization of the
border. Download the past five issues of the INS Raids Bulletin,
NNIRR's bi-monthly newsletter covering INS actions throughout the
nation. Also available in Spanish. |
National
Senior Citizens Law Center |
Download selected
articles and other materials addressing substantive areas on which NSCLC
works, including Social Security/SSI, Medicaid, Balanced Budget Act of
1997, and others. |
Urban
Institute |
Offers a generous
selection of Policy Briefs and Occasional Reports for downloading.
Visitors can also view the products of UI's "Assessing the New Federalism"
project, including its on-line database of statistics detailing
information on the fifty states and District of Columbia, in areas such as
income security, health, child well-being, and social
services. |
Welfare
Law Center |
Contains updates of
welfare-related litigation currently being pursued in the nation's courts
by both WLC and other organizations. Download WLC's useful and much
lauded report, "Welfare Myths: Fact or Fiction?" |
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California
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California
Budget Project |
The CBP provides
non-partisan analyses of state tax and budget policies affecting low- and
middle income Californians, the impact of welfare reform at the state and
local levels, and implications of federal policy decisions on
California. Site contains an extensive selection of CBP Budget
Briefs published in the last three years, and Budget Watch, CBP's
bi-monthly newsletter. |
California
Center for Health Improvement |
The CCHI is a nonprofit
health policy research institute that focuses on prevention-oriented
methods to improve public health. Site features "Policy PROFILES," a
searchable database of policy ideas organized by health care, education,
economic vitality, safety, and environment. |
California
Rural Legal Assistance Foundation |
Contains compendium of
media pieces regarding guest workers as well as links to state and federal
appellate court decisions. |
Children
Now |
Combining policy
analysis with effective outreach strategies, Children Now works to
generate positive change on behalf of all children, particularly those who
are poor or at risk. Visitors can sign up to receive Internet
Update, the group's free monthly newsletter transmitted via
e-mail. |
Legal
Services of Northern California |
Features a comprehensive
index of legal research materials available on the web, including both
California and federal statutes, regulations, and case law. An
excellent resource for poverty law advocates. |
Public
Interest Clearinghouse |
Contains a library of
resource materials prepared by poverty law agencies throughout California,
organized by topics like "Immigration Law," "SSI Terminations,"
"Homelessness and Housing," "Welfare Reform," and more. Also
features an on-line directory of California legal services
programs. |
The Northern California Citizenship Project |
works to increase immigrant
civic and political activism to expand democracy and advance social justice.
The NCCP's core strategy is to build and sustain the capacity of community
organizations and other groups to engage and empower their immigrant
constituents. Since 1997, the NCCP has facilitated training, technical
assistance, networking and funding opportunities for over 100 organizations
in Northern California.
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Referral Sites
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Pro Bono.net |
The mission of probono.net is two-fold: first, to use information technology to increase the amount and quality of legal services provided to low-income individuals and communities by the public interest/pro bono lawyers. Second, create a virtual community of public interest lawyers that bridges private, legal services, and academic sectors of the profession and that serves as a model for similar networks in other legal communities.
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American
Bar Association |
Referral and information
for the public; membership services. |
American
Immigration Law Foundation |
AILF, established to
promote public understanding of immigration law and policy through
education, policy analysis, and support to litigators. |
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Additional Immigration Sites |
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Law
Offices of Norton Tooby |
Web site offers a wealth
of information concerning the Immigration consequences of criminal
convictions, Post-conviction relief, and Criminal defense of
noncitizens. |
Census
Bureau |
http://www.census.gov/population/www |
Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) |
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Immigration Home
Page |
http://www.lawcom.com/immigration |
Migration
News |
http://128.120.36.171 |
National Clearinghouse
of Guest Worker Legislation |
http://www.crlaf.org/gworkers.htm |
National Immigration
Forum |
http://www.immigrationforum.org |
National Network for
Immigrant & Refugee Rights |
http://www.nnirr.org/nnirr/index.html |
Siskind's Immigration
Bulletin |
http://www.visalaw.com |
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Legal Sites |
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Internet Law
Library |
http://law.house.gov/104.htm |
U.S. Department of
Agriculture |
http://www.usda.gov |
U.S. Department of
Labor |
http://www.dol.gov |
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Farmworker Health Sites |
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Migrant Clinicians
Network |
http://192.195.85.74/mcn/welcome.html |
National Center for Farm
Worker Health |
http://www.ncfh.org/index.html |
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Farm Labor Sites |
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AFL-CIO |
http://www.aflcio.org |
Farm Labor Organizing
Committee |
http://www.iupui.edu/it/floc/home.html |
Labor Net |
http://www.igc.org/igc/labornet/index.html |
Pineros y Campesinos
Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers
United) |
http://www.pcun.org |
United Farm
Workers |
http://www.ufw.org |
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Migrant
Education |
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CAMP Pennsylvania State
University |
http://blue.ue.psu.edu/psu/ue/aap/camp/camp_home/camp_home.html |
CAMP Oregon State
University |
http://www.orst.edu/vc/unires/hotpro/camp2.htm |
Educational Resource
Information Center (ERIC) |
http://www.aspensys.com/eric/ |
ERIC Clearinghouse on
Rural Education and Small Schoolshttp: |
http://www.ael.org/eric/ |
ERIC Clearinghouse on
Teaching and Teacher Education |
http://www.ericsp.org |
Office of Migrant
Education |
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/MEP/ |
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Resources and Advocacy Sites |
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Association of
Farmworker Opportunity Programs |
http://www.afop.org |
Catholic Migrant
Farmworker Network |
http://www.cmfn.org |
Chicano
Net |
http://www.pbs.org/chicano |
Episcopal Hispanic
Farmworkers Ministries of North Carolina |
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thoyt/ |
National Farm Worker
Ministry |
http://www.la-paz.org/nfwmhome.html |
