Apologies to those not in the area but everyone is welcome to this
seminar by a leading labour activist and scholar from the US who is
going to be in London during February.
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
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Transnational Labour Citizenship: Restructuring Labour Migration to
Reinforce Workers Rights
Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University in New York City
Wednesday 17 February 2010, 1-2pm, Seminar Room
The City Centre: Researching city lives and connections
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London
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Jennifer Gordon teaches in the fields of Immigration Law and Labour Law.
Her recent articles have addressed the topics of low-wage labour
migration, the intersection of race and immigration, and the role of law
in struggles for social justice. Her book, Suburban Sweatshops: The
Fight for Immigrant Rights, was published in 2005 by Harvard University
Press.
Prior to joining the Fordham faculty, in 1992 Gordon founded the
Workplace Project in New York, a nationally recognized grassroots
workers centre that organises low-wage Latino immigrants to fight for
just treatment on the job. After leaving the Workplace Project in 1998,
she was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School. Gordon was
chosen in 1995 as one of National Law Journal's forty leading lawyers
under the age of 40 in the United States. In 1998, she was named
“Outstanding Public Interest Advocate of the Year” by the National
Association for Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works). She was
awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1999.
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Prof. Jane Wills
Department of Geography and The City Centre
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS
UK
0207 882 2752
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For research on global cities and the role of migrants in low paid work
see http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/globalcities/
For research on the London living wage campaign see
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/livingwage/
For information about The City Centre: researching city lives and
connections
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/citycentre/
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