Introduction: The Subordination and Anti-Subordination Story of the U.S. Immigrant Experience in the 21st Century

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The five essays that comprise the immigration cluster for LatCrit XI focus on the living conditions of the immigrant student, mother and grandmother, undocumented worker and taxpayer, and the human trafficking victim, as well as on the laws and practices that regulate the lives of such people inside the United States.The protagonists in these pieces all share a common characteristic: "foreignness."On one side of the spectrum is Maria, a naturalized citizen, whose compelling story involving a custody dispute over her granddaughter is narrated by her lawyer, Professor Annette Appell.'On the other side are the human trafficking victims who, as Professor Marisa Silenzi Cianciarulo documents in her essay, are forced into prostitution by a sophisticated ring of human traffickers who profit from U.S. immigration restrictions.'In between the two are the undocumented immigrants, many who survived smugglers and a deadly desert to cross the U.S. border as children, who now work and study in the U

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