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Article tit le Advanc~no an Aslan Agenda for I m m l g r a t ~ o n Reform
Quan. K.
ASIAN AMERICAN POLICY REVIEW
Bibliographic details 2003, VOL 12, pages 43-68
Publisl~er IOHN F. KENNEDY Coulltry of USA
Volume XI1 2003 SCHOOL OF publ icat io~~ GOVERNMENT
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INTERVIEWS
Into the National Consciousness of America: An Interview with the Honorable Gary Locke, Governor of the State of Washington
Georgette Bhathena. .................................................................................................................... I
Sowing Seeds: An Interview with the Honorable Lon S. Hatamiya, Secretary of California's Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency
T Linh Ho ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Rising to Leadership: An Interview with Christina Lagdameo, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Therese Leung ............................................................................................................................... 13
RESEARCH
The Increasing Significance of Class, the Declining Significance of Race, and Wilson's Hypothesis ........................................................................................ Arthur Sakamoto and Changhwan Kim 19
Advancing an Asian Agenda for Immigration Reform Katie Quan .................................................................................................................................... 43
CHANGING LANDSCAPES: ELECTIONS, POLICY, AND INFORMATION
On the Ballot: Asian Pacific Islander American Candidates Fare Well in 2002 Elections ................................................................................................................. Rodney Jay C. Salinas 69
The Politics of Language: Bilingual Education Review PJ Gagajena ............................................................................................................................... 7 7
A Numbers Game: APIA 2000 Census Leadership and Education ofAsian Pacifies ................................................................................ 79
APA Web Sites: AAPRS Picks for the Year's Best AAPR Editorial Committee ........................................................................................................... 81
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
Remembering Patsy Mink: An Interview with Herb Lee ................................................................................................................................... Falan Hnug 85
The Life and Legacy: A Tribute to Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, University of California at Berkeley Wa,vne Ho... ................................................................................................................................. ..89
BOOK REVIEW
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Neal Parikh .................................................................................................................................. 93
Courtesy Asian American Policy Review, www.ksg.harvard.edu/aapr
Advancing an Asian Agenda for 1 1 Immigration Reform 1 / Katie Quan
Immigration policy is one of the most volatile topics of our times. Prior to 11 September 2001, the Bush administration was on the verge of agreeing to a path- breaking proposal for legalizing undocumented immigrants. However, just after September 11, that momentum halted, and immigration policies have instead become more restrictive and punitive, as evidenced in the secrecy provisions of the PATRIOT Act, the citizenship requirements of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, and lowering of entry allotments for rehgees. Although many post-September 11 policies are targeted directly at Asian immi-
grants from Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, little has been heard from Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities about their views on these matters. Even prior to September 1 1, their voices on national immigration policy issues such as legalization were not well known, despite the fact that Asian Pacific Islanders account for 3 1 percent of immigration to the United States between 1991 and 2000 (Immigration and Naturalization Service 2002a). Moreover, other con- cerns particular to API communities have not been heard at all.
To begin a dialogue on the immigration policy concerns of Asian Pacific Islander workers, the Center for Labor Research and Education (Labor Center) at UC Berkeley joined with community and union partners to sponsor a conference enti- tled "Advancing an Asian Agenda for Immigration Reform" in March 2002. The conference was attended by 130 representatives of community and labor organiza-
Katie Quan is currently an educator and researcher at UC Berkeley k Center for Labor Research and Education, and directs its John I? Henning Center for International Labor Relations. She continues her activism with garment workers as a board member of Sweatshop Watch, a coalition of garment worker advocates that she co-founded, the Worker Rights Consortium, a group of students and academics that monitors compliance with labor standards for apparel bearing universig logos, and the International Labor Rights Fund, a non-government organization that builds cross-border solidari~. The author would like to thank Cathi Tactaquin and Lillian Galedo for their valuable advice on this papec and Xiaojing Wang and Maly Purcell for their excellent research assistance.
