“DREAMers” versus the Labels Used in Government Documents and Judicial Opinions in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California

Regretfully, the debate over immigration reform has been fueled and railroaded by rhetoric that is counter-productive, divisive, and dangerous . It is one thingfor people who are not knowledgeable of the law and its history to use the pejorative terms “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant;” however, it should become unacceptable for government officials and judges to use labels like “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant.” When placed in the historical and current context of the United States, these terms carry racial animus. They have developed to attach an identity as inferior human beings to a group of people who are not wanted in the United States, including citizens and noncitizens. The term “ illegal ” has also become code language for Latinos. If government officials and judges will not do the right thing and stop using such pejorative terms, the people, especially lawyers, must challenge their use

The Female Body in the Workplace: Judges and the Common Law

If the common law serves to liberate women, everybody, including judges, should understand the role they do play and should play in the development of the common law. As a career law clerk in the federal courts, I witnessed the decision-making process inside the chambers of federal judges and in the courtrooms. I came to the conclusion that judges, more than statutory law, influence what happens to female bodies in the workplace. Litigants initially drive the common law by filing complaints. However, judicial decisions affect not only the litigants in their individual cases, they also serve as precedent for future conduct, and they influence plaintiffs and their attorneys to file or forego litigation

The Female Body in the Workplace: Judges and the Common Law

If the common law serves to liberate women, everybody, including judges, should understand the role they do play and should play in the development of the common law. As a career law clerk in the federal courts, I witnessed the decision-making process inside the chambers of federal judges and in the courtrooms. I came to the conclusion that judges, more than statutory law, influence what happens to female bodies in the workplace. Litigants initially drive the common law by filing complaints. However, judicial decisions affect not only the litigants in their individual cases, they also serve as precedent for future conduct, and they influence plaintiffs and their attorneys to file or forego litigation

Professional Women Subjugated by Name-Calling and Character Attacks

The #MeToo Movement reminds us that women can begin movements through individual action. The #MeToo Movement also confirms that we are still dealing with the same old strategies that keep women in subjugated spaces, including in our workplaces. This Article analyzes how name-calling and character attacks continue to be used to put professional women in a gendered place. These strategies were used to defeat Hillary Clinton in her efforts to become the first female president of the United States. If we do not challenge their destructive effect, professional women will continue to be expected to put up with conduct that is often dismissed as harmless or viewed as the price women pay to be in the workplace. This is similar to how women were once expected to put up with sexual harassment at work. My proposal is simple. We begin a movement by acknowledging the problem, illustrating the ways in which it manifests, and encouraging individual action to challenge it, with the hope that, like the #MeToo Movement, this individual approach will lead to collective action

"No se olviden de nosotros". Adultez mayor desde los discursos de los adultos mayores pertenecientes al campamento Manuel Bustos, Viña del Mar- V Región

Tesis (Trabajo Social)En la siguiente tesis se desarrolla el análisis del discurso sobre la noción de adultez mayor de un grupo de seis adultos mayores pertenecientes al campamento Manuel Bustos, ubicado en la parte alta de Viña del Mar. El interés investigativo del equipo tesista se vinculó a ámbitos como el creciente envejecimiento de la población (tanto a nivel nacional como Latinoamericano), la gran cantidad de “campamentos” o asentamientos precarios con los que cuenta Chile en la actualidad, y conocer la relación entre ambos elementos –la población adulta mayor y los campamentos-, teniendo en cuenta que los adultos mayores son uno de los grupos referidos como en situación de vulnerabilidad social debido a diferentes componentes de carácter biopsicosocial. Todo ello permitió establecer el fenómeno de investigación, siendo éste la adultez mayor en contexto de campamento. A partir de ello emergió la inclinación por conocer cómo manifiestan la noción de adultez mayor a través de sus discursos los adultos mayores pertenecientes al campamento Manuel Bustos en Viña del Mar- V región, destacando las complejas condiciones que posee dicho territorio. La investigación posee un corte cualitativo-interpretativo y se desarrolló con una metodología conducida por un paradigma construccionista, conjunto a la teoría del interaccionismo simbólico y la teoría fundamentada, aplicando seis entrevistas de carácter semi-estructuradas, las cuales permitieron levantar un análisis de discurso enfocado en el lenguaje y relevando la importancia de la construcción que los mismos adultos mayores pudiesen hacer sobre dicha etapa del ciclo de vida, a través de la interpretación que el equipo pudo dar cuenta sobre ésta. Se desplegaron finalmente cuatro categorías de análisis: consecuencias territoriales, visión geoantrópica del campamento, adultez mayor y, por último como categoría emergente, vulnerabilidad social. Cada categoría se compuso de unidades de análisis (códigos) que otorgaron una visión integral sobre el fenómeno investigado