American Safety Net Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew University of Colorado Law School October 17 2012 Words Intended to Inspire Our history tells us that immigration in the American story has always been controversial associated always with both benefits and costs When these death ID: 656595
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Undocumented Immigrants and The
American Safety Net
Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew
University of Colorado Law School
October 17, 2012Slide2
Words Intended to Inspire“Our history tells us that immigration in the American story has always been controversial – associated always with both benefits and costs . . . When these death-bringing European immigrants became Americans by birth, their own response to further immigration was mixed.”
Otis L. Graham, “The Unfinished Reform”Slide3
Words Intended to Inspire“Immigrants’ search for a better life is one of the most basic desires of human beings. Many undocumented workers have walked mile after mile, through the heat of the day and the cold of night. Some have risked their lives in dangerous desert border crossings, or entrusted their lives to the brutal . . . . Fearful, often abused, and exploited.“
President George W. Bush (January 2004)Slide4
Complex Composition of Undocumented PopulationSlide5
Common Group Identity ModelCognitive social psychology theory that offers new tools for realigning falsely competing interests that underlie current health care and immigration law.Slide6
Common Group Identity Model
Three Principles To Direct Health Law and Policy Reform
Principle #1
- Social Categorization is fundamental to human functioning and perception
Principle #2
- Identify the Costs of Social Categorization as pertaining to Undocumented ImmigrantsSlide7
Common Group Identity Model
Third Principle To Direct Health Law and Policy Reform
Principle #3
– RECATEGORIZATION
Negative attitudes and conduct towards out-group members can be modified
Re-organize in-group membership to reflect common identity
Re-Frame messaging to create “
superordinate groups”
comprised of wage-earners and their advocates for improved working conditions, reasonable hand retirement benefits, and health policy that emphasizes public healthSlide8
Exceptional Results
Women’s Rights AdvocatesImmigration Rights Advocates