Jennifer Gordon was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor about Mexico’s first ever guest-worker coalition, a kind of union of transnational migrant laborers.
… Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham Law School in New York, says part of the importance of a homegrown coalition is to take the Mexican government to task. Typically, groups focused on improving guest worker rights are based in the US, appealing to the US government for change.
“There’s a blanket dismissal of the Mexican government as incompetent and corrupt,” Ms. Gordon says. “But that has the effect of letting the Mexican government off the hook for things it should or can be held accountable for.”
