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Securing Safety for Low-Income Immigrant Survivors in Contra Costa County: A Holistic Approach
Every year, Bay Area Legal Aid provides free legal services to roughly 10,000 low-income individuals, many of whom are immigrants and survivors of interpersonal violence like Silvia. Our mission across our six offices is to provide meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance regardless of a client’s location, language or disability....
Read ArticleReflections from the Guest Editor
The starting point for such a dialogue calls for a painful, but necessary understanding of the history of American immigration policy starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act. From there, one would set out on a twisting, turning, convoluted journey of examining the economic, political, geographic and racial policies that determined what it meant to be...
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