U.S.-China rivalry has increasingly jeopardized the rights and interests of transnational actors whose lives span the two countries. Few are more exposed than the Chinese diaspora in the United States, which has faced heightened discrimination, regulatory scrutiny, and other government actions justified on national security grounds. How do members of the diaspora mobilize law to defend themselves, why have Chinese immigrant lawyers emerged as the principal organizers, and how does their litigation shape the implementation of policies targeting China and people of Chinese origin? Drawing on interviews, digital ethnography, two original surveys, and judicial archives, this article traces diaspora legal mobilization from the successful 2020 challenge to the executive order banning WeChat to its institutionalization in the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance, which has since contested the China Initiative, state alien land laws, and the termination of Chinese students’ visa status. Litigation, the article argues, transformed dispersed grievances into sustained collective action and generated the organizational capacity, legal consciousness, and institutional infrastructure for successive rounds of mobilization, making the courtroom an overlooked arena of contemporary U.S.-China relations.
Wed, 10/14/2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Please join us for a 2-hours seminar by Professors Jingqiu Chen and XInxin Li from Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 12pm-2pm, Feb. 21, Janice Levin Building. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work and Employment and HRM department.
Tue, 02/21/2023, 12pm - 2pm
In this presentation, Professor Yu Xie first documents a sharp rise in economic inequality in contemporary China. He then presents results from his research program on the impact of rising economic inequality on a variety of social and demographic outcomes in China: intergenerational mobility, marriage age, marriage partner choice, fertility, and mortality.
Thu, 02/16/2023 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
Ginny Doellgast and Ian Greer (Cornell University) will present on their recent books: Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Doellgast) and Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy: Autonomy and Automation (Greer).
Thu, 2/02/23 - 10:00am-12:00pm
How to retain and engage employees in the post-pandemic world has recently caught wide public attention in many countries. Three speakers of this forum, Robert Ployhart (University of South Carolina), Chris Rowley (University of Oxford), and Ingo Weller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), will share their insights on this issue focusing on the situations in the US, the UK, and Germany.
Mon, 11/28/22 - 10:30am-12:00pm
Online
The Center for Global Work and Employment, the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN), and the Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University hosted a discussion on the Just Transition Listening Project (JTLP)’s 2021 report Workers and Communities in Transition.
Mon, 05/02/2022 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
In this talk co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work & Employment and Rutgers Global-China Office, Xueguang Zhou (Stanford University) will present on his forthcoming book, The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This book summarized his decade-long fieldwork and research on various aspects of governance practice in contemporary China.
Thu, 04/28/2022 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Join the Center for Global Work and Employment on April 18, 2022 for a presentation by Mark Anner (Penn State University) on his recent International Labour Review piece “Three labour governance mechanisms for addressing decent work deficits in global value chains.”
Mon, 04/18/2022 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
Join the Center for Global Work and Employment and Rutgers Business School on February 25, 2022 for an online discussion with Sarosh Kuruvilla (Cornell University) on his recent book “Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Problems, Progress, and Prospects.”
Fri, 02/25/2022 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Join us for this book launch event for LERA Research Volume 2021, "Revaluing Work(ers)" edited by SMLR's Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Todd E. Vachon
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
