Professor Jennifer Lee explores the ways in which programs that bring hundreds of thousands of guest workers to the United States for unskilled jobs have embraced various cultural mythologies about employers reacting to the societal trends of idle U.S. workers and industrious immigrants. A more honest examination of these government programs, which essentially outsource degraded jobs on American soil, can provide insight for the politicized debate concerning immigrant labor and migration policy.

Jennifer Lee is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Temple University. She directs the Sheller Center for Social Justice where she works with students to represent low-wage workers and collaborate with community-based organizations on worker and immigrant rights issues. Lee’s research focuses on the rights of immigrant workers.