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The article focuses on the conflict between vendors, many of them immigrant women, and the New York City government over permits for street vending in Corona Plaza, Queens.

The article reports on the existence of maternity centers that operate in private homes and apartments in New York and New Jersey area without any government oversight. The maternity centers provide services to newly arrived immigrant mothers and assistance to women from China who wish to give birth in the U.S. to obtain instant citizenship for their children. Information is also presented on a stabbing incident involving employee Yu Fen Wang.

This article offers a look at the life of a woman illegal immigrant into the United States from Mexico, who fled her financial problems and an abusive husband with three of her daughters. According to the author, the woman was able to purchase a home and two cars, but was stunned when two of her teenage daughters made plans to marry.

The article offers information on attacking, sexually assaulting and kidnapping of women immigrants by a Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares and Judge Randy Crane of the Federal District Court in Texas, dismissed claims of negligent hiring and supervision of Manzanares filed by two of the women.

The article discusses the cases of migrant mothers Yeni González and Yolany Padilla who had been detended with their children taken away from them and outlines their quest to reunite with their children and also questions the approach of the U.S. government to reunite families.

The article discusses how Tamantra Bowen, an immigrant from Guyana and suffering with cerebral palsy had finally bought her own apartment in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.

The article reports on the letter wrote by three migrant teenaged girls for the cabin's owner they broke in Encino, Texas.

The article discusses an increasing number of Central American immigrant women and children crossing the U.S. Border into Texas as of June 16, 2014. Topics addressed include rumors amongst immigrants regarding the release of many detained women and children due to overcrowding of detention sites equipped for families, the role of economic and social conditions in Central America in driving the increase in immigration, and debate over the best U.S. policy to address the influx.

The article focuses on the New American Leaders Project which trains women with immigrant heritage to run for public office.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of teaching English language to immigrant Muslim women in the U.S.

Notes the increasing presence of female economic migrants in the U.S., especially in big cities like New York. The growing percentage of women in the nation's low-wage immigrant work force; Views of experts, who say that more women are migrating for work; Risks of day labor; How the women depend on one another and their own instincts for safety; Pressures to take chances.

Focuses on businesses that have sprung up to fill a niche created from the influx of immigrants to the Sunset Park neighborhood of New York (N.Y.). Factors leading the creation of Fortune Restaurant Uniform and Supplies Inc. by Maggie Leung; Other businesses that have been created, including one that creates lettering and awnings for shopkeepers; Description of the Sunset Park neighborhood and the enterprises in that area; Statistics indicating multiculturalism of the area, according to New York City's Department of Planning; Comments from Leung regarding her business and the loyalty of her customers.

The article reports on the results of the study conducted by Pew Research Center which reveal that national birthrate dropped in 2011 and 14 percent decline among foreign-born women from 2007 to 2010.

From a stool barely a foot high, the Nepalese woman hunched over the wrinkled feet of an older woman, attending to them with care and proficiency. She immersed the customer's feet in a small whirlpool, snipping and filing away. ''I didn't even tell my friends what I did here because I felt so embarrassed,'' the woman said, reaching for a pumice stone to remove dry skin from the bottom of the customer's feet. ''Now, no more.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 14 years, Rody Alvarado finally has the full support of the United States government in her struggle to find safe haven here. She fled Guatemala in 1995 after enduring years of horrific beatings and sexual abuse by her husband. Though the facts of her suffering were not disputed, her case took a tortuous route through immigration courts, where the question of asylum for battered women has long been muddled by controversy, indecision and inaction. Ms. Alvarado heard every kind of answer to her plea -- no, yes, maybe, we don't know, we're thinking about it. It wasn't until late October that the Department of Homeland Security told a court in San Francisco that it considered Ms. Alvarado eligible for asylum, clearing the way for a judge to grant her, at last, the right to stay. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States. The study, which federal immigration officials criticized as narrow and unsubstantiated, was conducted from August 2007 to August 2008 by the Southwest Institute of Research on Women and the James E. Rogers College of Law, both at the University of Arizona. It was released Jan. 13. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on a recent human trafficking incident which occurred in New York City. It is reported that a woman immigrant from South Korea who had been involving in prostitution was forced to cooperate with a psychic man and was injured severely. The author comments that though the U.S. had abolished slave trade, sex traffickers are simply the heirs of the slave tradition.

The article offers information on the plight of immigrants in Queens, New York City. It exemplifies an old woman from Syria who use to beg on the sidewalks on 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights in the area. It states that most people living in the area have roots in developing countries, however, they loathe female beggars, as, according to them, it doesn't give a good impression of the area.

The article focuses on the problems faced by Sandra Vallejo, an Ecuador immigrant to the U.S. Vallejo and her husband immigrated to the U.S. in 2002 with their two eldest children. After the killing of her husband in September 2005, she was granted a one year humanitarian parole visa. Vallejo's seven children live in the U.S. and if her visa is not extended she faces separation from her children.

Profiles Alva Barrezueta, 66, who checks coats for patrons at Pietro's, an Italian steakhouse in New York City. Why Barrezueta has become a legend among Pietro's clientele; How Barrezueta, who has been checking coats for 35 years, relies on her powers of recollection; Background on Barrezueta, who came to New York from Mendoza, Argentina; How she landed the job at Pietro's through a fellow Argentine; Biographical details; Comments of Barrezueta; How she remembers names, stories and affiliations as well as faces; Information on Pietro's, which originally opened in 1932.

Reports on the discovery of a woman in a wood crate shipped to Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, on a cargo flight from the Bahamas.

Reports on the controversy over the detention of South African Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed for illegal entry into the U.S. through South Texas. Basis of security officials for linking Ahmed to terrorist groups; Lack of negative information on the criminal background of Ahmed; Response of South African officials to the issue.

Explores how Mexican immigrant waitress Graciela Diaz established a new life with her husband and daughter in Las Vegas, Nevada. Diaz' enrolment in the Las Vegas Culinary Training Academy to improve her career in the hospitality industry; Average income of Diaz as a waitress; Illegal arrival of Diaz in the United States; U.S. citizenship acquired by Diaz through her father who was given amnesty.

Focuses on the March for Women's Lives rally to be held in Washington D.C. in April 2004. Advocacy of abortion rights; Participation of women immigrants in the rally; Longtime abortion rights advocates' view of a growing complacency among women who have come of age since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1970s ruling in the case "Roe v. Wade"; Leaders' acknowledgment of the challenge in mobilizing the post-Roe generation.

Profiles playwright Elizabeth Swados, the author of "Missionaries" and her latest musical, "Ten Years of Hope." Highlights of "Ten Years of Hope," a look at the immigrant women who fled countries like El Salvador in search of a haven and a fresh start in Brooklyn; Commissioning of the piece by Sisters Mary Burns and Mary Dowd to mark the 10th anniversary of their Maura Clarke-Ita Ford Center in Brooklyn which is named after two Maryknoll nuns killed in an attack in El Salvador in 1980.

Discusses how a wave of foreign television in New York City and across the U.S. is becoming an emotional outlet for immigrants. Comments of immigrants in New York City who watch the foreign channels; Concerns of some scholars over the availability of international channels; Favorites from abroad, including soap operas, news and sports; Cost of cable packages in the New York-New Jersey region; Increase in satellite dishes; Packaging of ethnic channels.

Profiles Beulah Reid, who left Trinidad to work in New York City. Biographical and career details; Comments of Reid; How Reid's story reflects the experience of New York City's Caribbean immigrants; Information on the city's Caribbean population; Pivotal role of women in the successes of the city's West Indian population and the economic vitality of the neighborhoods.

Focuses on Russian émigrés in Brooklyn of New York City who like to shop and want to buy fur coats. Discussion of the number of Russian, Ukranian, and other immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the metropolitan New York area; Comments from people, especially women, about why they want to wear fur; Comments from academics and sales people.

Describes the life of Melania, a middle-aged Peruvian woman who immigrated to the United States. Her living arrangement in New York City; How she communicates with her husband and children in Peru; Details of their daily life and the poverty in Peru; How she lost her job in a restaurant after the attack on the World Trade Center; Money she receives from the disaster relief agencies and the amount she sends to her family in Peru.

Reports on a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals which states that pregnant illegal immigrant women have no right to prenatal care under Medicaid. Details of their decision; Description of the lawsuit in New York City; Assurance of health care for children after they are born.

Features the experiences of Irina Bulycheva, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, and her family in New York City. INSET: HOW TO HELP.

Reveals the past of Marta Mercado, a former illegal immigrant in the United States.