The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants,
2015
DePaul University
The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
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No abstract provided.
Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard,
2015
DePaul University
Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard, Arthur Ramírez
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No abstract provided.
Reframing Immigration In The Americas,
2015
Pomona College
Reframing Immigration In The Americas, Gilda L. Ochoa, Enrique C. Ochoa, Suyapa G. Portillo
Diálogo
No abstract provided.
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744,
2015
University of California, Irvine
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744, Gilbert G. Gonzalez
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Discussion of the guest worker program in S.B. 744 passed by the U.S. Senate in 2013-14, followed by critical examination of principle positions taken by organizations and lobbyists, and key arguments used to justify their perspectives: legal protected status vs. corporations’ need for cheap, exploitable labor. Historical context provides crucial elements for discussion.
Branding Guilt: American Apparel Inc. And Latina Labor In Los Angeles,
2015
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Branding Guilt: American Apparel Inc. And Latina Labor In Los Angeles, Hannah Noel
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A study of the marketing strategies of the clothing enterprise, American Apparel, how it targets affluent, educated youth through socially conscious tactics, including a focus on pro-immigrant rights and Los Angeles-made, “sweatshop-free” advertising. The essay analyzes the ideologies and stances behind marketing materials that often contain images of Latinas/os as laborers, and white (European origin) population as consumers, and examines how U.S.-based ethical capitalism operates as a neoliberal form of social regulation to champion personal responsibility and individual freedom, in often hidden and inferentially racist and classist ways.
Cultural Citizenship And Coming Out On A College Campus: Undocumented Students’ Responses To Everyday Immigration Enforcement,
2015
California State University, Long Beach
Cultural Citizenship And Coming Out On A College Campus: Undocumented Students’ Responses To Everyday Immigration Enforcement, Julia Wignall
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A study of the experiences of young undocumented immigrants as they transition into adulthood in Southern California, their obstacles encountered in the imposed condition of “undocumented,” even within the university experience, and innovative strategies adopted to deal with legal impediments. Using an ethnographic approach and interviews with college students, techniques such as “coming out of the shadows” and “everyday enforcement” are evaluated, as well as theories on practices of cultural citizenship, to demonstrate that undocumented students are claiming space and rights in their daily lives.
Diáspora Interruptus,
2015
Centro de Estudios de Género
Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform,
2015
University of West Virginia
Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform, Betsy Dahms
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Analysis of the founding of the UndocuQueer movement and organizer, Julio Salgado, through Anzaldúan theory on nepantla, and in terms of cultural, sexual, and political citizenship, in the experience of those who came to the U.S. as children. This study assesses reasons for “coming out” as undocumented and queer through activism; argues that coalitional and relational activism challenges current anti-immigration policies and social factors; and advocates for a global and embodied citizenship.
Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics Of Race, Indigeneity, And Immigration Among Maya Restaurant Owners In Southern California,
2015
University of Minnesota
Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics Of Race, Indigeneity, And Immigration Among Maya Restaurant Owners In Southern California, M. Bianet Castellanos
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Based on an ethnography of Maya restaurant owners in Los Angeles, the article examines how Maya migrants use Yucatecan cuisine to negotiate the politics of indigeneity. In Mexico, Maya peoples are denigrated as “Indian.” In the U.S., Maya migrants are racialized as “Mexican.” These racialization processes are intended to discipline indigenous subjects both within and outside of national boundaries. By drawing on popular indigenous cultural symbols and tastes that reinforce an idealized Maya culture, Maya restaurateurs construct an alternative politics of recognition that opens the door for new conversations about what it means to be indigenous and Latino.
Empowering Students Through Creative Resistance: Art-Based Critical Pedagogy In The Immigrant Experience,
2015
Claremont Graduate University, School of Educational Studies
Empowering Students Through Creative Resistance: Art-Based Critical Pedagogy In The Immigrant Experience, Luis-Genaro Garcia
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This study displays the value of using art-based critical pedagogy, and the importance of developing the socio-political awareness of immigrant students. It shows the development of strong student-teacher relationships through culturally relevant cirriculums through shared socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The article relates the author’s personal ongoing relationship as a high school teacher with a former undocumented student as a model and key to nurturing students’ identities and academic endeavors.
Queering Political Economy In Neoliberal Ironbound Newark: Subjectivity And Spacemaking Among Brazilian Queer Immigrant Men,
2015
Department of American Culture, University of Michigan
Queering Political Economy In Neoliberal Ironbound Newark: Subjectivity And Spacemaking Among Brazilian Queer Immigrant Men, Yamil Avivi
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This paper complicates the dominant narrative of Newark’s Ironbound community as an exceptional and heteronormative neighborhood by analyzing the non-heteronormative subjectivities and spaces in them. During the period between 2004-2009, subjects were interviewed, in queer minoritarian spaces, to understand how Brazilian gays/ queers reified and contested neoliberal ideologies of nationalism, “good” ethnicity, individualism, and “appropriate” sexual mores. This ethnographic account employs textual and spatial-temporal analysis to generate an alternative narrative of gay/queer life and groupings in the Ironbound.
Moving Beyond Immigration Reform: A Call For Social Inclusion And To Change U.S. Foreign Policy,
2015
DePaul University
Moving Beyond Immigration Reform: A Call For Social Inclusion And To Change U.S. Foreign Policy, Esther Portillo-Gonzales
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No abstract provided.
“Stop This Bullshit”,
2015
DePaul University
“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories And Testimonio In Song,
2015
Scripps College/Claremont Colleges
“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories And Testimonio In Song, Martha E. Gonzalez
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Informed by experiential methodologies, this study demonstrates how those who engage in collective creative expression, significantly songwriting and dance, affirm a sense of community to usher social and political ideas forward, while reinstating a sense of humanity for migrants within and across nation-state borders. It discusses a specific recording and collaborative composition titled Sobreviviendo.
Indigenous Migrants And Language Barriers In The U.S.,
2015
DePaul University
Indigenous Migrants And Language Barriers In The U.S., Odilia Romero
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No abstract provided.
Not Coming Out, But Building Home: An Oral History In Re-Conceptualizing A Queer Migrant Home,
2015
University of California-Santa Barbara
Not Coming Out, But Building Home: An Oral History In Re-Conceptualizing A Queer Migrant Home, Sandibel Borges
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A feminist study and oral history based in the “coming out” experiences of a Third World, Zapotec-Oaxacan, working-class immigrant woman. Discussion of community issues around queer sexualities, dominant narratives, and home building; brings attention to little-cited scholarship and theory on practices within minority communities.
Self-Determination And Intersectionality In The Immigrant Rights Movement,
2015
DePaul University
Self-Determination And Intersectionality In The Immigrant Rights Movement, Betty Hung
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No abstract provided.
The Art Of Community: An Interview With Malaquías Montoya,
2015
DePaul University
The Art Of Community: An Interview With Malaquías Montoya, Delia Consentino, Malaquías Montoya
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No abstract provided.
Despojos,
2015
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man,
2015
University of California, Riverside
El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man, Vickie Vértiz
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No abstract provided.
