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Articles 31 - 60 of 492
Full-Text Articles in Latin American Languages and Societies
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744, Gilbert G. Gonzalez
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, Hannah Noel
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, Julia Wignall
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, Manuel Camus
Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform, Betsy Dahms
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, M. Bianet Castellanos
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, Luis-Genaro Garcia
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, 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, Esther Portillo-Gonzales
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”, Riku Matsuda
“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories And Testimonio In Song, Martha E. Gonzalez
“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., Odilia Romero
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, Sandibel Borges
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, Betty Hung
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, Delia Consentino, Malaquías Montoya
The Art Of Community: An Interview With Malaquías Montoya, Delia Consentino, Malaquías Montoya
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No abstract provided.
Despojos, Judith Pérez Soria
El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man, Vickie Vértiz
El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man, Vickie Vértiz
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No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Ester E. Hernández
Book Reviews, Ester E. Hernández
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Reviews of Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption and Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders
Poemas Migrantes, Consuelo Hernández
Poemas Migrantes, Consuelo Hernández
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Includes the poems "La inmigrante", "El tren de la muerte", "Borderlands", "Nostalgia", and "Lejos"
Book Reviews, Cindy I-Fen Cheng
Book Reviews, Cindy I-Fen Cheng
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Reviews of How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm
Aquí Estoy, Bamby Salcedo
Conflicting Commitments: The Politics Of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights In San Jose And Houston, Jacqueline Hayes
Conflicting Commitments: The Politics Of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights In San Jose And Houston, Jacqueline Hayes
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No abstract provided.
The Dreamers: How The Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed The Immigrant Rights Debate, Jéssica I. Valenzuela
The Dreamers: How The Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed The Immigrant Rights Debate, Jéssica I. Valenzuela
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No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Martha D. Escobar
Book Reviews, Martha D. Escobar
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Reviews of Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State and Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
Sharing Community: Histories And Traditions In Food Preparation, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
Sharing Community: Histories And Traditions In Food Preparation, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
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No abstract provided.
Fotógrafo Adalberto Ríos Szalay, Adalberto Ríos Szalay
The “Good,” The “Bad,” And The Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Eileen J. Ma, Stacy I. Macías, Carmen Varela
The “Good,” The “Bad,” And The Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Eileen J. Ma, Stacy I. Macías, Carmen Varela
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This article explores the evolution of the May Day Queer Contingent (MDQC) as a part of the annual Los Angeles May Day march. The MDQC is a notable example of the political mobilization led by queer women and transgender activists of color of the LGBTQ community, as it relates to the struggle for immigrant rights. Offering reflections from founders and key organizers, this paper considers the development of the MDQC; its engagement with other groups; intersectionality and queer women of color feminisms as a political project to confront a heteropatriarchal immigration reform movement.
The Art Of Malaquías Montoya, Malaquías Montoya
Latino Art And The Immigrant Artist: The Case Of Sandra C. Fernández, Tatiana Flores
Latino Art And The Immigrant Artist: The Case Of Sandra C. Fernández, Tatiana Flores
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No abstract provided.
Techniques Of Humiliation: Neoliberalism And The Noncitizen's Body, Munia Bhaumik
Techniques Of Humiliation: Neoliberalism And The Noncitizen's Body, Munia Bhaumik
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This article argues that the disciplining of noncitizens becomes a constitutive characteristic of neoliberalism. Examining two narratives about bodily deprivation in detention centers, the study pursues the psychic life of statelessness through tragic testimonies that not only point to subjection, induced through techniques of humiliation, but also to the neoliberal contradiction between “inclusion” and practices of regulation. Readings interrogate the problem of normativity in neoliberalism. In particular, the article argues against normative presuppositions about both race and gender, demonstrating how this leads to the denial of medication and death in detention facilities.