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Mexican labor in the United States
01 Jan 1970-
About: The article was published on 1970-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 102 citations till now.
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The authors argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migrants' origin and destination and the removal of national blinders so that both domestic and international migrations are brought into the same frame for comparison.
Abstract: Building on the transnationalism literature, I argue for multi-sited fieldwork in countries of migrants’ origin and destination and the removal of national blinders so that both domestic and international migrations are brought into the same frame for comparison. Such an approach can move beyond description alone by amending the extended case method to engage theoretical research programs in ways that attend to the representativeness of a case study. The analytical fruit of these strategies is demonstrated with examples from the migration literature and ten years of ethnographic and survey fieldwork among Mexican migrants.
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01 Jan 2005
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: The authors used census material and interviews with three generations of Mexican migrants to the US to explore the changing meaning of migration for family strategies of survival and how it affects transnational identities in both the US and Mexico.
Abstract: This chapter uses census material and interviews with three generations of Mexican migrants to the US to explore the changing meaning of migration for family strategies of survival and how it affects transnational identities in both the US and Mexico. Using the concepts of family time and industrial time (labor markets and urbanization), and adding that of migration time (the dominant US migration policy), it looks at migrant family economies and the different ways family members adapted to historical changes in industrial time and migration time. The paper begins with the Bracero Program (1941–1962) and continues with the surge in undocumented migration from the 1970s and the peak in the 1990s, ending in the present when non-visa net migration to the US is close to zero. The drastic change in migration policy with the border blockade of the new millennium has paradoxically locked temporary undocumented migrants into the United States. This has helped create a new demographic in the US in which Hispanic children, mainly of Mexican origin, are the largest single ethnic component in the school-age population in many cities and states. It also weakens transnational ties with Mexico at the same time as the rise in involuntary deportations increases the insecurity of a substantial portion of the Mexican-born population in the US.
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TL;DR: The first overview in this country of Mexican Americans and the Chicano movement, discussing a small selection of the outpouring of material on this subject, and suggesting that the time has come to incorporate the study of 'Greater Mexico' into the teaching of Latin American (and American) Studies.
Abstract: This article is the first overview in this country of Mexican Americans and the Chicano movement, discussing a small selection of the outpouring of material on this subject, and suggesting that the time has come to incorporate the study of 'Greater Mexico' into the teaching of Latin American (and American) Studies. The comparable case of the Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas will have to wait for a later article. It might be objected that as Mexican-Americans are part of the population of the United States they are no concern for Latinamericanists. This seems to me a blinkered view. Hispanics now constitute the largest non-English speaking group in the United States, and although there are deep divisions within La Rata in social, economic and political terms, their affinity and ties with Latin America will increasingly exert an influence on the way in which the United States looks at its southern neighbours. Whether this influence will act as a bridge of understanding, as a support for Reaganite policies, or as a radicalizing force on U.S. public opinion is an open question, but U.S. foreign policy cannot be understood without an awareness of the influence of the increasing number of government officials of Hispanic origin. Where would the CIA's Latin American desk be without its exile advisers? The impact of the rise of the Hispanics on the future development of the United States and on its self-perception can no longer be ignored. It is now becoming clearer that some of the most sacred assumptions about America are being challenged by the Spanishspeaking groups, and especially those of Mexican descent. The internal consequences of the new assertiveness of Hispanics may not be of immediate concern to Latinamericanists. Changes in the electoral balance resulting from registration of hitherto politically apathetic MexicanAmericans are beginning to affect party alignments. Similarly, a faster demographic growth among Hispanics is affecting the ethnic balance in I7I
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