Chicana feminist writers have written eloquently about the condition of women in their communities. Many of them have aligned themselves with and participated in various political movements. This practice has infused their theorizing with various influences which makes them similar to other feminist theorists but also different. This paper provides an overview of how Chicana feminist writings address the ethnic specific ways in which gender oppression is imposed on them and their proposals for liberation.

Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 Camille Guerin-Gonzales

Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms

Welfare reform transferred considerable discretion over eligibility standards and benefits to individual caseworkers, contributing to a highly diffuse, yet system-wide, practice of discrimination against nonwhite and foreign-born families within the new TANF program. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of welfare reform's impact on Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles County, this article documents a pattern of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment and disentitlement within L.A. County's welfare system following the passage of PRWORA. The vast majority of eligible immigrant families in our study lost some or all of their cash and food stamp benefits, and were systematically denied access to the work and social supports promised under welfare reform, including childcare, training and education, and transportation. Our research illuminates how race, gender, and immigrant status intersect to block Latinas' access to welfare entitlements, and to maintain their position in low-wage and unstable employment. We describe the racial effects of three tactics used by welfare officials in L.A.: unlawful reductions or termination of immigrant benefits; harassment and humiliation through Job Club; and the tracking of immigrants away from education and into low-wage jobs. Placing the current welfare debate in the context of post-civil rights politics, we also question the refusal of mainstream policymakers and welfare researchers to engage issues of racial discrimination and inequality in their evaluation of PRWORA.

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Dropped From the Rolls : Mexican Immigrants, Race, and Rights in the Era of Welfare Reform

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Building Inequality: A Case Study of White, Black, and Latino Contractors in the Atlanta Construction Industry

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Mexican Migration to the United States, 1882-1992: A Long Twentieth Century of Coyotaje

In 2006, migrant rights demonstrations in the United States became important scenarios of Mexican identity. This work attempts to approach this phenomenon by analyzing, from a historical perspective, the processes involved in ascription to this identity in the US nation state project, from parameters of subordinated belonging. For this purpose, three axes of analysis are proposed: 1) incorporating the production of external political identities as a constituent aspect of the national community, ascribed to the nation-state political model; 2) recognizing the current role of colonial heritage; 3) incorporating the interrelation between the consolidation of a market economy and the legal production of a precarious and expendable workforce. The article’s main aim is to address «illegality» as a dynamic sociopolitical space, rather than as a legal status, from which to produce new formulas of active citizenship.

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Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 Camille Guerin-Gonzales

Citations

Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms

Dropped From the Rolls : Mexican Immigrants, Race, and Rights in the Era of Welfare Reform

Building Inequality: A Case Study of White, Black, and Latino Contractors in the Atlanta Construction Industry

Mexican Migration to the United States, 1882-1992: A Long Twentieth Century of Coyotaje

México en Estados Unidos: análisis de los procesos de conformación de la identidad mexicana «ilegalizada»

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