Posted: September 13th, 2017
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Please respond to one of the following prompt. Write an essay in response to prompt number 2 using only readings from the bottom
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2. In their articles from weeks 7 and 8, a number of migration scholars explore the complex transnational processes that have contributed to the explosive growth of the Mexican-origin and pan-Latino populations of the United States in recent decades, suggesting that the ongoing demographic revolution can be explained partially as the result of a combination of: policy-driven regional political and economic integration; massive economic restructuring on both sides of the border; international investment patterns; and labor recruitment practices by employers. Based on what you know about the generally negative attitudes many Americans have exhibited toward people they have historically defined as non-white peoples, and citing evidence from readings, handouts, and film and lecture notes, draft an essay of 10-12 pages in which you assess the strengths and weaknesses of these arguments and explore how and why the nation’s Mexican-origin and Mexican-heritage population was allowed to grow from fewer than six million individuals in 1970 to nearly 35 million today, while the overall Latino population has grown from less than 5 percent of the U.S. population to more than 17 percent today.
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WEEK SEVEN (Feb. 17, 19): GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MIGRATION, AND THE RISE OF THE NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC ORDER
READ: Wayne A. Grove, “The Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942-1964
: Government Administered Labor Market Insurance for Farmers,” Agricultural History 70 (2) (Sept. 1996): 302-20;
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3744539
David Harvey, “Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610 (1) (Mar. 2007): 21-44
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arras004/socialetymologies/HarveyNeolibCreatDestruc.pdf
; Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Douglas S. Massey, “Borders for Whom? The Role of NAFTA in Mexico-U.S. Migration,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610 (1) (Mar. 2007): 98-118
http://ann.sagepub.com/content/610/1/98.abstract
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25097891
; Donna Chollett, “From Sugar to Blackberries: Restructuring Agro-Export Production in Michoacán, Mexico,” Latin American Perspectives 36 (3) (May 2009): 79-92.
http://lap.sagepub.com/content/36/3/79.full.pdf
READ: Douglas Massey and Karen A. Pren, “Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge from Latin America,” Population and Development Review 38 (1) (March 2012): 1-29;
Matthew R. Sanderson, “Networks of Capital, Networks for Migration: Political-Economic Integration and the Changing Geography of Mexico-U.S. Immigration,”
Global Networks 14 (1) (2014): 23-43;
William Kandel and Camilio A Parrado, “Restructuring of the U.S. Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Destinations,” Population and Development Review 31 (3) (Sept. 2005): 447-71.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3401474
http://migrationfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cf/files/2006-june/kandel-parrado.pdf
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