By Jeffrey Cohen, associate professor, Ohio State University Governor Brewer’s signing of Arizona law SB1070 late last month has shifted the debate concerning immigration reform in our country and changed the very environment into which migrants (legal and extra legal) now live. The law, which at its most basic seeks to “deter the unlawful entry [...]
Continue reading …by Theresa Delgadillo, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University In the area of Latino/a Studies, which I teach, it is well known that immigration policy affects all Latino/as. This is true not because all Latino/as are immigrants – indeed, both Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans became U.S. citizens in the 19th and 20th centuries by annexation [...]
Continue reading …The Border Network for Human Rights: Building an immigrant movement in the besieged borderlands
May 10, 2010 Comments OffBy Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso The Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) is an immigrant community based organization working for human rights in the El Paso and southern New Mexico area of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It consists of a small central staff and a large set of local [...]
Continue reading …From Special Guest Race-Talk Editor, Angela Stuesse This week the film Mississippi Chicken makes its Ohio premier: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else. In the 1990s, poultry companies in Mississippi and [...]
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