History of Latin America
Migration and Immigration
Lecture outline
Readings: Quinones, "Delfino I"
Safe travels!
On migration, neoliberalism/free trade, and human trafficking
NPR's web essay Borderland
Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. according to the 2010 U.S. census
PBS's Frontline on Obama administration deportation policies
Latinos in the U.S. meatpacking industry, from the Migration Policy Institute
The Wall Street Journal rediscovers the informal economy in the midst of crisis
The threat of Chinese labor to Central American maquiladoras
John Bowe on This American Life, "Competition," Act I 'Cowboys and Indians' (this time it's not Latin Americans, but Indian workers in Tulsa, OK). He wrote this story about Mexican and Guatemalan workers in Florida for The New Yorker
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers home page
Marine private Guy Gabaldon, the "pied piper of Saipan," a Mexican-American whose WWII story was told (but without reference to his ethnicity) in the movie Hell to Eternity
Marine lance corporal José Gutierrez, a Guatemalan migrant and one of the first soldiers to die in Iraq
Mexico quietly released the long-promised report on its own "Dirty War" in 2006
Great aerial photos of Mexico City!! (This is how the wealthy travel -- by helicopter taxi)