History of Latin America
Migration and Immigration
Lecture outline
Readings: Quinones, "Delfino I + Delfino II"
Martínez, "The Unfortunate History of an Undocumented Man"
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We've been having the immigration conversation for a long time
-- here's an archive from this class over the years
Latinos in the U.S. meatpacking industry in the early 2000s, from the Migration Policy Institute
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers founded in 2000 and still going
Marine lance corporal José Gutierrez, a Guatemalan migrant and one of the first soldiers to die in Iraq -- 2003
John Bowe on Mexican and Guatemalan workers in Florida for The New Yorker in 2003
The Wall Street Journal rediscovers the informal economy (hallmark of the 1980s in Latin America),
in the midst of the 2008 crisis
Remembering Marine private Guy Gabaldon,
the Mexican-American whose WWII story was told without reference to his ethnicity in the movie Hell to Eternity
The NYTimes assessed NAFTA after 15 years
Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. according to the 2010 U.S. census
PBS's Frontline on Obama administration deportation policies in 2011
NPR's web essay Borderland -- what the border, and the conversation, looked like in 2014
Salvadoran teens caught between MS-13 and deportation, 2017
A Mexican view of historical immigration, 2018
A more recent report on Guatemalan teens working off their family's debt to coyotes on egg farms in Ohio, 2018