WORKBOOK 8: Race, Caste & Social Justice II – The Plight of Migrants

WORKBOOK 8: Race, Caste & Social Justice II – The Plight of Migrants

Required:

From Blau, Judith & Esparza, Louis. 2016. Chapter 8: “Solidarity”
The New Yorker Autobiographical piece by Cecilia Villavicencio (January 2021) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/waking-up-from-the-american-dream
Complementary:

Dingeman, K. 2015. Welcome Home? Report on EL Salvadorean Deportations https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/05/welcome-home

Garcia Tamez, M. 2011. “Our Way of Life is our Resistance,” on Indigenous Women in the US Mexico Border http://www.worksanddays.net/2011/File16.Tamez,%20M.11.pdf

Marchevsky, A. et al. 2018 on the Criminalization of Migrants
Other complementary materials on Migrant Rights, Report on Dreamers 2021 http://bostonreview.net/politics/alan-j-aja-alejandra-marchevsky-how-immigrants-became-criminals

Recommended Book: Isabel Wilkinson’s “Caste” (Extra Credit)
Read the above weekly required readings and any complementary readings of your choice and answer:(25-75 words per question.

1) With reference to Villavicencio’s account (and anything else you learn from Dingeman’s work on EL Salvadorean deportees)–once again despite all our claims to be world leaders of democracy: What do we learn about the reality of immigration policy in the US?
2) Using Chapter 8 as reference reading, what else can be said about solutions to the problem of immigrant policy and practices?
3) In your own opinion and experience, what can individuals and social movements do or create to address this growing problem?

Viewing: film “El Norte” (recommended) trailer on canvas, full film on Kanopy – Caution: the contents may be sensitive to viewers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPoqBCvyG9k

After viewing this material (required): What do you learn about the plight of migrants/migrant children and human rights?