Laura Harris
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823279784
- eISBN:
- 9780823281480
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279784.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, James and Oiticica, Harris chart a desire in their work to formulate alternative theories of citizenship, ...
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Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, James and Oiticica, Harris chart a desire in their work to formulate alternative theories of citizenship, wherein common reception of popular cultural forms is linked to a potentially expanded, non-exclusive polity. By carefully analyzing the materiality of the multiply-lined, multiply voiced writing of the “undocuments” that record these social experiments and relay their prophetic descriptions of and instructions for the new social worlds they wished to forge and inhabit, however, Harris argue that their projects ultimately challenge rather than seek to rehabilitate normative conceptions of citizens and polities as well as authors and artworks. James and Oiticica’s experiments recall the insurgent sociality of “the motley crew” historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker describe in The Many-Headed Hydra, their study of the trans-Atlantic, cross-gendered, multi-racial working class of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reading James’s and Oiticica’s projects against the grain of Linebaugh and Rediker’s inability to find evidence of that sociality’s persistence or futurity, Harris show how James and Oiticica gravitate toward and seek to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms, which are for them always also aesthetic forms, in the barrack-yards of Port-of-Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York. The formal openness and performative multiplicity that manifests itself at the place where writing and organizing converge invokes that sociality and provokes its ongoing re-invention. Their writing extends a radical, collective Afro-diasporic intellectuality, an aesthetic sociality of blackness, where blackness is understood not as the eclipse, but the ongoing transformative conservation of the motley crew’s multi-raciality. Blackness is further instantiated in the interracial and queer sexual relations, and in a new sexual metaphorics of production and reproduction, whose disruption and reconfiguration of gender structures the collaborations from which James’s and Oiticica’s undocuments emerge, orienting them towards new forms of social, aesthetic and intellectual life.Less
Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, James and Oiticica, Harris chart a desire in their work to formulate alternative theories of citizenship, wherein common reception of popular cultural forms is linked to a potentially expanded, non-exclusive polity. By carefully analyzing the materiality of the multiply-lined, multiply voiced writing of the “undocuments” that record these social experiments and relay their prophetic descriptions of and instructions for the new social worlds they wished to forge and inhabit, however, Harris argue that their projects ultimately challenge rather than seek to rehabilitate normative conceptions of citizens and polities as well as authors and artworks. James and Oiticica’s experiments recall the insurgent sociality of “the motley crew” historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker describe in The Many-Headed Hydra, their study of the trans-Atlantic, cross-gendered, multi-racial working class of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reading James’s and Oiticica’s projects against the grain of Linebaugh and Rediker’s inability to find evidence of that sociality’s persistence or futurity, Harris show how James and Oiticica gravitate toward and seek to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms, which are for them always also aesthetic forms, in the barrack-yards of Port-of-Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York. The formal openness and performative multiplicity that manifests itself at the place where writing and organizing converge invokes that sociality and provokes its ongoing re-invention. Their writing extends a radical, collective Afro-diasporic intellectuality, an aesthetic sociality of blackness, where blackness is understood not as the eclipse, but the ongoing transformative conservation of the motley crew’s multi-raciality. Blackness is further instantiated in the interracial and queer sexual relations, and in a new sexual metaphorics of production and reproduction, whose disruption and reconfiguration of gender structures the collaborations from which James’s and Oiticica’s undocuments emerge, orienting them towards new forms of social, aesthetic and intellectual life.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.001.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
Living on the Margins offers a unique insight into the lives of undocumented migrants from China, Bangladesh and Turkey (including Kurds and Northern Cypriots) in London, and those who employ them. ...
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Living on the Margins offers a unique insight into the lives of undocumented migrants from China, Bangladesh and Turkey (including Kurds and Northern Cypriots) in London, and those who employ them. The experiences we present are not unique to undocumented migrants in London; their experiences are mirrored by undocumented migrants all over the world who are living and working in cities, on farms, in towns and villages.
Drawing on qualitative interviews, the book offers insights into the reasons why undocumented migrants come to the UK, their journeys including the use of agents and smugglers and their routes into undocumented status, how they survive economically, experiences at work, the ways in which social networks are used and developed and how everyday exclusions are managed. While undocumented migrants can be vulnerable, exploited and isolated they can also be active agents in shaping their lives within the constraints of status.
Breaking new ground, this topical book exposes the contradictions in policies, which marginalise and criminalise undocumented migrants, while promoting potentially exploitative labour market conditions. By presenting the employer perspective we are able to explore the possible impact of policy on the decision making of employers in relation to employment business practises, worker recruitment strategies and decisions to whether to employ undocumented migrants.
The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach drawing on literature from a number of disciplines including: sociology, politics, social policy and socio-legal studies. This fascinating book offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.Less
Living on the Margins offers a unique insight into the lives of undocumented migrants from China, Bangladesh and Turkey (including Kurds and Northern Cypriots) in London, and those who employ them. The experiences we present are not unique to undocumented migrants in London; their experiences are mirrored by undocumented migrants all over the world who are living and working in cities, on farms, in towns and villages.
Drawing on qualitative interviews, the book offers insights into the reasons why undocumented migrants come to the UK, their journeys including the use of agents and smugglers and their routes into undocumented status, how they survive economically, experiences at work, the ways in which social networks are used and developed and how everyday exclusions are managed. While undocumented migrants can be vulnerable, exploited and isolated they can also be active agents in shaping their lives within the constraints of status.
Breaking new ground, this topical book exposes the contradictions in policies, which marginalise and criminalise undocumented migrants, while promoting potentially exploitative labour market conditions. By presenting the employer perspective we are able to explore the possible impact of policy on the decision making of employers in relation to employment business practises, worker recruitment strategies and decisions to whether to employ undocumented migrants.
The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach drawing on literature from a number of disciplines including: sociology, politics, social policy and socio-legal studies. This fascinating book offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.
Alison J. Murray Levine
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940414
- eISBN:
- 9781789629408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940414.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World ...
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This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel, 2014) on homeless people in central Paris; and La Permanence/On Call (Alice Diop, 2016), which depicts a free medical clinic in Bobigny. In all of these films, the protagonists live at the metaphorical edge of society, and some walk other edges as well, between life and death, between physical and mental illness and health. These three directors explore what happens at these edges, far outside the realm of direct experience for most documentary film viewers. They follow characters to physical and geographical edges—national borders, riverbanks, beaches, and roadsides—and invite viewers to tiptoe up to those edges and feel the danger they pose. The films create film spaces, if ephemeral ones, where these rootless individuals do belong, where they can emerge as individuals, and where there is a potential for experiential and ecological connection with the viewer.Less
This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel, 2014) on homeless people in central Paris; and La Permanence/On Call (Alice Diop, 2016), which depicts a free medical clinic in Bobigny. In all of these films, the protagonists live at the metaphorical edge of society, and some walk other edges as well, between life and death, between physical and mental illness and health. These three directors explore what happens at these edges, far outside the realm of direct experience for most documentary film viewers. They follow characters to physical and geographical edges—national borders, riverbanks, beaches, and roadsides—and invite viewers to tiptoe up to those edges and feel the danger they pose. The films create film spaces, if ephemeral ones, where these rootless individuals do belong, where they can emerge as individuals, and where there is a potential for experiential and ecological connection with the viewer.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062594
- eISBN:
- 9780813051611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062594.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines two extended life narratives by undocumented subjects: Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s memoir Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant and the oral history of an undocumented Nicaraguan ...
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This chapter examines two extended life narratives by undocumented subjects: Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s memoir Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant and the oral history of an undocumented Nicaraguan immigrant, “Yamileth,” recorded by Diana Walta Hart in Undocumented in L.A. Neither Yamileth nor Pérez sees themselves as a permanent immigrant (illegal or otherwise) in their life stories. Thus, while both texts resist certain strands of dominant discourse about illegal immigrants, they also express a transnational sensibility that exhibits a strong sense of agency about the subjects’ plotting of their own life stories. This, even while perhaps simultaneously confirming negative rhetoric about recent immigrants’ unwillingness to assimilate to “American” culture or be fully incorporated into U.S. society.Less
This chapter examines two extended life narratives by undocumented subjects: Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s memoir Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant and the oral history of an undocumented Nicaraguan immigrant, “Yamileth,” recorded by Diana Walta Hart in Undocumented in L.A. Neither Yamileth nor Pérez sees themselves as a permanent immigrant (illegal or otherwise) in their life stories. Thus, while both texts resist certain strands of dominant discourse about illegal immigrants, they also express a transnational sensibility that exhibits a strong sense of agency about the subjects’ plotting of their own life stories. This, even while perhaps simultaneously confirming negative rhetoric about recent immigrants’ unwillingness to assimilate to “American” culture or be fully incorporated into U.S. society.
Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496811370
- eISBN:
- 9781496811417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496811370.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
The third chapter proposes a critique of Alcaraz’s first published volume, a compilation of editorial cartoons inspired on diverse aspects of the controversy surrounding Latino immigration, from the ...
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The third chapter proposes a critique of Alcaraz’s first published volume, a compilation of editorial cartoons inspired on diverse aspects of the controversy surrounding Latino immigration, from the questioning of corporate attitudes to the appropriation of language as an excuse for harassment. In them, we can recognize the temperament of an individual willing to take a stance against opportunist politicians and law-enforcement abuse. Alcaraz’s illustrations document the escalation of a confrontation in some parts of the country as immigration and the presence of Latinos become a surrogate way of addressing the need for acceptance and tolerance of greater cultural diversity. The text also chronicles the cartoonist’s predicaments along the process of coming up with a suitable vehicle for his assessments. The chapter shows how, despite being well intentioned, Alcaraz’s responses sometimes do not advance the case for Latino immigration in the most practical manner and thus perpetuate a polarized atmosphere.Less
The third chapter proposes a critique of Alcaraz’s first published volume, a compilation of editorial cartoons inspired on diverse aspects of the controversy surrounding Latino immigration, from the questioning of corporate attitudes to the appropriation of language as an excuse for harassment. In them, we can recognize the temperament of an individual willing to take a stance against opportunist politicians and law-enforcement abuse. Alcaraz’s illustrations document the escalation of a confrontation in some parts of the country as immigration and the presence of Latinos become a surrogate way of addressing the need for acceptance and tolerance of greater cultural diversity. The text also chronicles the cartoonist’s predicaments along the process of coming up with a suitable vehicle for his assessments. The chapter shows how, despite being well intentioned, Alcaraz’s responses sometimes do not advance the case for Latino immigration in the most practical manner and thus perpetuate a polarized atmosphere.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
This chapter, in conjunction with Chapter 2, provides the overall context for the book. First, this chapter locates undocumented migration within the broader theoretical paradigms that consider ...
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This chapter, in conjunction with Chapter 2, provides the overall context for the book. First, this chapter locates undocumented migration within the broader theoretical paradigms that consider economic, structural and migration systems as drivers for international migration as well as the structural and state based factors that result in irregular migration. Secondly, we explore the literature on social capital in the form of networks. These networks can, on the one hand act as a trap while on the other hand as a mechanism for securing some, even if extremely minimal, resources for undocumented migrants and is central to our analysis. Thirdly the literature on the labour market experiences and strategies among undocumented migrants will be examined, alongside that of ethnic enclave employers, including their preferences for certain types of workers who are often from the same ethnic group and perceived to be hard working and compliant. Throughout we will address the main cleavages of gender, class, power and status that frame the analysis in the empirical chapters.Less
This chapter, in conjunction with Chapter 2, provides the overall context for the book. First, this chapter locates undocumented migration within the broader theoretical paradigms that consider economic, structural and migration systems as drivers for international migration as well as the structural and state based factors that result in irregular migration. Secondly, we explore the literature on social capital in the form of networks. These networks can, on the one hand act as a trap while on the other hand as a mechanism for securing some, even if extremely minimal, resources for undocumented migrants and is central to our analysis. Thirdly the literature on the labour market experiences and strategies among undocumented migrants will be examined, alongside that of ethnic enclave employers, including their preferences for certain types of workers who are often from the same ethnic group and perceived to be hard working and compliant. Throughout we will address the main cleavages of gender, class, power and status that frame the analysis in the empirical chapters.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0002
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
The focus of this chapter on the creation and positioning of undocumented migrants within policy, law and human rights frameworks. We explore the European agreements, international rights’ frameworks ...
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The focus of this chapter on the creation and positioning of undocumented migrants within policy, law and human rights frameworks. We explore the European agreements, international rights’ frameworks and the role of citizenship as a mechanism for inclusion and exclusion and locate some recent developments within the UK immigration and asylum policies within that general framework. The chapter argues that it is states and not migrants that foster undocumented migration, as a product of tightening immigration controls. By focusing on the key instruments which governments have resorted to in destination countries, as a response to migrants and undocumented migration, the chapter demonstrates that none of the legislative measures introduced is positioned to answer the problems they raise in relation to undocumented migration. The measures which EU Member States, in particular have adopted, represent crude responses to a much wider problem of uneven development, poverty in many areas of the world and the attraction to employers of labour that is not in a position to complain and which cannot assert its rights.Less
The focus of this chapter on the creation and positioning of undocumented migrants within policy, law and human rights frameworks. We explore the European agreements, international rights’ frameworks and the role of citizenship as a mechanism for inclusion and exclusion and locate some recent developments within the UK immigration and asylum policies within that general framework. The chapter argues that it is states and not migrants that foster undocumented migration, as a product of tightening immigration controls. By focusing on the key instruments which governments have resorted to in destination countries, as a response to migrants and undocumented migration, the chapter demonstrates that none of the legislative measures introduced is positioned to answer the problems they raise in relation to undocumented migration. The measures which EU Member States, in particular have adopted, represent crude responses to a much wider problem of uneven development, poverty in many areas of the world and the attraction to employers of labour that is not in a position to complain and which cannot assert its rights.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0003
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
The focus of this chapter is on migration journeys and routes into becoming undocumented. The argument is that there is no one experience of these processes. Instead experiences combine with ...
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The focus of this chapter is on migration journeys and routes into becoming undocumented. The argument is that there is no one experience of these processes. Instead experiences combine with structural barriers and immigration policies, personal circumstances, opportunities and resources, both economic and social. In this chapter we start by exploring migration motives and reasons for coming to the UK among the undocumented migrants interviewed. We then examine the use of agents and smugglers, the journey itself and the different ways in which migrants initially entered the country. The third part of the chapter examines migrants’ routes in and out of different statuses and how and why they found themselves undocumented. Finally, we explore both attempts to regularise status and decisions for not attempting to do this. The chapter shows the ways in which motives, strategies and experiences varied and that there was a country of origin, ethnicity and gender dimension to these variations.Less
The focus of this chapter is on migration journeys and routes into becoming undocumented. The argument is that there is no one experience of these processes. Instead experiences combine with structural barriers and immigration policies, personal circumstances, opportunities and resources, both economic and social. In this chapter we start by exploring migration motives and reasons for coming to the UK among the undocumented migrants interviewed. We then examine the use of agents and smugglers, the journey itself and the different ways in which migrants initially entered the country. The third part of the chapter examines migrants’ routes in and out of different statuses and how and why they found themselves undocumented. Finally, we explore both attempts to regularise status and decisions for not attempting to do this. The chapter shows the ways in which motives, strategies and experiences varied and that there was a country of origin, ethnicity and gender dimension to these variations.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0004
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
This chapter focuses on the working lives of undocumented migrants. In particular it explores the constant juxtaposition of working lives with irregularity in five main areas: job search and routes ...
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This chapter focuses on the working lives of undocumented migrants. In particular it explores the constant juxtaposition of working lives with irregularity in five main areas: job search and routes into employment; jobs and sectors of employment; terms and conditions of work and the precarious nature of employment; experiences of work within and outside of the ethnic enclave; and workplace relations. For the most part work is insecure, with poor terms and conditions, including long and unsocial hours without overtime payments. Work was mostly for employers or managers from the same ethnic and/or linguistic group in some of the most informal parts of the economy. However, being undocumented does not mean a total absence of agency and the chapter shows how undocumented migrants are able to make incremental improvements to their working lives by adopting particular tactics in terms of skills acquisition, job mobility and even geographical mobility.Less
This chapter focuses on the working lives of undocumented migrants. In particular it explores the constant juxtaposition of working lives with irregularity in five main areas: job search and routes into employment; jobs and sectors of employment; terms and conditions of work and the precarious nature of employment; experiences of work within and outside of the ethnic enclave; and workplace relations. For the most part work is insecure, with poor terms and conditions, including long and unsocial hours without overtime payments. Work was mostly for employers or managers from the same ethnic and/or linguistic group in some of the most informal parts of the economy. However, being undocumented does not mean a total absence of agency and the chapter shows how undocumented migrants are able to make incremental improvements to their working lives by adopting particular tactics in terms of skills acquisition, job mobility and even geographical mobility.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0005
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
This chapter provides insights into the experiences, businesses and business practices of minority ethnic employers from migrant backgrounds. Although we review their routes into business, our main ...
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This chapter provides insights into the experiences, businesses and business practices of minority ethnic employers from migrant backgrounds. Although we review their routes into business, our main focus is on their employment practices, including the recruitment of workers; the impact of immigration controls, including sanctions on those practices, where relevant, the reasons for employing undocumented migrants and the ways in which ethnicity and perceptions of workers based on stereotypes informed those practices. The chapter argues that motives for employing undocumented migrants are complex and that employers consider the obligations of family, kinship and geography, the sense of political solidarity and their need for trust within the employment relationship. It questions the usefulness of the sanctions regime in relation to employer practices. The chapter shows how some employers held stereotyped views of what constitutes a good worker and which workers were to be trusted. In recruitment a reliance on social networks replicated and cemented existing social relationships, so that labour forces were produced and reproduced around particular social categories, including ethnicity and gender.Less
This chapter provides insights into the experiences, businesses and business practices of minority ethnic employers from migrant backgrounds. Although we review their routes into business, our main focus is on their employment practices, including the recruitment of workers; the impact of immigration controls, including sanctions on those practices, where relevant, the reasons for employing undocumented migrants and the ways in which ethnicity and perceptions of workers based on stereotypes informed those practices. The chapter argues that motives for employing undocumented migrants are complex and that employers consider the obligations of family, kinship and geography, the sense of political solidarity and their need for trust within the employment relationship. It questions the usefulness of the sanctions regime in relation to employer practices. The chapter shows how some employers held stereotyped views of what constitutes a good worker and which workers were to be trusted. In recruitment a reliance on social networks replicated and cemented existing social relationships, so that labour forces were produced and reproduced around particular social categories, including ethnicity and gender.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0007
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
Being undocumented has consequences in every sphere of life. This chapter focusses on the ways in which undocumented migrants experience the exclusions of their status and develop strategies for ...
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Being undocumented has consequences in every sphere of life. This chapter focusses on the ways in which undocumented migrants experience the exclusions of their status and develop strategies for managing these status based exclusions. In earlier chapters we explored the impact of status on employment and social lives and activities, in this chapter we first focus on the impact of being undocumented in relation to access to and use of public services looking in particular at health, welfare benefits and police services. We then examine the ways in which status intersects with other spheres where documents are always or often required, notably housing, participation in educational opportunities, travel, opening a bank account and even to obtain a driving license. The chapter shows how the impact if status varies, affecting people in different ways, within different settings and it results in a range of different responses to contexts and individual circumstances, as well as diversity in lived experiences, including levels of fear, anxiety, trust and disclosure.Less
Being undocumented has consequences in every sphere of life. This chapter focusses on the ways in which undocumented migrants experience the exclusions of their status and develop strategies for managing these status based exclusions. In earlier chapters we explored the impact of status on employment and social lives and activities, in this chapter we first focus on the impact of being undocumented in relation to access to and use of public services looking in particular at health, welfare benefits and police services. We then examine the ways in which status intersects with other spheres where documents are always or often required, notably housing, participation in educational opportunities, travel, opening a bank account and even to obtain a driving license. The chapter shows how the impact if status varies, affecting people in different ways, within different settings and it results in a range of different responses to contexts and individual circumstances, as well as diversity in lived experiences, including levels of fear, anxiety, trust and disclosure.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0008
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
This concluding chapter returns to the themes discussed in the book, to capture the essence of what makes undocumented migrants
tolerate their lives on the margins and it questions whose interests ...
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This concluding chapter returns to the themes discussed in the book, to capture the essence of what makes undocumented migrants
tolerate their lives on the margins and it questions whose interests are served. It reflects on why undocumented migration occurs, what the imperatives are that drive it and what its affects are on migrants themselves, on their networks, on those who employ them and on society more generally. The chapter focusses on four key themes. First, we consider the use, by both undocumented migrants and minority ethnic employers, of resources and networks, taking account of the discussion in Chapters 4-6 on employment and social networks. Having reflected on how individuals survive and at what costs, we then turn to a re-examination of the policy aims and the consequences of migration policies reflecting on Chapters 2, 3 and 7. We consider concepts of risk taking and risk avoidance among undocumented migrants in their economic and social lives, before finally turning to a reflection on the impact of class, gender, language, skills and ethnicity on the lives of those without status.Less
This concluding chapter returns to the themes discussed in the book, to capture the essence of what makes undocumented migrants
tolerate their lives on the margins and it questions whose interests are served. It reflects on why undocumented migration occurs, what the imperatives are that drive it and what its affects are on migrants themselves, on their networks, on those who employ them and on society more generally. The chapter focusses on four key themes. First, we consider the use, by both undocumented migrants and minority ethnic employers, of resources and networks, taking account of the discussion in Chapters 4-6 on employment and social networks. Having reflected on how individuals survive and at what costs, we then turn to a re-examination of the policy aims and the consequences of migration policies reflecting on Chapters 2, 3 and 7. We consider concepts of risk taking and risk avoidance among undocumented migrants in their economic and social lives, before finally turning to a reflection on the impact of class, gender, language, skills and ethnicity on the lives of those without status.
Philip M. Rosoff
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027496
- eISBN:
- 9780262320764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027496.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness ...
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This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness dictates that similar cases should be similarly treated, and morally irrelevant facts about people should be exactly that: irrelevant. However, it seems difficult to imagine (for example) that undocumented immigrants would be offered the same benefits under a comprehensive and rationed healthcare system as citizens, due to public opposition. On the other hand, the “better angels of our nature” have occasionally prevailed against apparent dominant opinion, such as in the case of civil rights. However, it is acknowledged that the tyranny of the majority may have to be mollified if that would ensure acceptance of comprehensive healthcare reform.Less
This chapter discusses the politically and morally contentious issue of whether strict fairness and justice in a rationing system can be accomplished in a democracy like the United States. Fairness dictates that similar cases should be similarly treated, and morally irrelevant facts about people should be exactly that: irrelevant. However, it seems difficult to imagine (for example) that undocumented immigrants would be offered the same benefits under a comprehensive and rationed healthcare system as citizens, due to public opposition. On the other hand, the “better angels of our nature” have occasionally prevailed against apparent dominant opinion, such as in the case of civil rights. However, it is acknowledged that the tyranny of the majority may have to be mollified if that would ensure acceptance of comprehensive healthcare reform.
Jonathan Maupin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813060804
- eISBN:
- 9780813050874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060804.003.0012
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Anti-immigrant discourses persistently construct images of undocumented immigrants as a disruptive force in almost every aspect of American society. Yet, the extent to which these discourses reflect ...
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Anti-immigrant discourses persistently construct images of undocumented immigrants as a disruptive force in almost every aspect of American society. Yet, the extent to which these discourses reflect measurable impacts as opposed to perceived threats is uncertain. This chapter analyzes the representation and perception of undocumented immigrants as a threat to the U.S. healthcare system, and the state of Arizona in particular. Focusing on popular media coverage of anti-immigrant senate proposals regarding healthcare in Arizona, this chapter first analyzes the ways in which arguments in support and against the bills construct undocumented immigrants as disruptive threats to specific domains of U.S. society. Second, this chapter compares national public opinion polls of immigrants’ disruptive threats on the U.S. healthcare system with those of medical professionals in Arizona. These analyses highlight the tenuous relationship between perceptions of disruption and measurable impacts, and how these differences may influence healthcare delivery.Less
Anti-immigrant discourses persistently construct images of undocumented immigrants as a disruptive force in almost every aspect of American society. Yet, the extent to which these discourses reflect measurable impacts as opposed to perceived threats is uncertain. This chapter analyzes the representation and perception of undocumented immigrants as a threat to the U.S. healthcare system, and the state of Arizona in particular. Focusing on popular media coverage of anti-immigrant senate proposals regarding healthcare in Arizona, this chapter first analyzes the ways in which arguments in support and against the bills construct undocumented immigrants as disruptive threats to specific domains of U.S. society. Second, this chapter compares national public opinion polls of immigrants’ disruptive threats on the U.S. healthcare system with those of medical professionals in Arizona. These analyses highlight the tenuous relationship between perceptions of disruption and measurable impacts, and how these differences may influence healthcare delivery.
Sam Grabowska and John Doering-White
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061603
- eISBN:
- 9780813051222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061603.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Drawing from ethnographic and archaeological data collected by The Undocumented Migration Project in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this chapter investigates the ways in which unauthorized ...
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Drawing from ethnographic and archaeological data collected by The Undocumented Migration Project in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this chapter investigates the ways in which unauthorized border-crossing is remembered. The memories are posited as heterotopic, that is, as institutional counter-sites with various actors who have competing aims, different experiences, and polarized socio-political positions. Grabowska and Doering-White highlight how identity, landscape, and materiality oscillate while memory works through personal recollection, cultural construction, and analytic interpretation. Grabowska and Doering-White show, for example, how artifacts can recall stories that migrants forget, and how the memories of border-crossers can equally contest the agendas of humanitarians and anti-immigration militias. In so doing, Grabowska and Doering-White seek to add variation to the border-crossing narrative while self-reflexively considering the strength of a mixed methodology.Less
Drawing from ethnographic and archaeological data collected by The Undocumented Migration Project in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this chapter investigates the ways in which unauthorized border-crossing is remembered. The memories are posited as heterotopic, that is, as institutional counter-sites with various actors who have competing aims, different experiences, and polarized socio-political positions. Grabowska and Doering-White highlight how identity, landscape, and materiality oscillate while memory works through personal recollection, cultural construction, and analytic interpretation. Grabowska and Doering-White show, for example, how artifacts can recall stories that migrants forget, and how the memories of border-crossers can equally contest the agendas of humanitarians and anti-immigration militias. In so doing, Grabowska and Doering-White seek to add variation to the border-crossing narrative while self-reflexively considering the strength of a mixed methodology.
Carlos Kevin Blanton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300190328
- eISBN:
- 9780300210422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300190328.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
George I. Sánchez was a restrictionist who believed in curbing undocumented immigration. He directed academic research on the immigration issue that resulted in the Saunders-Leonard report, a study ...
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George I. Sánchez was a restrictionist who believed in curbing undocumented immigration. He directed academic research on the immigration issue that resulted in the Saunders-Leonard report, a study that caused a great deal of internal division among Mexican Americans. Like other Mexican American leaders, Sánchez was a mass of contradictions with regard to the issue of undocumented immigrants. He believed that the immigrants themselves were to be pitied and cared for, while those who exploited them for pennies a day were the true villains. Ultimately, unfettered capitalism was the main problem for Sánchez. Also at this time, Sánchez's alimony battle with his first spouse took a surprising turn with devastating repercussions for him in later years.Less
George I. Sánchez was a restrictionist who believed in curbing undocumented immigration. He directed academic research on the immigration issue that resulted in the Saunders-Leonard report, a study that caused a great deal of internal division among Mexican Americans. Like other Mexican American leaders, Sánchez was a mass of contradictions with regard to the issue of undocumented immigrants. He believed that the immigrants themselves were to be pitied and cared for, while those who exploited them for pennies a day were the true villains. Ultimately, unfettered capitalism was the main problem for Sánchez. Also at this time, Sánchez's alimony battle with his first spouse took a surprising turn with devastating repercussions for him in later years.
Jimmy Patiño
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635569
- eISBN:
- 9781469635576
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635569.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter introduces the main ideas, people and preceding history of the deportation regime, Mexican American activism, and outline of the book chapters. It explains what led the small print shop ...
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This chapter introduces the main ideas, people and preceding history of the deportation regime, Mexican American activism, and outline of the book chapters. It explains what led the small print shop owner Herman Baca, and his mentors Bert Corona and Soledad “Chole” Alatorre, to project the Chicano movement toward immigration issues. The chapter then explores how the development of racial capitalism—from the acquisition of indigenous land, the use of a system of chattel slavery, and recruitment of displace migrant workers—formed the basis for a deportation system of immigration in the U.S. The chapter concludes with an exploration of the chapter themes that will be shared throughout by exploring a brief history of struggle among ethnic Mexican activists in the United States for immigrant rights from the 1930s through the 1980s.Less
This chapter introduces the main ideas, people and preceding history of the deportation regime, Mexican American activism, and outline of the book chapters. It explains what led the small print shop owner Herman Baca, and his mentors Bert Corona and Soledad “Chole” Alatorre, to project the Chicano movement toward immigration issues. The chapter then explores how the development of racial capitalism—from the acquisition of indigenous land, the use of a system of chattel slavery, and recruitment of displace migrant workers—formed the basis for a deportation system of immigration in the U.S. The chapter concludes with an exploration of the chapter themes that will be shared throughout by exploring a brief history of struggle among ethnic Mexican activists in the United States for immigrant rights from the 1930s through the 1980s.
