Description
For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit three short reviews during the semester. 1. Mexico, Border issues and immigration, United States foreign policy, and Latinx communities the article:-Mexico, US Foreign Policy, Border Issues and Latinx CommunitiesBorder Issues, Latinx Communities and US Foreign Policy:A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness (Sept. 2021) (Links to an external site.)A New Temporary Protected Status For Central America (Nov. 2021) (Links to an external site.)New Life in Laredo As the Border Reopens (Dec. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Abolish ICE! Fighting for Humanity over Profit in Immigration Policy (June 2019)An Immigration Courts Backlog Keeps Central American Youth in Legal Limbo (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)Biden’s New Immigration System Overlooks Mexican Refugees (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)Border Land, Border Water (Book Review) (July 2020) (Links to an external site.)Border Shutdowns: State Violence and Psychological Warfare Performed (March 2019) (Links to an external site.)Clouds at the Border: Threatened by the Wall (Sept. 2019)Colonial Migrants At the Heart of Empire (Book Review) (Sept. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Community Support and Creativity Are Key to Survival in the Rio Grande Valley (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)Exiliados, Refugiados, Desplazados: Children and Migration Across the Americas (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)From La Montaña, Guerrero to The Bronx: The Story of Victorio Hilario Guzmán (Jan. 2021)From Trump to Biden in Latin America (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Immigration Nation (Film Review)(Aug. 2020)Immigration Policy Must Look Beyond the Border (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)In a Washington State Prison, Latinos are Advocating for Mentorship and Education (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Informal Recyclers Fight for Survival in Gentrifying Brooklyn (Apr. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Latin American Immigrants in New York Face Covid-19 Crisis (Sept. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Life and Resistance for Migrant Families in the Rio Grande (Book Review) (June 2019) (Links to an external site.)Local Paper Covers Pandemic’s Impact in Queens (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)Magazuelans: How Venezuelan Americans Embraced Trump as Their Savior (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Meeting Cubans 4 Trump (Oct. 2020)Migrant Networks in the Pandemic (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)On the Front Lines of Trump’s Immigration War in the U.S. Heartland (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph (July 2019)Reopening Mass Influx Facilities Goes Against Biden Administration Promises (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Slow Burn, Humid Pitch: Cultivating Care While Livin’ La COVIDa Loca (Sept. 2020)The Border Crossed US: The Case for Opening the U.S.-Mexico Border (Book Review) (Oct. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Book Review) (Sept. 2019) (Links to an external site.)The Deadly Reverberations of U.S. Border Policy (Book Review) (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Deportation Machine (Book Review) (Sept. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Opportunistic Border Logic of the Pandemic (May 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Stain that Mardi Gras Covers Up: Worker Vulnerability in New Orleans (Feb. 2020)They Are Concentration Camps—and They Are Also Prisons (June 2019)Undoing Trump-Era Policies is Not Enough to Transform the Immigration System (March 2021)Unheard, Overlooked, Exposed (Dec. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)U.S. Asylum Law is a Biopolitical Crisis (Book Review) (June 2020)U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America Still a Repeat of the Past (Dec. 2021) (Links to an external site.)U.S. Policy Toward Central America Continues Legacy of Displacement (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)“What better function for art at this time than as a voice for the voiceless”: The Work of Chicano Artist Malaquías Montoya (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)Mexico:23 Years of Impunity for Perpetrators of Acteal Massacre (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)A Labor Spring for Mexico’s Maquilas? (March 2019)A License to Pollute at Fortuna Silver Mines in Oaxaca (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)”A Project for Life” in Mexico City (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)As Mexican Pork Industry Expands, Environmental Concerns Follow (Sept. 2020) (Links to an external site.)AMLO Pushes Ahead on Militarized Megaprojects (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)AMLO’s Crumbling Promise to Migrants (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)Blurring the Division Between Church and State in AMLO’s Mexico (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)El Chapo and Mexico’s Drug War Spectacle (March 2019) (Links to an external site.)Euphemisms of Violence: Child Migrants and the Mexican State (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)For Mexico’s Striking University Workers, A War of Attrition Over Public Education (July 2019)For Mexico City Housing Movement, Metro Collapse is the Latest Symptom of Structural Inequity (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)“Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion (Oct. 2019)Health and Economic Crisis in Mexico Hits Informal Sector Workers (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (Book Review) (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)In Mexico, the Threats and Failures of Pre-Trial Detention (Jan. 2020)Indigenous Communities in Mexico Take up Arms to Defend the Monarch Forest (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Julián Leyzaola’s Dangerous Plans for Tijuana (May 2019) (Links to an external site.)López Obrador’s Public Enemy Number One (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)Machista Media Get it Wrong on Feminist Protests in Mexico (Interview) (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Migrants on the Border (Oct. 2019)Maya Activist Groups Fight to Protect Indigenous Territorial Rights (Sept. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Mexican Police Who Massacred Guatemalan Migrants Get Their Guns from the U.S. (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Mexican Women Call on Government to End Violence (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)Mexico Bans Glysophate But Tolerates Other Agrochemicals (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)Mexico Labor Reform May not be Enough for Auto Logistics Workers (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)Mexico’s Fracking Impasse (Oct. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Mining Culture Wars Escalate in Oaxaca (Dec. 2019) (Links to an external site.)Narcos Mexico Is Not the Education We Need (Television Review) (March 2020)October 2 and the CIA in Mexico (Oct. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy (May 2019)Oaxaca Fisherwomen Organize to Protect Their Way of Life (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Pandemic Intensifies Women’s Struggle for Water in Oaxaca, Mexico (July 2020)Power and Spectacle on Mexico’s Southern Border (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Revisiting the Battle of Culiacán (Nov. 2019) (Links to an external site.)The Legacy of Samir Flores, One Year Later (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)The Rebirth of Mexico’s Electrical Workers (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)The Search for Answers in Mexico (Apr. 2020) (Links to an external site.)Today We Protest, Tomorrow We Strike (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)Translating the Fourth Transformation (Interview) (Apr. 2019) (Links to an external site.)Twenty-First Century Battlefields (Book Excerpt) (July 2019)
Explanation & Answer:
3 pages
Tags:
history
Latin America
congress
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
