Mexicanos y Latinos en E.U.

The State of Latino Chicago, This Is Home Now

Metropolitan Chicago is undergoing a profound transformation from a region dominated politically and demographically by European Americans to one in which no single racial or ethnic group will be the majority. Long a preeminent center of manufacturing and trade, Chicago is known as the city that works. In The State of Latino Chicago, we examine the status of the region’s fastest growing and, arguably, hardest working population. In this first edition of what will be a series of regular reports we present an overview of the contributions of Latinos to the region’s economic vitality. We examine both the assets and contributions that Latinos bring to economic and civic life and the problems and challenges that must be addressed if Latino Chicagoans are to realize their full potential. As will be argued in these pages, the future prosperity and well-being of the entire region depend on the well-being of each of its communities. Despite the recent arrival of many, the Latino presence in Chicago is well established. Latinos are here to stay; they now are the largest racial or ethnic minority group in the region. From this we draw the report’s subtitle: This Is Home Now.

Mexican Transnational Lives and Ethnic Borders within the USA:Barrios in Chicago

Since at least the 20’s and 30’s of the twentieth century, Mexican immigrant population has concentrated to create a very notorious kind of social enclaves in the USA. Mexican barrios in cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles and Chicago have been notorious for their colorfullness and their militancy both against “white assimilationist practices” and “Anglo-Saxon or nativist proposals of exclusion” of immigrants in general into the mainstream US society. This paper deals with how urban spaces have been appropriated and re-signified by various groups of Mexican immigrants in the Chicago Area, and have diversified themselves from other “Latino” identities and enclaves within the same urban area at different stages in time. Four such barrios are discussed, contrasted and analyzed in the paper. Some of the policy design implications for local, federal and Mexican governments are discussed, along with some of the institutions that define transnational lives for Mexican communities and families

Estudio sobre mujeres indígenas migrantes, a partir del caso San Quintín y Tijuana en Baja California.

 

Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status

 

La Voz de los Actores. Cuatro relatos.

 

The Politics of Mexican-origin leaders: implications for 2008& beyond.

 

CHICANO STUDIES,-1970-1984

 

Observations on the 'New' Chicano History:Historiography of the 1970s

 

“Crecen negocios y empresarios latinos en EU y California.”

 

Comunidades transnacionales e iniciativas para fortalecer las relaciones con las comunidades mexicanas en los Estados Unidos

 

Mexican Policy & Émigré Communities in the U.S.

Analisis de las politicas del gobierno mexicano respecto a su diaspora. La política de México hacia la emigración y su diáspora en EEUU ha cambiado repetidamente desde la Revolución. Inicialmente, los gobiernos mexicanos intentaron frenar la migración e inducir la repatriación de los emigrados. Este objetivo se logró substancialmente durante la Gran Depresión. Pero entre 1942 y 1964, México colaboró con EEUU para canalizar migrantes de nuevo al norte y trató de prolongar este arreglo. Cuando éste se canceló, México buscó su restauración por toda una década. En 1975, México repudió la búsqueda de un nuevo programa migratorio y mantuvo esta postura públicamente por los próximos 25 años. Durante este período, México sostuvo su primer diálogo significativo con ciudadanos estadounidenses de ascendencia mexicana. Desde 1990, el enfoque de la política mexicana se ha concentrado de nuevo en los migrantes, pero ahora básicamente aceptando su permanencia en EEUU. Actualmente, México quiere reforzar vínculos con sus migrantes y promover su organización. Además, desde el 2000, la administración Fox busca de nuevo un acuerdo migratorio, con la esperanza de restaurar la 'circularidad' en la migración futura.

¿Somos “migrantes”?

 

U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS:Permeable Borders, Transnational Relations

This report presents findings from a twenty month-long project focusing on transnational challenges and opportunities in the multidimensional relationship between Mexico and the United States, ranging from migration, security, and cross-border politics to governance and institution building. The core of the project was a series of discussions among leaders from diverse sectors and locations in the United States and Mexico. These discussions, conducted in Spanish and English and led by Dr. Dresser, were remarkably frank and open and yielded a rich set of observations and policy implications. The findings reflect these discussions as well as the authors’ own analysis of recent thinking on transnationalism. The work on this project had the second salutary consequence of fostering the development of a North American network of experts, politicians, educators, and business, labor and community leaders interested in exploring transnational issues together and committed to influencing policy choices. Networks such as these are crucial in the current environment where issues of border security and unauthorized migration are highly sensitive political issues in both Mexico and the U.S. and in relations between the two countries.

Incorporating in the United States and Mexico: Mexican Immigrant Mobilization and Organization in Four American Cities

This work analyzes the political incorporation of Mexican immigrants into both their home and host countries through the examination of the origins, dynamics and patterns of action of first-generation Mexican-American organizations in four American cities: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Political incorporation has traditionally implied that immigrants abandon their political interests in their country of origin. Because immigrant political incorporation is often tightly linked to and influenced by incorporation or reincorporation into the homeland, these two processes should be studied together. The work presented is based on a large and unique data set based on extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews in the four cities. Among the major findings are: (1) Mexican organizations in the four cities were created from the 1990s onwards in reaction to conditions and incentives in both the United States and Mexico, casting doubt on transnational approaches that attribute the emergence of these organizations to technological developments and other similar factors; (2) convergence in the types of organizations Mexicans have established is explained by explicit home country policies oriented towards mobilizing and organizing them, while variations are explained by immigrants’ interactions with the structures of opportunity they have encountered in the cities where they have settled; and (3) mobilization towards Mexico has had a positive effect on domestic mobilization as well, challenging the view that reestablishing ties to their homeland diminishes immigrant’s interest in their host country. However, homeland mobilization may have the negative effect of dividing immigrants along Mexican party lines.