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Deportation is also about those who stay

November 17, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

On Saturday, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Diane Guerrero, the Colombian actress who plays Maritza Ramos in “Orange Is the New Black.” It tells the story of how Guerrero lost her parents to deportation when she was barely 14, starting with her worst fears growing up: Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, civil rights, deportation, Diane Guerrero, immigration, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, politics

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Migration of the Innocents

June 9, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

A series of images of young children in a crowded US Border Patrol facility in Texas has been circulating the web since they leaked into conservative news and opinion website Breibart.com last week. The images show hundreds of immigrants—most of them Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan children and minors—shoved in windowless rooms as they await for instructions. In an article featured in WLRN (We Learn) titled “How Central American Kids Gave Us A Reality Check,” Miami-based journalist Tim Padget reports on this issue by mocking […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, immigrant children, immigration, politics

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All aboard with Joanna Dreby

March 31, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

There are many reasons to delight in Joanna Dreby’s writing. My favorite these days is her commitment to some kind of relational writing. In “How Today’s Immigration Enforcement Policies Impact Children, Families, and Communities: A View from the Ground,” Dreby uses a common social experience (i.e., that couples get divorced) to illustrate a more foreign situation (i.e., that undocumented immigrants get deported). In anticipating her readers’ lack of connection to immigrant families and their simultaneous sympathy for divorced families, Dreby successfully brings everyone […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, immigration, politics

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Our hidden search for homogeneity

January 13, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

I often avoid talking about race, class, and migration in public. People seem to take these topics as an opportunity to strengthen their beliefs, rather than to enter a discussion. (see “Breaking up the Echo” quoted in my first week of reading). A recent article in the New York Times opinion pages has taken my conviction a step further. In Does Immigration mean ‘France is Over’? Justin E. H. Smith suggests that people not only seek homogeneity in their own lives; they […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: beliefs, culture, diversity, immigration, migration, New York Times, racism, reading

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A Week of Reading: 23-30 September 2012

September 24, 2012 by fritztucker

From Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor 23 September 2012 While reading Tyler Anbinder’s book Five Points for a New York history class, I came across a quote from a Chinese-American, from the 1870′s. My eye was caught by the description of America as “the country of the wizards,” and Americans as wealthy “barbarians.” I was reminded of the year I spent in India and Nepal, where America continues to be viewed by many as the land of opportunity. The people I […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: immigration, orientalism, trans-nationalism

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Mobility: 16-22 Sept 2012 (ZiR)

September 17, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Assistant Editor 16 September 2012 I would like to begin this week of reading by calling attention to one of Kitty Calavita’s most recent books: Invitation to Law and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2010.) There, Calavita argues that legal constructions shape human behavior, and, in turn, human behavior shapes legal constructions. As I was reading her friendly “invitation,” I came to wonder if non-legal citizens can also shape the way that a country creates legal constructions. […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: beliefs, Hispanic, immigration, journalism, law, objectivity, sociology, war

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