Demographic Summary

This article discusses the issues that Mexican immigrants are presumed to be an “ethnically homogenous population” (Fox and Salgado pg1). The authors’s that the Mexican immigrant population is not only becoming more “geographically diverse, but also “increasingly multi-ethnic” (Fox and Salgado pg1). Many of the authors’s sub-claims connect economical, political, and social reason to why indigenous Mexicans are becoming their own ethnic group. For example, one of their sub-claims dispute that indigenous Mexicans have a difficult relationship with other Mexicans and also face difficulties in being accepting into American society. The authors support thus sub-claim by referring to historical relationships between indigenous Mexicans and other Mexicans in Mexico, as well as, using examples of indigenous Mexicans forming diasporic …show more content…
This article was composed by two authors, Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera- Salgado. The author, Jonathan Fox, teaches Latino studies at UCSC, and has published other works about Latinos. Gaspar Rivera- Salgado Gaspar Rivera Salgado is an assessor of Indigenous Binational Front (FIOB) and Director of Transnational Communities Program (Fox and Salgado pg1). Both these authors have previously worked together and written another article about indigenous mexicans. This article is for the more educated people because it contributes to the ongoing discussion of Mexican immigration being a multi-ethnic migration due to indigenous Mexicans difference compared to other Mexicans. A limitation of this article is that it was written over 12 years ago and might have some outdated information, but the biggest limitation is that it doesn’t not describe whether indigenous immigrants coming into the US have always had a need to identify different