The issues of migration and labor have very complex definitions on the US-Mexico border and those definitions are based on two important aspects which are race and gender. Race in simple words is the social construction that defines a specific group of people with similar and different physical characteristics; and gender refers to the roles, identities and practices that society makes for each interpretation of the sexes. Being part of a specific race is one thing that an individual carries with him/her since birth and so as their gender they have to live with those characteristics and be able to fulfil their lives regardless of the challenges that arise in any moment. These two terms have a real importance on the issues of migration and labor
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All these communities that tend to reside in specific places in the United States tend to lack many things including money and that is one of the main reasons of why they start to move to different areas. One of the biggest examples is given by the author Castañeda in her article, “The history of Mexican Americans in this country is a history of violent dispossession, dislocation, and forced internal migration.” (Castañeda, 119) She refers to the results after the US-Mexico War where multiple residents were forced to move out of places like California, Texas and New Mexico due to the different acquisitions of Mexican territories by the United States. After this movement trouble really started because these moving residents started to get discriminated because they were considered to be illegal; when in reality they were the owners of those territories before anybody …show more content…
In this video we do not only see that but also the high risk that those women are targets of because the number of women that were kidnapped, sexually assaulted and assassinated increased dramatically after the maquiladoras started to function. The majority of the testimonies of these videos helps the audience in making a connection that the global economy and capitalism are things that were expanding uncontrollably generating more money to the United States companies, but at the same time generating more femicides in the immigrant
All these communities that tend to reside in specific places in the United States tend to lack many things including money and that is one of the main reasons of why they start to move to different areas. One of the biggest examples is given by the author Castañeda in her article, “The history of Mexican Americans in this country is a history of violent dispossession, dislocation, and forced internal migration.” (Castañeda, 119) She refers to the results after the US-Mexico War where multiple residents were forced to move out of places like California, Texas and New Mexico due to the different acquisitions of Mexican territories by the United States. After this movement trouble really started because these moving residents started to get discriminated because they were considered to be illegal; when in reality they were the owners of those territories before anybody …show more content…
In this video we do not only see that but also the high risk that those women are targets of because the number of women that were kidnapped, sexually assaulted and assassinated increased dramatically after the maquiladoras started to function. The majority of the testimonies of these videos helps the audience in making a connection that the global economy and capitalism are things that were expanding uncontrollably generating more money to the United States companies, but at the same time generating more femicides in the immigrant