Borderlands

Abrego, Leisy Janet. "“I can’t go to college because I don’t have papers”: Incorporation patterns of Latino undocumented youth." Latino Studies 4.3 (2006): 212-231. Leisy Janet Abrego is an associate professor at UCLA, in Latina/o Studies, Central Americans in the U.S., Gender, Families, Immigration Laws in Everyday Life. Some of her other work include “Legitimacy, social identity, and the mobilization of law: The effects of Assembly Bill 540 on undocumented students in California”, “Legal…

“The role of education is to teach students about the unique and exceptional historical events that made the United States of America the greatest nation humanity has ever seen.” This statement, although many would like to believe in it, is a lie. For centuries Americans have declared the United States “the greatest nation in the world,” “leader of the free world,” a place of “life, liberty, and happiness,” a place where anyone could achieve the “American dream.” This mindset, is the belief of…

The United States is a county that has many cultures mixed together. For example, Asian, European, Latino, and Native American. Because of the freedom in this country, more people are coming to the United States seeking for settlement. The United States is a powerful country, and the majority of the people living in the United States are having a peaceful life. This ideal life has been seen by other citizens from different countries. Some people have worked really hard to fulfill their American…

The Strength to Rise Above Gender Roles on Mango Street The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a book about the obstacles Latin women encounter while residing on Mango Street. In their community, males dominate and women are treated as if they are inferior. A woman's merit is placed on her outward appearance, as well as her loyalty to the men in her life. Throughout The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros utilizes the first-person frame of reference, portraying her struggle to…

The Storm Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” relates the story of an affair. In it Kate Chopin delineates a view of human sexuality and love which would still be controversial today. “The Storm” draws a clear line between sex and love, one does not necessarily connect to the other and the forced connection, once severed, allows for happiness to be realized. It begins with Bibi (son) and Bobinot (father) at the general store. An ideal achieved is clearly established immediately with the line “Bobinot,…

The US/ Mexico borderlands are the site of a number of “flows” of goods, people, and ideas over the last century. The US is attempting to increase the “flow” of some goods such as food, but restricting others like illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The US has been trying to stop drug smugglers and illegal immigration by setting some policies. When Salinas became the president of Mexico, his number one priority was to stop drug trafficking and smuggling it into the US so both countries…

Students - OnlineCollege.org." OnlineCollege.org. Staff Writers, 11 Oct. 2013. Web. 19 Oct. 2016. Casselman, Ben. "Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Who You Think They Are."DataLab. FiveThirtyEight, 2014. Web. 25 Oct. 2016. Jauregui and Slate. "Texas Borderland Community Colleges And Views Regarding Undocumented Students: A Qualitative Study" csr.sagepub.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/content/11/2/183.full.pdf+html. SageJournals. Journal. 19 Oct 2016 Nguyen and Hoy, David and Zelideh. ""Jim…

Minimum wage is the lowest amount of money that a person can be paid. All the states and the cities can have their own minimum wages, but those wages have to be either more or equal to the federal minimum wage. In 2016, the federal minimum wage is $7.25. However, recently there has been calls for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $15. In particular, Bernie Sanders, candidate for 2016 presidential election, made the $15 minimum wage part of his campaign (Tokars). The aspect of making…

Immigration Act of 1917 as the beginning of these exclusions, but Grace Pena Delgado argues that this exclusion began in the preceding decades. In her essay “Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910”, Delgado explains how the border became a site of gender and sexual exclusion during this time period. These exclusionary policies began in the late nineteenth century and worked with the moral codes of the progressivists, who…

and throughout the early modern period, the Ottoman Empire of the Turks was in continual conflict with its European neighbors. In 1716, as part of an effort to protect British economic and political assets from this conflict in this trans-imperial borderland, Sir Edward Wortley Montagu was dispatched as ambassador to Istanbul. Accompanying him on the journey was his wife Mary, who would eventually become one of the most influential women in 18th century Europe. Montagu is a divisive figure due…