HUMA 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Julia Alvarez, Dream Act, Acronym
23 Nov 2016
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Writes across genres: novels, children"s books, essays. She"s asking us to think about issues around the undocumented immigrants could have an affect on the children and how they perceive what is happening. Has grown rapidly in the last 40 years. Until 2013, mexico was the largest source country of immigration. Estimated that another 5-6 million mexicans reside in the us without documentation. Many travel across the us borer on foot, some are smuggles by coyotes (human traffickers) who charge fees of -. Reasons for leaving mexico: need for greater economic opportunity in us, fear of political persecution. We can think of mexican (im)migration as a labour diaspora: lack of income may lead to irrational and dangerous decisions of travelling to the us. Undocumented migrants (from all countries) contribute over billion per year to the us economy through state and federal taxes.
