SOCIOL 131AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Vigilante, Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965, White Hispanic And Latino Americans
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Latinos: intermarriage rates among latinos are higher than among blacks, but lower than among asians, but latino out-marriage less likely to be with whites. Evidence that latinos are racialized: latinos (mexicans in particular) are constructed / perceived as foreign but also as illegal or undocumented, war on immigrants , demonization, the rise of the latino threat narrative , discrimination, socioeconomic position, self identification. Latinos constructed as foreign : like asian americans (but unlike european immigrants) , mexican americans assumed to be foreign born (jim nez) 1965-present: 1965 immigration act (aka hart celler, first attempted by u. s. government to place numerical limit on number of latin americans allowed to immigrate to the. Militarization of u. s. / mexico border: consequences, border enforcement costs have increased, increased the number of undocumented immigrants in the. U. s. by on estimate: 1990: 3. 5 million undocumented immigrants, 2007: 12 million undocumented immigrants, 2016: 11 million undocumented immigrants, increased the danger of the journey, increased vigilantism.
