AS AM 2 Lecture 9: Emergent Divides
14 Jan 2019
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Immigration status and its relationship to basic rights and opportunities. Political participation, economic life, educational opportunities, and family reunification. Living constantly in the shadow of the law, falling deeper into illegality. The relative ease with which money and wealthy people traverse the world. For the wealthy and educated, there is already a system of open borders. The "optional" transnational family, especially among asian professionals. "parachute children" children enrolled in suburban schools in the. U. s. , and affluent children at american and european universities. Ethnic economies that link privileged and less privileged immigrants together. Skilled, professional families and their access to lower-paid co-ethnics. A model minority and an underclass, all within and ethnic group. Berkeley, brown, stanford, and harvard in the late 1980s" the more recent case against harvard in 2018. Low-wage work in the ethnic economies -- restaurants, laundries, house- keeping. Federal labor low cannot protect people who were out of status --> low- wage.
