Newsletter #4 Footprints
Working Group: Latinos in the United States
No. 43, March 2018
The latest setback suffered by the Dreamers, now at the hands of even those who had sworn to champion their right to belong to this nation to the bitter end, serves as a benchmark for understanding at least three things: the kind of country the United States has become in the last year; that natural demographic diversity is being suppressed by decree; and that in politics, promises, regardless of their origin, are merely ideological "entertainment" to achieve other ends. As never before, immigrants—both as a concept and as human beings—have received direct and indiscriminate attacks in these first 365 days of the new administration, attacks they themselves become aware of immediately thanks to new communication platforms. This contrasts sharply with other eras when decrees and, in general, messages of racial hatred took longer to reach them, though they were delivered with the same visceral intensity as today. The anti-immigrant experience against Italians, Irish, Asians, and Mexicans was rife with such examples.
This current rejection from those in power has simultaneously created an articulated resistance to defend not only a legitimate cause, but, as the Dreamers have demonstrated, the fight to avoid being excluded from the only country they recognize as home, to which they arrived as minors without really knowing where they were going and where by their own right they have decided to continue defining their future and their existence.
Summary
- Young migrants/ USA/The threatened American essence of the Dreamers
- Undocumented immigrants/USA/ICE Director issues new warning to undocumented immigrants
- Interview/ Deportations/ USA/“We are persecuted by an unjust system”: activist for the
- Immigrant rights activist speaks from the church where she has taken refuge in Colorado
- Migrant poverty/USA/California immigrants hardest hit by landslide
- Language/USA/2018, the future of Spanish and Hispanic identity in the United States
- Socialization/USA/The worst states for Hispanics to live in the United States
- Trump in power/USA/Trump defends immigration proposal in first State of the Union address
- Nuyorican/USA Literature/After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask
- again, what does it mean to belong
- Music/USA/Patricia Vonne captures her Latin heritage with the new album "Viva Bandolera"
