Does Mexico - U.S. Border Immigration Really Bother You?

Aileen El-Kadi, Assistant Professor and Director of Brazilian Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso

Few other social phenomena, like the so-called new immigration, are transforming American society in its social, political, and economic spheres. Actually, in a few decades the United States will be the only ‘postindustrial’ economic power with ethnic minorities approaching nearly half the total population. Is this ‘new’ immigration replicating the mechanisms of the large-scale immigration of a century ago, or is this a new phenomenon, requiring new categories of understanding and new policy responses? How is our society responding to Hispanic immigration? Do you believe illegal immigration is a crime and, therefore, migrants are criminals? In this talk El-Kadi will refer to the case of Mexican immigration to the United States and focus on aspects of the recent immigration experience as well as explicit and subtle anti-immigrant sentiment in the US. This event meets the 5 x 10 Identity requirement, OFYE.

Co-sponsors: Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology and Anthropology