Relief Dollars: U.S. Policies toward Central Americans, 1980s to Present

Hernández, Ester

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“…People fled the hardships brought upon by more than a century of oligarchy and military dictatorships that escalated into a civil war led by social movements under the umbrella organization of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Booth et al., 2006; Menjívar, 2000). The majority that fled from El Salvador migrated toward the United States, with many arriving in Los Angeles (Hernandez, 2006). A depiction of this process is found in a 1988 corrido , a musical ballad, performed by a Mexican norteño band, Los Tigres del Norte (2001).…”

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Intra-Latina/Latino encounters: Salvadoran and Mexican struggles and Salvadoran–Mexican subjectivities in Los Angeles

Osuna

2015

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In the last 30 years, the mass transnational migration of Salvadorans and Mexicans to the U.S. from their countries due to changes in the world capitalist system, and its specific effects on their homelands, has made Los Angeles the most Mexican and Salvadoranpopulated city in the United States. Within the everyday struggles of the working class in Los Angeles, an internal antagonism between these two Latina/Latino communities has developed that has divided them yet, dialectically, a sense of solidarity between them vis-à-vis the dominant racialized regime of the U.S. has also emerged. This paper investigates this dialectical interplay of tension and solidarity between Salvadoran and Mexican communities in Los Angeles through qualitative interviews with 20 young adults who are children of mixed Salvadoran-Mexican migrant families. This paper will contextualize their families' experiences within a larger theoretical, analytical, and historical framework of the global capitalist system and recent transnational processes, including neoliberalism, migration, and the racialization of Latina/Latinos in the U.S. The exploration of the participants' families and their relationships to a series of structural and cultural factors that ground both communities, such as racialized labor market competition, migration, and national belonging, may assist in explaining this dialectical interplay of tension and solidarity.

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Section: Historical and Theoretical Contextualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intra-Latina/Latino encounters: Salvadoran and Mexican struggles and Salvadoran–Mexican subjectivities in Los Angeles

Osuna

2015

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Relief Dollars: U.S. Policies toward Central Americans, 1980s to Present

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Intra-Latina/Latino encounters: Salvadoran and Mexican struggles and Salvadoran–Mexican subjectivities in Los Angeles

Intra-Latina/Latino encounters: Salvadoran and Mexican struggles and Salvadoran–Mexican subjectivities in Los Angeles

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