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Margaret Mead was fond of saying that when speaking about another culture, it would be wise to imagine that someone from that culture was standing next to us. That advice is a good metaphor for what has in fact happened. Global... more
Margaret Mead was fond of saying that when speaking about another culture, it would be wise to imagine that someone from that culture was standing next to us. That advice is a good metaphor for what has in fact happened. Global technological and educational advances have brought both readers and writers into what used to be a closed purview of outside "experts." Today discourse across the north-south divide entails challenges to neocolonial approaches and assertions of rights—not only to basic resources and life chances, but also to describe as well as to determine roles, responsibilities, and eventual realities. Growing opportunities for collaboration are evident in a diverse array of cross-cultural partnerships, participatory action research, and community-based development models.
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Preface Contemporary America is undergoing massive demographic and economic changes. Our society is currently riding on a large wave of Baby Boom prosperity and productivity. This population group will retire in the beginning of the... more
Preface Contemporary America is undergoing massive demographic and economic changes. Our society is currently riding on a large wave of Baby Boom prosperity and productivity. This population group will retire in the beginning of the twenty-first century. ...
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Reseña de "Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States" de Wayne Cornelius, David Fitzgerald y Pedro Lewin Fischer (edits.) Migraciones Internacionales, Vol. 5, Núm. 1, enero-junio, 2009, pp. 231-234 El... more
Reseña de "Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States" de Wayne Cornelius, David Fitzgerald y Pedro Lewin Fischer (edits.) Migraciones Internacionales, Vol. 5, Núm. 1, enero-junio, 2009, pp. 231-234 El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, AC México
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... Introduction: North American Integration Paradoxes and Prospects. Journal article by Donal K Alper, Jame Loucky; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 26, 1996. ... Introduction: North American Integration: Paradoxes and... more
... Introduction: North American Integration Paradoxes and Prospects. Journal article by Donal K Alper, Jame Loucky; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 26, 1996. ... Introduction: North American Integration: Paradoxes and Prospects. by Donal K Alper , Jame Loucky. ...
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Migration of Maya refugees to the United States since the late 1970s affords the opportunity to study the consequences of life in a new environment on the growth of Maya children. The children of this study live in Indiantown, Florida,... more
Migration of Maya refugees to the United States since the late 1970s affords the opportunity to study the consequences of life in a new environment on the growth of Maya children. The children of this study live in Indiantown, Florida, and Los Angeles, California. Maya children between 4 and 14 years old (n = 240) were measured for height, weight, fatness, and muscularity. Overall, compared with reference data for the United States, the Maya children are, on average, healthy and well nourished. They are taller and heavier and carry more fat and muscle mass than Maya children living in a village in Guatemala. However, they are shorter, on average, than children of black, Mexican-American, and white ethnicity living in Indiantown. Children of Maya immigrants born in the United States tend to be taller than immigrant children born in Guatemala or Mexico. Families that invest economic and social resources in their children have taller children. More economic successful families have taller children. Migration theory and political economy theory from the social sciences are combined with plasticity theory and life history theory (parental investment) from biology to interpret these data.
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A pdf of the chapter is available by email from jmheyman@utep.edu . This review chapter looks at different kinds of organizations of and for immigrants that represent in some ways alternatives to the dominant power order. It looks at... more
A pdf of the chapter is available by email from jmheyman@utep.edu . This review chapter looks at different kinds of organizations of and for immigrants that represent in some ways alternatives to the dominant power order. It looks at different kinds of values, activities, compositions, funding, and organization, including a summary table of kinds of immigrant organizations. It argues that such immigrant organizations cannot be purely alternative to all kinds of power, and it looks at a case study of organizations addressing immigrant arrest and detention in France to see how the increasing legal regulation of these processes are both the objects of struggle by but also increasingly involve alternative organizations of human rights, legal defense, and detention conditions. But the chapter also argues that the core of alternative immigrant organizations is a set of values that contrast with both xenophobic nationalism and capitalist internationalism (cosmopolitanism from above). It pr...