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In Racial “Triangulation” Revisited, Alexander elucidates the implications of racialization and the rigid role Latino workers have filled in the service industry. She explains the…
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Identity construction has never been a simple topic of discussion. There are so many competing personal, societal and geographical factors that tie into an individual’s…
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) or UN Migration Agency held a Global Migration Film Festival in December 2016 and will be holding one in…
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The layers of privilege and racialization in the service industry through “front of the house” and “back of the house” positions illustrate how the privileged…
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In The Positionality of the Latino– America’s Migrant Worker, Dr. Isabella Alexander dissects the various components that go into classifying how positively or negatively certain…
![The Kitchen and the State](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
“The managers, they don’t have all those boxes to check [in reference to my survey]. They see race simple. American and not.” – Shirong (32,…
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Francesco Vacchiano’s article “On Frequent Flyers and Boat People: Notes on Europe, Crisis, and Human Mobility” raised many interesting points and critiques on the European…
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As a member of the Latinx community, I had so many different thoughts on the various points Dr. Alexander highlighted in her publication. There is…
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The article “On Frequent Flyers and Boat People: Notes on Europe, Crisis, and Human Mobility” draws attention to the growing divide between displaced peoples and…
![Front vs Back of House Work and "Whiteness"](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
An interesting common thread between the two articles was “this idea of labor without citizenship, as well as an uncanny recurrence of imperial formations that…
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