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…
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…
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…
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…
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 managers, they don’t have all those boxes to check [in reference to my survey]. They see race simple. American and not.” – Shirong (32,…
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…
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…
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…
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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