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Much of the debate on countries such as America, those in the European Union, and Australia accepting refugees is contingent on the underlying question: is…
![American-ness](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![A House Divided](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
!["If you're not American, then you're Mexican"-Shirong](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![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…
![Social and Structural Limitations in the Workforce](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/10/restaurant-450x140.jpg)
According to the 2015 census there are 55.4 million people identifying as Hispanic. This number excludes all…
![Perception is Almost as Important as Truth](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
In Francesco Vacchiano’s piece, On Frequent Flyers and Boat People, Vacchiano addresses the narrative that there are too many bodies crossing borders, and how this…
![The Commodity Identity: Labor Exploitation and Convict Lease Parallels](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/09/french-street-432x140.jpg)
One of the phrases that really resonated with me from this week’s reading on Migrant “Illegality” in the United States was the stigmatization of Mexican…
![It's Never Too Late](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The topic of “migration” and “immigration” has been seen as a “problem” throughout history, especially in the past few decades, in the United States and…
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