La Santa Muerte and How She Might Immigrate
A startling new trend in Mexico, our neighboring country, is death worship. While death worship may conjure up images of sacrificial acts or some kind of morbid fascination with the dead, […]
Category Archives: Culture
Talking Walls
Pilsen, Chicago. Formerly a Lithuanian neighborhood, Pilsen has been home to many Mexican immigrants for the past 60 years. It is undoubtedly full of many of the community’s triumphs and […]
The Immigration Paradox: America in a Social Trap
Seven years ago, Emmy® Award winning filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez sought to uncover the root-cause of mass, unauthorized migration in the United States, which led her to produce “one of […]
Immigrant Rights are Human Rights Too!
Through an independent study at Occidental College, I’ve focused on the discourse of immigration. Although this presentation focuses on the United States, I have taken what I learned from my […]
Occidental College Alternative Spring Break Program: Voices of LA
This year Occidental College’s Alternative Spring Break program sought out to focus on the issues surrounding immigration and citizenship in the city of Los Angeles. The objectives of the program […]
Why Care At All?
Why we should be sympathetic to (undocumented) immigrants who are already in the US? I may be preaching to the choir, but I think it will be helpful to present […]
Hidden Beauty
Art and revolution go hand in hand. A great example of this is David Siqueiros’ America Tropical. Siqueiros completed this mural in 1932, but because it was so controversial for […]
Why is the Preservation of Cultures Important?
Two days ago a professor from Occidental College, Thaddeus Russell of the American Studies Department, asked the students participating in the Alternative Spring Break a pressing question, “Why […]
A new emerging marriage trend could be threatening, but for whom?
Recently, in some immigrant communities internet marriages have become increasingly popular. Although this new practice of social arrangements between two people who recite their vows through a computer screen may […]
The Immigration Paradox: Let’s Have a Conversation
Five months since its release, the feature documentary film The Immigration Paradox has posed many important questions worth considering about the contentious topic of immigration. Director and producer Lourdes Lee […]
Immigration Talk 