Bachata! The Immigration Story of an Increasingly Popular Dominican Genre
Bachata is one of my friend Maya’s favorite guilty pleasures. She and I turn up the volume when it comes on the radio, we listen to it when we’re getting […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
The “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game”
You’ll never guess what’s going down at University of Texas’s West Mall on Wednesday… It’s essentially a game, a game called the “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game.” If you need to […]
Day Laborers: Ignored, Understudied, and Misunderstood
When most Americans think about day laborers or nonstandard employment, the image that first comes to their mind is a group of undocumented men standing on the side of a […]
Polleros: There’s Big Money Behind Unauthorized Immigration
The U.S. Mexico border is now the most militarized border in the world between two countries at peace. Since 9/11, the U.S. has poured money into securing its southwest border, nearly doubling […]
Immigration Talk 