This is an article that I found online in regards to Mexican immigrants incorporation policially into society. Incorporation of Mexican immigrants is crucial for many reasons. Our book talks about how many politicans would try to pretend to help them and really just use them for votes. This is similar to what happens today. This article talks about assimilation policies and the effects on immigrants. It says Mexicans in New York earn less than Mexicans in Los Angeles. This is because of a large population of Mexicans in one area such as Montebello and East Los Angeses. Do you agree with this article when it says that " the longer the stay in the US, the disadvantages
increased rather than diminished?"
-Devere Sanchez-
Here is the link:
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/8/3/6/0/p83605_index.html
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Assimilation is a huge part of American politics. In order to vote, you have to become a citizen. To answer you question, I do not know if it increases disadvantages or diminishes them the longer they stay. For one, if they stay longer, the chances of citizenship is increased. That helps with the assimilation process. I think that trying to melt into the pot does cause disadvantages, since it makes it even less likely there will be a united Latino bloc. There are advantages that citizens get that immigrants do not. That helps increase the likely hood of a disadvantage. The fact that Mexicans make more in LA then in NY is mostly due to the fact that the communities are much different. I look at it as an African American family trying to make it in Colfax or a white family trying to make it Compton. Those are highly unlikely due to the predjudice of each community. All in all, I would say that the longer the stay equals Mexicans losing their identity in both countries, which can lead to increased disadvantages. It also leads to isolation and feeling out of place in both lands that are supposed to be your home.
I agree with the comment that was left. I feel that it doesnt make latinos at a disadvantage but yet causes a stronger discriminating issue against those that are not US citizens. I also feel that since there are huge differences in population between the two areas that it plays a huge part of the prejiduce and pay in each community. As the generations extend, its only natural that they will assimilate, but i do feel that with time it becomes a "lesser issue" to the average public.
I think that being in the U.S. for a longer period of time plays an advantage for those immigrants. Once they are here longer they understand the system and they know more people and are able to organize and better their status in the job market or just in society.
I think that staying in the US longer would actually be an advantage. Immigrants if they are here they learn more about the system and the language which would seem to give them an edge over newly arriving immigrants. While they are more likely to gain citizenship and become involved in communities the longer they stay. It would seem to give them more support and advantages than taking away from them
According to Michael Smith author of "Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants" (he was featured in the video we watched on Grupo Union) who examined the adaptation of Mexican immigrants and the assimilation of their U.S.-born (or U.S.-raised) children in New York City, he makes the argument that systematic and significant contacts with the home country are a meaningful component of the second generation's experience growing up in America. Because the second generation also experienced a decline in social status, racism and gang violence they use their visits to the Mexico town as a "cultural resource" to regain their status. This book challenges that idea that transnational contacts are only relevant in the lives of the first generation but in fact impacts the children of Mexican immigrants significantly.
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