Soc-29000 Immigration

Soc-29000 Immigration

Inequalityand Mexican Health Issues in the United States

• Alba, Richard and Nee, Victor. (2003) Remaking the American Mainstream.

This book includes the history of immigration to the United States and its major policies such as Naturalization Acts, Chinese Exclusion Act, Nation Origins Quota System and the Bracero Program enacted before 1965. The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican workers to the United States section will be useful for my research.

• Castanela, Xochitl and Zavella, Patricia “Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women Farmworkers in California” University of California, California Policy Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz.

This article discusses how Mexican are racialized in the United States specially the Mexican women.It also discusses how female farmworkers are at high risk for infectious diseases, chronic health conditions and sexual harassment.Undocumented andfear of deportation, female farmworkers usually do not seek for medical care and ended up getting sexually transmitted infections such as HIV through unprotected six with the male farmworkers. This article will help write how the Mexican women are racialized and sexualized in their communities.

• Galarneau, Charlene. (2013). “Farm Labor, Reproductive justice: Migrant women farmworkers in the US”. Health and Human Rights, Volume 15, No1.

This article analyses the reproductive justice concept. It discusses the injustices the farmworkers women face daily and how they are sexualized. This artice will help on identifies who the farmworkers are, where they come from and why.

• H. Edward,Frank R. Carrillo,and Yessenia Riveria. “Health Care-Seeking among Latino Immigrants: Blocked Access, Use of Traditional Medicine, and the Role of Religion”. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Volume 21, Number 3, August 2010, pp862-878

This article discusseshow uninsured Latino immigrants deal with their health care needs with the language barriers, poverty, and fear of deportation.Because of poverty, many uninsured and undocumented Latino use traditional healers and herbal medication.This article could help discusses the barriers to health care Latinos are faces in the United States. And how Latino immigrants live and deal with their illness.

• Neoliberalism and Latinos. Latino Studies (2016) 14, 2-10. Doi:10.1057/lst.2015.56

This article is about how the neoliberal movement before Obama and its policies have negatively impacted United States for over the past four decades but specially the Latinx. The impact on the Latinx communities were high on poverty, income and wealth, education, socioeconomic status, immigration and violation of human rights. This article will help write how the impact of neoliberalism have negatively affected the Latinx community. This is a valable source for my research.

• The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. “How Mexican Immigration to the U.S. has evolve” shttps://time.com/3742067/history-mexican-immigration/”. March 12, 2015.

This article is a research interview on Mexican immigration to the U.S. in the 20^th century. In the 1890s, Mexican migrant came to the United States to work in mining and agriculture. In the 1910s, came the Mexicans who were fleeing violence, lack of job and poverty.

This article could help write the history of Mexican, how and when they migrate to the United States.