I have always found this article insightful, even more so now, more than when Huntington was alive. With the recent elections in the US and Trump spreading fear, the so called “Hispanic Challenge” has made it to the White House. This article, unlike many, give a short, but I would say well thought out introduction […]
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Week 14 – Latin Americans in Asia continued
It seems this was the wrong article. Having said that, it was still a very interesting one. The authors pick up on a theme discussed a few weeks back, and that is on the diversity of locations when it comes to Peruvian migration. What the article does well, and at the same time, is what […]
Week 13 – Latin Americans in Asia continued
Even though this article is dated in some ways, I always find it interesting and relevant when thinking about identity. Tsuda manages to explore and analyze identity without catching himself essentializing it as other authors do. At the same time, he managed to delve deep into a community through what I found to be a […]
Week 12 – Latin Americans in Asia
In reading and thinking about this article, it always amazes me how ‘racial hierarchies’ continue to hold sway within some migrant populations. It’s obvious that what the author explores does not hold true for all Nikkei, be them Peruvian or Brazilian; but I wonder how long it takes for it to become ‘true’? Apparently, not […]
Week 11 – Latin Americans in Europe Continued
This article touched on a couple forms of migration that are usually not integrated within migration studies since they are either not included as migration (adoption) or are seen mostly through a security lens (getting papers for others through a work ‘contract’) and talked about from that perspective. I found it interesting how adoption, at […]
Week 10 – Latin Americans in Europe
This article takes us back down to the local; it presents us what is referred to as a ‘slice of life’. I think these types of articles are important for at least two reasons. First, they usually (like this one) provide the reader with specific information on the sample of participants; and second, some type […]
Week 9 – Chinese Communities in Peru
Although we can go back to the 1600s to view the Chinese in residing and carrying out commerce in Lima, as with the majority of communities from around the globe, it was not until the mid 19th Century, when the Chinese joined the mass global migrations that Peru became a geography with a considerable concentration […]
Week 8 -Peruvian Migration in a Global Context
Since there a couple more articles on Peruvian migration in the coming weeks, what I wanted to give you guys, was to view migration from a somewhat different point of view. When it comes to Latin American migration, for the most part, we take Mexican and Cuban migrations two of the most talked about examples. […]
Week 7 – Salvadoran Migration
This week’s reading introduced us to Salvadoran migration to the US, where the vast majority of Salvadorans outside El Salvador reside. The article places geography (social and physical) as an important lens on how to view transnational migration since it places an importance not only on El Salvador and the US, but also the urban […]
Week 6 – Japanese Migration to Peru
Japanese migration to Peru was part and parcel of the mass migrations of the mid to late 19th Century. As with any other migration during this time, it can’t be taken out of the global context of the time. Global migration to the Americas this time goes far beyond the images of Ellis Island, or […]
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