XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociacin de Estudios Canadienses

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The rising of a new citizenship. Political
action of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles
Guillermo Ibarra Escobar (UAS)

• XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de
  Estudios Canadienses
• Identidades en Evolución. Migraciones y
  Dinámicas
• Culturales en el Siglo XXI
• Flores de la Sierra, Madrid, 17-19 noviembre 2006.

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Theodore Roosevelt (1894). True Americanism

• We must Americanize them (the newcomers to our
  shores) in every way, in speech, in political
  ideas and principles, ... We welcome the German
  or the Irishman who becomes an American. .. We do
  not wish German-Americans and Irish- Americans
  who figure as such in our social and political
  life we want only Americans, and, provided they
  are such, we do not care whether they are of
  native or of Irish or of German ancestry. We have
  no room in any healthy American community for a
  German-American vote or an Irish-American vote,
  and it is contemptible demagogy to put planks
  into any party platform with the purpose of
  catching such a vote. We have no room for any
  people who do not act and vote simply as
  Americans, and as nothing else....

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Are illegal immigrants antiamericans?

• What does americanism mean in the globalizaded
  world of XXI century?
• Citizenship and nation state.
• Citizenship and the global city.

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Immigrantion debate, legislation, protesting,
grassroots.

• A new era in modern American history, similar to
  the 1960s.
• Making citizenship in urban life.
• The professions and the new citizenship.

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• Cartographical identities in the Global City.
• Militant particularism in the Global City and the
  New Citizenship.
• Citizens, the good ones.
• The Others, the strangers.
• Immigrants and citizenship.

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Mexicans in US and Los Ángeles, 2005

• Mexican population in US, 25 millions.
• Mexican foreign born in US, 11 millions.
• Mexican immigrants unauthorized in US, 6
  millions.
• Mexican foreign born in Greater Los Ángeles (LA,
  Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange), 3 millions.
• Mexican inmigrants unauthorized in Greater L.A,
  35, 1.05 million.

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The Sinaloans case

• Sinaloa in 2005, 3.5 of the Mexican foreign
  born, 108,000.
• Sinaloas immigrants unauthorized, 38, 41,000.
• Random survey 2004.

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Greater Los Angeles
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Mexicans foreign born by census track
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Surveying in Sinaloans household, 2004
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Year of arrival ()
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Pattern of arrival to US
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Educational attainment
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Civil status
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Migratory status
Percentage
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Age of the (Sinaloans) US borned
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Educational attainment of the (Sinaloans) US
borned
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Occupation
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Labor Status
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Weekly income in US dollars
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Monthly Housing Rent
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Weekly income by migration status
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Bank of preference
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Decision for migrating to United States
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Will your economic future improve?
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When do you think your economic situation will
improve?
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Difficulty for finding a job
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Labor conditions in Los Angeles
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Perception about the current personal income
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Living conditions in Los Angeles
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Have you suffer from discrimination?
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Social life in Los Angeles
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Regard of the US Laws
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Are you affiliated to a political party?
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Health services in the US compared to Mexicos
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Are you enjoying the American ways?
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Would you like to return to Mexico for living?
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Would you like to return to Mexico for working?
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How well do you speak English?
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Do you speaking English at home?
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Usage of English at work
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