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Pérez-Soria, J. (2022). Racism and Everyday life: Experiences of Mexican Migrants in California. Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2022.1.499
Abstract
In this article, two phenomena closely related to racism are analyzed: segregation and discrimination of the immigrant population from Mexico. Based on the analysis of 15 experiences of immigrant women and men, it is revealed how racialization is expressed in the patterns of settlement, at work, and in everyday life in different California cities. It is assumed that the socio-spatial segregation and discrimination of the immigrant population from Mexico is deeply linked to race -as a category of primary inequality. Immigration status often justifies inequality when it comes to the immigrant population, but it also hides the effect of racial relations and hierarchies that have defined and maintained the position of groups. The results show what is life like in segregated contexts and the forms of discrimination faced by Mexican immigrants.
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Aquino Moreschi, Alejandra. (2015) “Porque si llamas al miedo, el miedo te friega”: La ilegalización de los trabajadores migrantes y sus efectos en las subjetividades”, en Estudios Fronterizos, vol. 16, núm. 32, pp. 75-98.
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Blumer, Herbert. (1958) “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Privilege”, en Pacific Sociological Review, vol., núm. 1, pp. 3-7.
Bogardus, Emory. (1930) “The Mexican Immigrant and Segregation”, en American Journal of Sociology, vol. 36, núm. 1, pp. 74-80.
Brown, Hana E., Jennifer A. Jones y Andrea Becker. (2018) “The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization”, en RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 4, núm. 5, pp. 118–40.
Bürkner, Hans-Joachim. (2012) “Intersectionality: How Gender Studies Might Inspire the Analysis of Social Inequality among Migrants”, en Population, Space and Place, vol. 18, núm. 2, pp. 181–95.
Byng, Michelle. (2013) “You Can’t Get There from Here: A Social Process Theory of Racism and Race”, en Critical Sociology, vol. 39, núm. 5, pp. 705–715.
Camarillo, Albert. (1979) Chicano in a Changing Society, from Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Casanova, Saskias. (2012) “The Stigmatization and Resilience of a Female Indigenous Mexican Immigrant”, en Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, vol. 34, núm. 3, pp. 375-403.
Cho, Sumi, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw y Leslie McCall. (2013) “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis”, en Signs, vol. 38, núm, 4, pp. 785–810.
Crowder, Kyle, Matthew Hall y Stewart Tolnay. (2011) “Neighborhood Immigration and Natie Out-Migration, en American Sociological Review, vol. 76, núm. 1, pp. 25-47.
Denzin, Norman K. y Yvonna S. Lincoln. (2011) El campo de la investigación cualitativa, vol. I, Gedisa, Barcelona.
Ebert, Kim y Sarah Ovink. (2014) “Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Discrimination in New and Established Destinations”, en American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, núm. 13, pp. 1784-1804.
Ellis, Mark, Richard Wright y Virginia Parks. (2004) “Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work”, en Annals of Association of American Geographers, vol. 94, núm. 3, pp. 620-637.
Feagin, Joe. (1991) “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places”, en American Sociological Review, vol. 56, núm. 1, pp. 101-116.
Flick, Uwe. (2007) Introducción a la investigación cualitativa, Morata S. L., Madrid.
Fredrickson, George. (2002) Racism. A short history, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Gamio, Manuel. (1930) Mexican immigration to the United States: A study of human migration and adjustment, The University of Chicago Press, Illinois, Chicago.
García, San Juanita. (2017) “Racializing “Illegality”: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding How Mexican origin Women Navigate an Anti-immigrant Climate”, en Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 3, núm. 4, pp. 474–490.
Garson, David. (2016) Grounded Theory, Statistical Associates Blue Book Series.
Glaser, Barney y Anselm Strauss. (1967) The Discovery of Grounded Theory. Strategies for Qualitative Research, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, University Press, London.
Gómez-Quiñones, Juan. (1994) Mexican American Labor 1790-1990, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, Nuevo Mexico.
González, Gilbert. (1991) “Labor and Community: The Camps of Mexican Citrus Pickers in Southern California”, en The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 22, núm. 3, pp. 289-312.
Gordon, Milton M. (1964) Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origin, Oxford University Press. New York.
Guest, Greg, Arwen Bunce y Laura Johnson. (2006) “How Many Interviews Are Enough?: An Experiment with Data Saturation and Variability”, Field Methods, vol. 18, núm. 1, pp. 59 –82.
Gutiérrez, David G. (1995) Walls and Mirrors. Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Heller, Agnes. (1987) Historia y Vida Cotidiana, Ediciones Península, Barcelona.
Lacayo, Celia Olivia. (2017) “Perpetual Inferiority: Whites’ Racial Ideology toward Latinos”, en Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 3, núm. 4, pp. 566–579.
Lyman, Standford. (1991) “Civilization, Culture, and Color: Changing Foundations of Robert E. Park's Sociology of Race Relations”, en International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 4, núm. 3, pp. 285-300.
MacIntosh, Tracy, Mayur M. Desai, Tene T. Lewis, Beth A. Jones, y Marcella Nunez-Smith. (2013) “Socially-assigned Race, Healthcare Discrimination and Preventative Healthcare Services”, en PLoS ONE, vol. 8, núm. 5, pp. 1–7.
Menchaca, Martha. (1995) The Mexican Outsider, a community history of marginalization and discrimination in California, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
Ochoa, Gilda. (2004) Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community, Power, Conflict, and Solidarity, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
Omi, Michel y Howard Winant. (2015) Racial Formation in the Unted States, Routledge, Nueva York.
Park, Robert E. (1950) Race and Culture, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois.
Raffaelli, Marcela y Angela Wiley. (2012) “Challenges and Strengths of Immigrant Latino Families in the Rural West”, en Journal Family Issues, vol. 34, núm. 3, pp 347-372.
Sáenz, Rogelio y Karen M. Douglas. (2015) “A Call for the Racialization of Immigration Studies: On the Transition of Ethnic Immigrants to Racialized Immigrants”, en Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 1, núm. 1, pp. 166 -180.
Schaub, Jean-Frédéric. (2015) Pour une historie politique de la race, Éditions du Seuil, Francia.
Telles, Edward. (2010) “Mexican Americans and Immigrant Incorporation” en Contexs, vol. 9, núm., 1, pp. 28-33.
Vargas, Edward D., Nadia C. Winston, John A. Garcia y Gabriel R. Sanchez. (2016) “Latina/o or Mexicana/o? The Relationship between Socially Assigned Race and Experience with Discrimination”, en Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 2, núm. 4, pp. 498-515.
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