Search

This paper is based on a qualitative methodology that includes in-depth interviews with one hundred migrant smugglers. This study was conducted between April 2008 and July 2012, and examines the transformation of migrant smuggling between Mexico and the United States in the context of restrictive migratory policies. The paper concludes that Mexican migrant smugglers have lost independence, because now they have to pay multiple bribes and they need the sponsorship of US employers to conduce undocumented immigrants from their place of origin to the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of my paper is to analyze the way in which diasporic experience builds and represents identities in the video project called Taraspanglish Shorts/Cortos Tarasplanglish. Tarasplanglish Shorts/Cortos Taraspanglish consists of a series of videos from one to four minutes that address the experience of migration and cultural continuity/discontinuity forged by the Purépecha community of Michoacan in Mexico, migrating to Madera, California in the United States. I propose that the audiovisual work of Indigenous videomakers may be understood as autoethnographic work that makes reference to identify formation derived from the process of migration. The purpose of this article is to analyze the strategies through which Indigenous videomakers represent/construct the identities of migrants using documentaries. Particularly, I explore how the Indigenous videomakers have adapted reflexive and performative modes of documentary to narrate the diaspora and to represent Indigenous communities participating in this experience. At the same time, I examine how these identities shaped by migratory subjectivity are inserted into the national and transnational contexts. The style of these shorts reveals how the videomakers conceive their subjects in the diaspora: mobile, performative and in constant construction. To demonstrate this, I have selected two productions. The first one is What is Taraspanglish? a short video that explains the purpose of the project and sets the general visual style of the project. The second short selected, Danza de la Identidad, in which a young Purépecha makes a re-interpretation of the traditional identity dance or Danza Celeste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Foro Internacional is the property of El Colegio de Mexico AC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Cultura Latinoamericana is the property of Universidad Catolica de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article aims to question and disprove the popular belief that human smuggling services over the Mexico-U.S. border has become an increasingly profitable industry as border control has improved and the process has become more sophisticated. The author claims that while many believe that small smuggling rings have been gradually replaced by larger, more organized criminal groups with connections to drug cartels, which then make a greater profit, the reality may be that the smuggling organizations are being forced to pay higher fees to pass through corridors controlled by the cartels, making the business less profitable and decreasing the number of Mexican citizens seeking to cross the border illegally into the United States.