Migration and identity

WEEK 8: Illegal/Undocumented Migrants: the Case of the USA

16.11.2004

The issue of ‘illegality’ raises the question of the legality/morality of the frontier and of US immigration law. Thus the expression ‘undocumented’. Whatever the Mexican migrants are called, their numbers, fate and effects in the labour market have occasioned graphic descriptions of their conditions, passionate advocacy of different policies and extensive scholarship to establish the facts behind the contending views. Can the US state police its borders? Do public opinion, economic interest and political will coincide or diverge?
General and non-USA references

Cornelius, Wayne A, Philip Martin and James F. Hollifield (eds) (1994) Controlling immigration: a global perspective Standford, CA: Stanford University Press

Futo, Peter, 2003 year book on illegal migration: human smuggling and trafficking in central and eastern Europe Vienna: International Centre for Migration Policy Development, 2004

Hjarnø, Jan Illegal immigrants and developments in employment in the labour markets of the EU Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003

Jordan, Bill and Franck Duvell Irregular Migration: The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002
US references

Bach, R. L. ‘Mexican Migration and the American State’ IMR 12, Winter 1978. 536–558

Bean, F. D., B. Edmondson and J. S. Passel (eds) Undocumented Migration to the US: ICRA and the Experience of the 1980s (Washington: The Urban Institute Press, 1990)* HC 2261.U6

Bean, F. D. et al. ‘Undocumented Mexican Immigrants and the Earnings of other Workers in the United States’, Demography, 25 (1) 1988, 35–52

Bustamante, J. ‘Undocumented Migration from Mexico’ IMR, Vol 2, 1977, 147–49

Bustamante, J. and G. Martinez ‘Undocumented Immigration from Mexico: Beyond Borders but within Systems’ Journal of International Affairs, 33, Fall/Winter, 1979, 265–84

Calvita, Kitty Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Illegal Immigrants and the INS (London: Routledge, 1993)**

Calvita, Kitty ‘Mexican immigration to the USA: the contradictions of border control in Robin Cohen (ed) The Cambridge Survey of World Migration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 236–44

Chavez, Leo R. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1992) (on order)

Dagodag, W. J. ‘Illegal Mexican Immigration to California from Western Mexico’, in R. C. Jones (ed.) Patterns of Undocumented Migration: Mexico and the US (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984) HC 2163.P2

Heer, David M. Undocumented Mexicans in the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) (on order)

Heer, D. M. and J. S. Passel ‘Comparison or Two Different Methods for Computing the Number of Undocumented Mexican Adults in Los Angeles County’ IMR, Vol. 21, Winter 1987, 1446–73

Jenkins, C. ‘Push/Pull in Illegal Migration to the US’ IMR, Vol. 2, 1977

Massey, D. S. ‘Understanding Mexican Migration to the United States’, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 92, 1987, 1372–403

Martin, Philip (1995) ‘Proposition 187 in California’, IMR, 29 (1), 255–64

Passel J. S. ‘Undocumented Migration’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, No. 487, September 1986, 181–200

Passel, J. S. and K. A. Woodrow ‘Geographic Distribution of Undocumented Immigrants: Estimates of Undocumented Aliens Counted in the 1980 Census by State’, IMR, Vol. 18, Fall 1984, 642–71

Passel, J. S. and K. A. Woodrow ‘Changes in the Undocumented Alien Population in the United States, 1979 1983’, IMR, 21 (4) 1987, 1304–34

Portes, A. and R. G. Rumbaut Immigrant America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) Chapter 7* HC 2361.P6

Reichert, J. ‘Patterns of US Migration from a Mexican Sending Community: A Comparison of Legal and Illegal Migrants’, IMR, 13 (4) 1979

Samora, J. Los Mojados: The Wetback Story (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971)* HC 2261.S2

Todaro, M. P. and L. Maruszko ‘Illegal Migration and US Immigration Reform: A Conceptual Framework’, Population and Development Review 13 (1) 1987, 101–14

Self-check: You should understand the dimensions and complexity of illegal Mexican migration and have a good appreciation of the different interests and institutions involved

WEEK 9 Global Care Workers

23.11.2004

The notion of a ‘global care chain’ unites various forms of subordinated international female labour – in the health care sector (as nurses or auxiliaries), in the domestic sector and as sex workers. During this week we will explain the idea of a care chain and take various examples
Anderson, Brigette (2000) Doing the Dirty Work: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (London: Zed Books

Chang, Grace (2001) Disposable domestics: immigrant women workers in the global economy Boston: South End Press

Gulati, Leela (1993) In the absence of their men: The impact of male migration on women, New Delhi: Sage HC 8781,G8 (comparative interest only)

Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2000) ‘Global care chains and emotional surplus value’ in W. Hutton and A. Giddens (eds) On the edge: living with global capitalism London: Jonathan Cape

Hochschild, Arlie Russell and Barbara Ehrenreich (2004) Global women Owl Books *

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierette (2001) Domestica: Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence (Berkeley: University of California Press)

Johnson, H. and H. Bernstein (eds) Third World Lives of Struggle (London: Heinemann, 1982) Part 3, 160–242 HF 1000.T4

Kofman, E and R. Sales (1998) ‘Migrant women and exclusion in Europe’ The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 5 (3-4). 381-89

Legassick, M. and H. Wolpe ‘The Bantustans and Capital Accumulation in SA’, Review of African Political Economy No. 7, 1979

Lutz, Hema (2002) ‘At your service, madam! The globalization of domestic service’ Feminist Review, 70, 89–103

Magubane, B. ‘The "Native Reserves" (Bantustans) and the Role of the Migrant Labour System in the Political Economy of South Africa’, in H. Safa and B. du Toit (eds) Migration and Development HC 2000.I6

Meillassoux, C. Maidens, Meals and Money (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)* HV 2200.M3

Murray, C. Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)* HM 1556.M8

Parrenas, R. S. (2001) Servants of globalization: women, migration and domestic work Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Phizacklea, Annie and Sally Westwood (2000) Transnationalism and the politics of belonging London: Routledge

Yeates, Nicola (2004) ‘A dialogue with global care chain analysis: nurse migration in the Irish context’ Feminist Review 77, 2004

Yeates, Nicola (2004) ‘Global care chains: critical reflections and lines of enquiry’ International Feminist Journal of Politics (forthcoming)

Young, K. et al. (eds) of Marriage and the Market: Women’s Subordination in an International Perspective (London: CSE Books, 1981)* HC 8700.03