This is the setting and fieldsite for Leo Chavez’s ethnography “Shadowed Lives.”
Where is SAN DIEGO?
100
In contrast to undocumented immigrants from Mexico, this is the main reason cited by many undocumented immigrants from Central America as to why they have come to the United States.
What is POLITICAL ASYLUM?
100
The 22 year long program recruiting workers from Mexico as a ready resource for cheap labor to address the American labor shortage.
1942-1964
What is the BRACERO PROGRAM?
100
This is the term for a guide who is paid to help undocumented immigrants cross the border.
What is A COYOTE?
100
This, in a word, is why people in “third world countries” can’t feed themselves.
What is COLONIALISM? (the effects of)
200
This is the name of the Squatter’s Settlement in the San Diego area that at the time of its destruction in 1988 was home to about 200 immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
What is GREEN VALLEY? (Valle Verde)
200
In the 1900s, Mexicans became the preferred labor force over this group.
Who are ASIANS?
(Yellow Peril; Chinese Exclusion Act 1882; Exclusion of Japanese 1907 ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’)
200
A metaphor of what it feels like to live as an undocumented immigrant in the US.
What is A GUILDED CAGE (Jaulo de Oro)? [or CLOSED CIRCLE; CHICKEN COOP; JAIL; PRISON]
200
This is a term used by Chavez again and again to describe the physical and symbolic experience of undocumented border-crossers --who are INSIDE the country as OUTSIDERs, a ‘betwixt and between’ existence involving ambiguity, ambivalence and danger.
What is LIMINALITY?
200
According to the article “Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?,” the term "underdeveloped" should not be understood as an adjective, but rather as this part of speech.
What is a VERB?
300
This is the state that absorbs more than half of all undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
What is CALIFORNIA?
300
BONUS
BONUS
300
Many Mexicans work in these types of FTZ factories on the Mexican side of the border in substandard working conditions.
What is a MAQUILADORA?
300
This is one of the dangers women, in particular, face when crossing the border.
What is SEXUAL ASSAULT?
300
This is the number of countries that are poorer today than 20 years ago.
What is SIXTY?
400
The name given to a sleeping place dug into the ground and under bushes, used by many undocumented workers who have no other options.
What is a SPIDER-HOLE?
400
Chavez names this as one of four types of incorporation.
What is economic, social, cultural or political?
400
Anti-immigration sentiment and policy often rely upon the rhetoric of "defending the American way of life" from a “foreign invasion” that would result in the "devolution of American civilization." This is the term that refers to an intense opposition to an internal minority on the grounds of its foreign (i.e., “un-American”) connections.
What is NATIVISM?
400
This place is the world’s busiest formal (legal) border-crossing station.
What is THE SOCCER FIELD (__)?
400
This group suffers more harshly in the global economy.
Who are WOMEN?
500
These are three of the six States that used to be part of Mexico.
What are: (3 of) TX, CA, NV, AZ, NM, UT?
500
This is the number of Mexican peasants who lost their rights to land by 1911 as a result of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz’ agreements with Europe and the US for capitalist development.
What is 5 MILLION –or- 98% OF FARMERS?
500
The term Chavez uses to describe a family with one or more members in the US and one or more members “back home” in another country.
What is a TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY?
500
This is the amount of money Beatriz and Enrique got stolen from them when they sought help from a “lawyer” to legalize their status.
What is $5,000?
500
Colonialism forced peasants to replace food crops with this type of crop.