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Hispanics and the Law in Massachusetts

Seminar 4: Latinos in Hiding

February 7, 2008

College of the Holy Cross


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• Latino

• Latina

• Hispanic

• Hispanic-American

• Hispanic Origin

• Undercount

• Foreign born

• National origin • Migration• Immigration• Undocumented

resident• “Illegal alien”

KEY TERMS


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The Data Question


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total populationHispanicsNon-Hispanics

Massachusetts Population Growth Comparison


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Who benefits from what data?

What’s going on?

Who knows?

Critical eye to data


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4. The Great Migrations: The

Big Picture


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What are the global migration trends?


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Immigration: a Global Issue

• Is Immigration a crisis?

• Patterns

• Long-term population trends

• Fertility rates


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5. Conflicts of Laws and Perspectives

• International Law-human rights

• Constitutional Law- equal rights

• Federal statute-immigration

• State Law-benefit programs; driving

• Municipal Law-Sanctuary


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Fourteenth Amendment

• Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


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Undocumented Residents

• Migrants– Economic adversity– Access to services– Hiding from the law

• “Illegal aliens”– Economic fears– Racism– Anxiety about difference and change

• Hispanics– Ethnic empathy/shared history– Broadening stigma


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PERSPECTIVES• The Boston Yankees• Irish “stock”• Undocumented Worker• Small business • Large business• Documented Immigrant• 4th Generation Hispanic-American

Professional


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Speaking from Perspective

• Defining our terms• Consistency of

perspective• Identity with perspective• Fact, fiction and image


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Turning the Social Sciences Inside Out

• From the other side of the microscope

Something stared back


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6. What’s Going On With

Migration to Massachusetts


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Estimated Unauthorized Migrant Population in

Massachusetts• 150,000 - 250,00 (Pew)• 508,530 total Hispanic population in

Mass. (2005 census estimate)• WBUR: Countries of Origin Mass. Immi

grants• WBUR: Top 10 Countries of Birth Immig

rant Labor force arriving 1990-2000

http://www.wbur.org/news/local/immigration/charts/pie01.html





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F.A.I.R.• Illegal immigration, like legal immigration to

Massachusetts, is heavily Mexican. • We estimate that Massachusetts' illegal alien

population now numbers about 83,000 persons.

• The continued addition of illegal immigrants over the next 45 years, assuming it continues at current rates, is projected to add more than 281,000 persons to the population from newcomers and their offspring


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Numbers are driven by ideology more than science

• Numbers tell the story they are framed to tell• Aggregation of individual historical realities

may be the best we can do• The larger the aggregation, the less reliable

the history?• Knowledge is the object of study• Knowledge means self-understanding• History/oral tradition

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