The Famous 4 in Arizona make the NYT
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Editorial
Published: May 19, 2010 - New York Times
Four young immigrant students risked everything on Monday when they sat down in Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson and refused to leave. They were urging passage of the Dream Act, a bill offering a citizenship path to illegal immigrants who, like them, were brought to the United States as children, too young to have willfully broken the law...link to complete NYT article
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Thanks for your beautiful and human articles Marie-Theresa
Video of the Border : U. S. Professors : "I did not feel like a professor, or teacher, or researcher, I just felt like a human being
Walking with the "illegal immigrants" or "undocumented aliens", sleeping with them in Mexican refuges or in the desert, sharing with them. This video was filmed around Nogales, Arizona - William and Mary College, Williamsburg Virginia.
williamandmary — May 20, 2010 — Over spring break 2009, Professors Jennifer Bickham Mendez (Sociology and Latin American Studies) and Silvia Tandeciarz (Hispanic Studies) led a research team of eight students to the Tucson/Nogales region of the U.S.Mexico border.
Professor Jennifer Bickham Mendez has published articles in such journals as Social Problems, Mobilization, Labor Studies Journal, and Gender and Society. Her book From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor and Globalization in Nicaragua (2005 Duke University Press) received the 2008 Annual Book Award from the Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association as well as an honorable mention from the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Professor Silvia Tandeciarz has published these recent articles: • "Citizens of Memory: Refiguring the Past in Post-Dictatorship Argentina," PMLA (January 2007) • "Mnemonic Hauntings: Photography as Art of the Missing," Social Justice (October 2006). • "Representaciones de ‘lo femenino' en el imaginario nacional argentino pos-dictadura: el discurso cinematográfico del poder," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos XXVIII, 2 (2004). • "Writing for Distinction? A Reading of Cortázar's Final Short Story, Diario para un cuento," Latin American Literary Review, 29:58 (July-December 2001): 73-100. Recent translations: • The Insubordination of Signs. Co-translator, with Dr. Alice Nelson, of Nelly Richard's La insubordinación de los signos. Duke University Press (Spring 2004). • Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s). Co-translator, with Dr. Alice Nelson, of Nelly Richard's Masculino/femenino: prácticas de la diferencia y cultura democrática. Duke University Press (Spring 2004). Creative writing: • Exorcismos. Madrid, Spain: Betania, 2000.
Borderlands: Professors explore immigration on the hyphen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqBRPZd5Pc
Youth, Minorities, Demography and Politics :
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