Escritos Críticos

Etiqueta: Immigration

  • On the dehumanization of poor immigrants

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    The struggle for immigrant rights highlights systemic discrimination driven by global inequality. Poor migrants face demonization, while the wealthy exploit resources and evade scrutiny. Historical injustices compel migration, leading to criminalization of the victims. As certain nations uphold their privileges, solidarity and moral advocacy for human rights aim to challenge this entrenched oppression.

  • “We Have the Best Democracy Money Can Buy”

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    Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate at Jacksonville University, discussed her activist background, emphasizing public health, environment, and electoral reforms. She criticized gun violence driven by lobbyists, called for universal healthcare, and proposed a diplomatic foreign policy. Stein highlighted the need for democracy, challenging the two-party system and addressing human rights concerns, particularly in…

  • 180th anniversary of the founding of the xenophobic party Know Nothing

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    Kensington, Pennsylvania. May 6, 1844—In retaliation for the demonstrations against him in the Irish district of Kensington, Lewis Levin organizes a protest of three thousand followers who kill dozens of Irish and burn dozens of houses, in addition to the Catholic churches of St. Michael and Saint Augustine. None of these crimes will be tried…

  • Western North Carolina University

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    A Conversation with Jorge Majfud Date and Time Thursday, January 31 2019 at 5:30 PM EST to Thursday, January 31 2019 at 7:00 PM EST Add To Google Calendar | iCal/Outlook Location UC Theater Description Visiting scholar, Dr. Jorge Majfud, will discuss different topics: immigration, race, the role of the humanities and intellectuals in the public sphere, etc. Dr. Majfud is Associate Professor of…

  • Immigration, History, Politics, and the Latino Vote

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    2019 Lectures   IMMIGRATION AND THE LATINO VOTE  January 30, 2019 4:30 pm McKee 113  WCU Humanities Initiative WCU welcomes Uruguayan-American scholar and author Jorge Majfud.  In the first event, Dr. Majfud will join Dr. Benjamin Francis-Fallon (WCU History) in a panel about Immigration and the evolution of the Latino Voting Bloc in the US.  Join…

  • El racismo no necesita racistas

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    El post destaca la diferencia fundamental entre opiniones y hechos, enfatizando que el pensamiento crítico va más allá de esta distinción. Se examinan las percepciones sobre la inmigración y el racismo en EE. UU., destacando que apoyar leyes no implica ser racista, aunque muchas leyes reflejan una cultura racista. La discusión sobre la historia y…

  • Blame it on the poor

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    In 1758, the Governor of South Carolina, James Glen, acknowledged in a letter to his successor: “It has always been the policy of this government to create an aversion in them to Indians to Negroes.”   In previous generations, racism had not reached a sufficient level of hatred to prevent Indians, blacks, and poor whites…

  • Mythes de base sur l’immigration

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    Mitos fundamentales sobre la inmigración (Spanish)  Cinq mythes de base sur l’immigration : déconstruction Jorge Majfud Translated by  Alain Caillat-Grenier Edited by  Fausto Giudice فاوستو جيوديشي Dans la plupart des pays et à travers différentes époques, les classes les plus conservatrices se sont toujours situées aux extrémités de la pyramide sociale. Aux USA la rhétorique conservatrice s’est employée à…

  • Mitos fundamentales sobre la inmigración

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    Mythes de base sur l’immigration (French)   Seis mitos fundamentales sobre la inmigración   En casi todos los países y a lo largo de diferentes épocas, las clases más conservadoras han estado siempre en los extremos de la pirámide social. En Estados Unidos la retórica conservadora ha logrado captar parte de los sectores de los extractos más…

  • Five Reasons to Embrace Migrants

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    Professor Ian Goldin and Geoffrey Cameron argue in their recent book, “Exceptional People: How Immigration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future”, that in a more interconnected world than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase. Here they set out some of the advantages that…

  • Latinos Nix Violence

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    Latinos Nix Violence by Erin O’Donnell First-generation immigrants are more likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert Sampson, Ford professor of the social sciences. These new findings run counter to conventional wisdom, which holds that immigration creates chaos. The prevailing “social disorganization theory” first gained traction in the 1920s…

  • The History of Immigration

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    The History of Immigration by Jorge Majfud   One of the typical – correction: stereotypical – images of a Mexican has been, for more than a century, a short, drunk, trouble-maker of a man who, when not appearing with guitar in hand singing a corrido, was portrayed seated in the street taking a siesta under…