Repatriation

After reading both articles U.S Urged to Apologize for 1930s Deportations, Some Stories Hard to get in History Books, and heard Ruben Aguilar’s interview with Bill Luna it made me think further about what happened during the 1930s. In Ruben Aguilar’s interview what struck me the most was that he stated that he was deported to Mexico when he was only six years old. Aguilar was deported to Mexico when he was a U.S citizen. Ruben Aguilar was born on U.S soil yet that was not enough. He was not only

San Francisco today is not the same place it was hundreds of years ago. This is obvious in terms of the city’s modernization, but a change that is equally as important, is the huge amount of diversity in cultures. Chances are, if you were to ask a student at Skyline College if their parents were born in the United States, many of them would answer no. Every immigrant has their own story of how they ended up in San Francisco, but the most important are the stories of the very first groups. Most first

United States. It was unsuccessful because of the fact that these African-Americans no longer belonged to simply one ethnic group/tribe/nation. Rather, they were a multifaceted composition of a wide array of various groups in Africa. The attempt at repatriation was disastrous because of the extensive cultural differences between the ‘returnees’ and the

Hannah Arendt’s begins the chapter with the first part of after the fall of the First World War stating the condition of the stateless people clarified the catastrophe of the nation-state model and the failure of human rights. When the nation-system was created, the people in power in Europe separated the people into 3 major groups which are the state people, the nationalities like the Slovaks in Czechoslovakia, and the minorities like the Germans, being the strongest officially economically and

Mexican American is George J. Sanchez’s document how Chicanos survived as a community in Los Angeles during the first part of the twentieth century. He goes into detail of how many thousands of Mexicans were pushed back in to Mexico during a formal repatriation. Those that survived in Los Angeles joined labor unions and became involved in New Deal politics. The experience of Mexican-Americans in the United States is both similar, yet different from other minority groups. They were treated much like

ethical issues at stake in the debate over the custody of the Iraqi Baath Party records. Caswell presents the Iraqi Baath Party records as a lens through which one can view the complexities of cultural property repatriation on a broader scale – and how the current frameworks of repatriation only perpetuate dangerously oversimplified binary thinking. First, a brief outline of the case: During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, seven million pages of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party records ended up in

group of people fall the Native Americans. Archaeologists, on the other hand, think we should uncover the burial site to be able to discover more about the history of the land from which the grave lies. The Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act was signed into law on November 1990 by President George Bush. This legislation is the result of decades of effort by American Indians to protect the burial sites of their ancestors against grave desecration and to recover the remains of ancestors

time of terrible trials for Americans, few understand the hardships faced by Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. This paper examines the experiences of Mexicans in America during the Great Depression and explores the devastating impact of repatriation efforts. America has an extensive history of accepting Mexican workers when they are needed for cheap labor, and demanding that they be deported when the economic situation is more precarious in an attempt to open jobs for Americans. In the 1930s

Introduction Edstrom and Galbraith (1977) define expatriates as “Individuals who irrespective of their national origin are transferred outside their native country to another country specifically for employment purposes”. Cohen (1977) also defines expatriates as a voluntary and temporal migration of a person abroad for specific purposes with an ultimate return to his or her country. Multinational countries looking for uniformity across their subsidiaries send out expatriates in order to act

The Americas comprises of North and South America with a current and ever-growing population of over seven hundred million people (Continent) with a vast array of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. From people walking south through ice free corridors into what is now considered the United States of America to paddling through kelp highways down the south Alaskan shoreline to the Americas by hugging the shoreline, the hypothesis of how the first peoples migrated to the Americas varies. The