Final

Question 1

Why is it important to research families and gender on the border?

Answer 1

families exhibit remarkable resiliency in spite of there harsh economic realities

Question 2

How is the border /trans-border region characterized? (politically, economically, socially, etc.)?

Answer 2

High cross-border population mobility
Oversight of environmental quality
Has not helped border prosper
Weak bi-national health and human services infrastructure

Question 3

How would you describe presence of latino children in the US

Answer 3

60% are in the borders of TX, NM, Arizona, California
91% in TX border
20% are foreign born
California more cross-border movement

Question 4

How is the border region similar to or different from non-border regions in terms of language,

Answer 4

no significant difference in lang. fluency among latinos in border countries

Question 5

How is the border region similar to or different from non-border regions in terms of poverty?

Answer 5

High latino children in poverty because of workforce participation and family structure

Question 6

How is the border region similar to or different from non-border regions in terms of education ?

Answer 6

Latino drop out rate is high but not significantly high compared to the US

Question 7

What are the drop-out rate factors

Answer 7

Language barriers, Transfer process/ constant movement, lack of cultural familiarity with US schools customs

Question 8

How transnational lives and identities maintained?

Answer 8

example schools change start date to accommodate trips to b=visit families in mexico

Question 9

Transnational

Answer 9

Events, communities and lives linked across borders, transformations that result widespread movement of Mexicans back and forth between their country of orgins

Question 10

Binational

Answer 10

of or relating to 2 nations

Question 11

Transborder

Answer 11

crossing or extending across border

Question 12

Immigrant paradox

Answer 12

Phenomenon whereby first generation immigrant children outperform second or third generation immigrant children in school.

Question 13

How does second generation Mexican American transnationalism differ from first generation?

Answer 13

affects parenting strategies, determine how SGMA negotiate their lives, amercanized

Question 14

Maquiladoras Employment

Answer 14

Factories owned by US 
$10 daily 
3000 along the border
1.3 mill
young teens 
women
childfree

Question 15

Cross-border employment

Answer 15

not allow to work on both sides

workers must cross borders to work on other side

Question 16

Marginal Employment

Answer 16

work part time, fewer hours, unemployment becomes a problem bc of job availability

Question 17

employment in non-registered businesses

dominate by head of household, avoid taxes, under the table women become exploited and men become the own boss

Answer 17

Informal Employment

Question 18

What are some characteristics of Latina Entrepreneur?

Answer 18

families are a big support, have more of a drive to support their family back in mexico

Question 19

Platicas

Answer 19

conversations that allow us to self-discover who are in relationship to ourselves and others

Question 20

Are the glue that maintains cohesion, resiliency, protection of Latina culture, social networks and identity and sustains the periods of distress

Answer 20

Platicas

Question 21

Privileged Listeners

Answer 21

a chosen person to hear the most deep parts of ones life, confiding

Question 22

Medical industrial complex

Answer 22

know something that is wrong with them and decide to not

Question 23

Fatism

Answer 23

discriminating agaisnt others on the basis of fatness

Question 24

Fat shaming

Answer 24

to cause the shame of being fat

Question 25

Fatness of social construct

Answer 25

both medical and social constructs

Question 26

Abject body

Answer 26

that which disturbs identity, system, order, excessive abnormal

Question 27

intensive mothering

Answer 27

full attention close proximity mother primary, Quality over quantity

Question 28

Competitive mothering

Answer 28

providing children with activities and opportunities that will ensure their success

Question 29

Spatial deference

Answer 29

separating maid from family and other practices that enforce submissivness

Question 30

How does witnessing the maid effet the children of the employees

Answer 30

children who witness this develoe a sence of entitlement to be loved and cared for by these women of color

Through witnessing children are taught systems of class, racial, ethnis gender and citisenship

Question 31

Double consciousness

Answer 31

best of both worlds subservient