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The United States enjoys a per-capita gross domestic product more than five times the size of Mexico (World Bank, 2015). Yet the immigration policies of the United States fail to recognize the incentives workers in Mexico have to immigrate, legally or otherwise, into the United States. The law alone fails to control the movement of people across a 1,900-mile land border. Immigration has contributed to the economic and cultural dynamism of the United States. In the short-run, it may create economic winners and losers, leading to domestic tension. After Congress debated and then rejected President George W. Bush’s immigration overhaul in 2007, state governments started adopting laws and rules targeting illegal immigrants. Many of those laws forced employers to use the electronic E-Verify system to check whether prospective hires were eligible to work in the United States. Typically, the primary goal was to bar illegal immigrants from the workforce. Additional goals included boosting the employment prospects and earnings of legal residents, and encouraging illegal immigrants to voluntarily leave markets governed by E-Verify requirements. Politicians focused particular attention on the U.S. agricultural industry, which is not surprising since U.S. Department of Agriculture surveys show roughly half the agricultural workforce is working in the country illegally. Farmers say they hire illegal workers because they cannot find enough U.S. workers to harvest labor-intensive produce and livestock. Supporters of the E-Verify law in Georgia said one of their policy goals was to encourage farmers to secure legal, foreign laborers through the federally run H2A visa program. The H2A system allows growers facing domestic labor shortages to import foreign laborers for up to 10 months, though the program is bureaucratically cumbersome and requires that cost-sensitive growers pay above-market wages. To determine whether E-Verify laws encourage H2A use, the author reviewed every state E-Verify law affecting the agricultural industry. After aggregating H2A usage data at the state level, the author conducted a fixed-effects regression that controls for years, monthly seasonal fluctuations, state effects, H2A wage costs, and the relative strength of a state’s E-Verify law. While there is anecdotal evidence that E-Verify laws may disrupt labor markets, there is little statistical evidence that state E-Verify laws cause farmers to increasingly rely on the H2A system. Surprisingly, there is statistical evidence that the strictest E-Verify laws may reduce H2A usage.

abstract: Esta disertación analiza las maneras en que el sujeto (in)migratorio es representado en el cine español y argentino de los últimos años. El estudio investiga cómo el cine del (in)migrante ofrece convincentes narraciones (no)ficticias que son aportadas con temas de raza, género, lenguaje e identidad desde ambas perspectivas del sujeto migratorio y de aquellos ubicados dentro de las culturas "indígenas" de recepción. Al cuestionar la conceptualización de la nación-estado, este proyecto contribuye a una base teórica fundada en una ruptura de las nociones hegemónicas que han construido opiniones de diferencia y aceptación de una persona sobre otro. En términos de lenguaje, este estudio es relevante por su análisis del discurso y epítetos raciales que existen y persisten debido a parámetros y limitaciones en el lenguaje Castellano y su léxica inherente. Equipado con esto es la propuesta de que si nuestra lengua tiene un registro inadecuado para interactuar con el supuesto otro, entonces solo se puede concluir que nosotros también estamos limitados en nuestro entendimiento de otros sujetos globales. De allí, una mejora del lenguaje resultaría en una mejora de sensibilidades culturales y globales. Además, la representación del género y la raza son puntos importantes para una interpretación semiótica de estos textos y se observa las maneras en que los temas socio-lingüísticos son triangulados entre las películas, los países y las sociedades de tales producciones culturales. Por ejemplo, las mujeres están sujetas a puestos restringidos e inferiores del sector de servicio, como prostitutas y mucamas, mientras los hombres están atados a cuestionables formas de trabajo en la agricultura y servicios sociales de baja categoría. Al final de todo, un mayor empuje detrás de este género fílmico subversivo es romper con las erróneas, anticuadas y precipitadas nociones de identidades nacionales para incitar deseables sensibilidades culturales a través de la lente artística del cine. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Spanish 2012

Estudo sobre a imigração judaica italiana no Brasil, em particular em São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro, no contexto da política anti-semita do governo Vargas (1937-1945). Tem como base a relação dos judeus italianos que, a partir de 1938, foram obrigados a deixar seu país após a emissão das leis raciais fascistas (1938). Com destaque, analisa a postura de Jorge Latour, diplomata brasileiro, atento aos efeitos das leis de exclusão no território italiano. Os relatórios de Latour tinham como objetivo estimular os políticos brasileiros a seguir o mesmo caminho da Itália fascista. Investiga a concessão de vistos aos judeus italianos refugiados no Brasil, assim como suas estratégias de sobrevivência e formas de adaptação à comunidade brasileira em geral. / We present the results of a research into the Italian Jewish immigration in Brazil, and particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in the face of the anti-Semitic policy of Getúlio Vargas´s government (1937-1945). This research is based on a list of Italian Jews who were forced to leave their country after the issuance of the fascist racial laws in 1938. It especially analyses the position of Brazilian diplomat Jorge Latour, alert to the effects of the laws of exclusion in Italian territory. Latour´s reports aimed at stimulating Brazilian politicians to follow the same path of fascist Italy. It investigates the concession of visas to Italian Jews who took refuge in Brazil, as well as the subterfuges they used to survive and their forms of adaptation to the Brazilian community in general.