The U.S. Economic Agenda: A Sweatshop Model of Development

The U.S. Economic Agenda: A Sweatshop Model of Development

Over the past decade, U.S.AID has worked hard to promote Haiti as a low-wage site for U.S. companies fleeing offshore ...
Japanese-Peruvians-Reviled and Respected: The Paradoxial Place of Peru's Nikkei

Japanese-Peruvians-Reviled and Respected: The Paradoxial Place of Peru’s Nikkei

Percy Takayama says that several times recently when he’s approached a Lima newspaper kiosk, people gathered to scan the tabloid ...
Apartheid Dominican Style

Apartheid Dominican Style

Two international human rights bodies—the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the Inter-American Human Rights Court—are examining charges that the Dominican ...
Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring "Stories of Self-Definition" by Clara E. Rodr

Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring “Stories of Self-...

Lurking in the shadows of the news media’s early coverage of the 2000 census numbers was a challenge to the ...
In Search of the Chilean Paradise: Peruvians in Chile Forge a Community

In Search of the Chilean Paradise: Peruvians in Chile Forge a Community

“This area is full of Peruvians. They are everywhere, these dirty Indians that stand on the street all day. They ...
A Hard Road for Argentina's Bolivians

A Hard Road for Argentina’s Bolivians

As the sun rises in a working class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Bolivian immigrants wait on a street corner for ...
Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republic—who number at ...
Travelling North: A Chronicle of an Undocumented Journey

Travelling North: A Chronicle of an Undocumented Journey

In April 1994 I came to the United States from El Salvador. I came with three other young women and ...