Library Research Guides: Mexican American Experience: Past Programs

Zoot Suiters From G.I to WWII

Education Equlity

•Economics of migration examining the push and pull factors which compel people to emigrate and benefits to the U.S. economy not only from undocumented workers but the immigration industrial complex that profits from the detention of migrants.

•Central America's history and relegation of its people into the social margins whose government's lack of response in dealing with life threatening issues compel families to flee.

•A Social Work perspective through observations of migrant children separated from their parents and detained while still awaiting family reunification and the Tornillo child detention center.

•Family dynamics and impact that separation of migrant children from their parents have on the development of their self-identities.

•Migration's paralleled history to address the origins of the Southwestern border in conjunction with the Irish, and Chinese experience regarding laws and policies to also include extralegal measures by earlier Texas Rangers against border Mexicans.

Rosita the Riveter

El Poder del Atletismo en Nuestra Cultura

Presented by

Adrian Morales, Librarian

Debi Castillo Lopez, Librarian

Gilbert Silva, Educational Psychology Instructor

Jorge Rodriguez, History Instructor

Jose A. Castillo, Guest Speaker

What Border Crises

El Paso Community College Instructors Steven Loera, Karla Savina, Eillene Wyatt, and Diana Martinez will present on issues of immigration at the Valle Verde campus. The Mexican American Experience, Debunking the Myths: What Crisis at the Border, will be the subject of the panel discussion. Topics for discussion will include:

Family dynamics and impact that separation of migrant children from their parents has on the development of their self-identities.
Economics of migration examining the push and pull factors which compel people to emigrate and benefits to the U.S. economy not only from undocumented workers but the immigration industrial complex that profits from the detention of migrants.
Central America's history and relegation of its people into the social margins whose government's lack of response in dealing with life-threatening issues compel families to flee.
Migration's paralleled history to address the origins of the Southwestern border in conjunction with the Irish, and Chinese experience regarding laws and policies to also include extralegal measures by earlier Texas Rangers against border Mexicans.
Social work perspective by Ashley Heidebrecht whose observations of migrant children separated from their parents and detained while still awaiting family reunification.