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Graduate Student, Sociology
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Rogelio Saenz
Joe Feagin Marco Portales Nadia Flores |
About
My study presents a framework that supplies a comprehensive explanation of the white racial frame and its effect on undocumented Mexican immigrant’s dependability on social networks. Three important phenomena justify the significance between the white racial frame and the need of a stable social networks, in conjunction to the migration experience; they are: 1) how networks continually aid undocumented immigrants in the migration process in order to evade capture and life threatening situations, 2) how an undocumented immigrant usage of a coyote depends on the access of resources due to his social network, and 3) how Americans have used terms/metaphors, such as “aliens,” to dehumanize undocumented immigrants, placing immigrants at the bottom of the racial frame resulting in illegal migration.
Employing qualitative and quantitative methods, known as mix methods, fills gaps at the micro level of association between the undocumented immigrant, the social network, and the white racial frame. For the quantitative section of the research, the 124 Dataset (the mig.file) of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) was used. As for the qualitative section, the study relied on thirty face-to-face interviews with day-laborers residing in Texas. All of the day-laborers, in the study, are undocumented immigrants from Mexico who came to the United States in search of work. Through a mix methods approach a logistic regression explains the likelihood of a coyote being used by an undocumented immigrant and why.
These factors that have been studied separately and isolated within their respective areas are salient features in exploring the organic composition of networks and the immigrant’s ability to adapt to the racial culture where they are able to find entry into the United States. Therefore, the erection of a wall along the border and the pushing of undocumented immigrants into dangerous areas are not working and are inhumane tactics. As a result, humane and effective measures may emerge from understanding the dynamics operating within the world of undocumented immigrants. Also, this project is significant to other social scientists who are seeking a comprehensive explanation of effects that the white racial frame has on the migration process.
