La inmigración caribeña y la transnacionalidad literaria en Panamá: una excursión por las calles de la memoria, la reflexión y los espacios en movimiento
En un país como Panamá la entrada en la modernidad del Atlántico significó la inmigración de cientos de trabajadores del Caribe y Asia, tanto por la construcción del ferrocarril como por el Canal. Y esta inmigración no solo fue de trabajadores, sino de también de negociantes y empresarios sefarditas del Caribe holandés, americanos, ingleses y franceses. Esta inmigración transformó los espacios urbanos, las estructuras de clases y la endogámica relación del mercado de emparejamiento y matrimonios. Para los primeros veinte años de la República ya habían emigrado a Panamá treinta mil trabajadores que se concentraban en las llamadas ciudades terminales de Panamá y Colón, ya no se hablaba solamente español, sino que el inglés (y el patuá caribeño de las antillas inglesas) inundaba las calles de esas ciudades donde también había cientos de lectores de periódicos en lengua inglesa ávidos de información actualizada.
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The recent announcement from the United Nations (UN) that they had overestimated the AIDS epidemic by six million people prompted pronouncements from optimists in the last 2 weeks that the AIDS epidemic is no longer a threat. While the sampling error on the part of the UN is certainly serious, it would not be wise to ignore some harsh realities. As indicated in the New York Times - Week in Review section this past Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007, "although there are some indications that new infections might have hit a plateau, there nevertheless, were more than three million annual new infections in 1998 compared to 2.5 million in 2007.[i]
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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Date Posted: August 21, 2007
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally known author and political analyst. He is not a staff member of DiversityInc.
When Newark [New Jersey] Mayor Cory Booker learned that the alleged shooters in the execution killing of three black college students were undocumented immigrants, he did the responsible thing. He did not finger-point a porous border and lax law enforcement for allegedly letting so many supposed violent immigrants slip into the country as the cause of the killings. Booker may have said and done the right thing as a responsible public official, and in this case a black elected official, who did not want to arouse public passions any more than they already were over the murders. He certainly did not want to inflame the always-fragile tensions between blacks and Latinos any more than they already are.
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by Khalil Nieves
“Most people extricate themselves from familiar environments only when their survival and well-being are in jeopardy. As of 2004, roughly one in every 35 people was an international migrant. If they all lived in the same place, they would constitute the world’s fifth largest country.” —Mike Davis, No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border i>
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by George Lakoff, Sam Ferguson
Rockridge Institute
Framing is at the center of the recent immigration debate. Simply framing it as about “immigration” has shaped its politics, defining what count as “problems” and constraining the debate to a narrow set of issues. The language is telling. The linguistic framing is remarkable: frames for illegal immigrant, illegal alien, illegals, undocumented workers, undocumented immigrants, guest workers, temporary workers, amnesty, and border security. These linguistic expressions are anything but neutral. Each framing defines the problem in its own way, and hence constrains the solutions needed to address that problem. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we will analyze the framing used in the public debate. Second, we suggest some alternative framing to highlight important concerns left out of the current debate. Our point is to show that the relevant issues go far beyond what is being discussed, and that acceptance of the current framing impoverishes the discussion.
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