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This article examines two major institutions widely touted in the United States as servants to communities and the general public: the government and the news media. The Flint water crisis is a textbook case in which these two institutions failed to live up to their responsibilities of accountability and transparency. The authors examine the major events during the water crisis, looking at it through the lens of government actions and how the press covered them, conducting qualitative context analysis during the first five months of the crisis. The analysis includes the actions of federal, state, and local agencies and the reporting of national, state, and local newspapers. Their findings show that the institutions completely imploded, with an impact on thousands of residents, many of whom happened to be minorities.

The literature about forms of labor intermediation has pointed out different functions, activities, actors, and mechanisms; however, the weight that ethnicity has in these processes has not been addressed very much. After a historic analysis looking at how the forms and mechanisms for acquiring farm labor have varied, the authors study a Oaxacan pioneer of migration to Napa and Sonoma, California, counties. In his role as steward, he took charge of ensuring the arrival of relatives and fellow Oaxacans as more and more workers were required due to the change in the land use from fruit orchards to vineyards. This case allows us to incorporate new elements into our analysis of the processes of labor intermediation when they occur among members of a single ethnic group.

Re-bordering, one of the processes of contemporary “borderness,” imposes the configuration of new spatialities in border areas. Focusing on the spaces of everyday life and using a qualitative methodology, the author analyzes the spatial operations that reproduce or resist this process, and whether the operations reinforce border separation between territories and societies of two neighboring nation-states. He analyzes the border between the United States and Mexico, selecting the bi-national Anzalduas Dam on the Río Bravo/Grande as a case study. This place is characterized by the simultaneous presence of re-bordering operations and recreational activities on both sides of the border, based on which the resistance operations are constructed. The author concludes that, to a greater or lesser extent, even the resistance itself reinforces border separation.

This article analyzes the migratory trajectory of four young people from Guanajuato based on the notion of a compound identity, which emerges from the concept of multiple belongings proposed by Amin Maalouf. The author uses this notion to put forward the idea that the perspectives that emphasize assimilation or trans-nationalism do not help explain the return process of a generation of young people who grew up under irregular circumstances in the United States and was forced to return to Mexico. She proposes that the North American region is generating compound identities that allow migrants and their children to belong to multiple cultures, territories, and jobs that facilitate these young people’s resilience in their life cycles.

This article discusses the impact of nafta on the Mexican film industry with special emphasis on the effects of neoliberal ideology, both on film audiences and its contents. It describes an industry that caters exclusively to the economic elites, blindly following the logic of economic optimization and foregoing any attempt at a cinematic project rooted in national culture. The author then analyzes Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros (2014) as an interesting case study illustrating the difficulties of trying to resist neoliberalism after decades of living in a society and working inside a film industry strongly shaped by its ideology.

This article analyzes the debate over the origins of the Great Recession in the United States. The author analyzes three perspectives: the first is the position spearheaded by John B. Taylor, who proposes the Great Deviation. The second is that of Alan Greenspan, Donald L. Khon, Ben S. Bernanke, Frederic S. Mishkin, and Lars E. O. Svensson, who attribute the crisis to a global imbalance between savings and investment. The third is the point of view of Robert Hetzel, Anna Schwartz, and Alan Meltzer, well-known inheritors of the monetarist tradition, who all accuse the authorities of having provoked the crisis and implemented the wrong responses. In conclusion, the author presents the opinion of two Nobel Prize winners in economics, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz.

This article analyzes the growing role of multinational companies in agri-food chains and their impact on the structure of local production and agricultural labor through the case study of berries grown in the Oxnard, California, area and Mexican immigrant farm workers. She looks specifically at the strategic management of agreements on supply, agricultural technology, and land by commercial companies, together with the effects of partial harvest mechanization and the multi-level system of labor intermediation. The author observes how the evolution of agri-food capital, which according to the analysis of the food regime, constitutes a reorganization of capital in general, influences both the circulation of capital and the social relations of production. She has based her research on a combination of quantitative and, above all, qualitative, techniques.

This article analyzes the consolidation of irregular migration in the United States in history. First, the author reviews the immigration control laws and policies since its regulation began. Secondly, she analyzes their role in the consolidation of irregular immigration, concluding that they fail to produce the desired results because they have contributed to an increase in irregular migration, the exact opposite of their objectives of control and reduction. She also puts forward the idea that a certain amount of irregular immigration could decrease if the laws’ defects and irrationalities were addressed.

One of the highest binational population and remittance exchanges in the world occurs between Mexico and the United States. Building on social capital theory, this study investigated the relationship between household remittance receipt and the migration intentions of 980 Mexican adolescents living along the border. Hierarchical regressions revealed that the receipt of remittances predicted the self-reported desire to live in and intentions to move to the United States after high school graduation. Having a parent in the U.S. was related to intentions to migrate, but did not change the relationship between remittances and migration intentions. The author draws implications for policy and future research.