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Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future
No full textWhile Donald Trump received overwhelming support from farming-dependent counties during the 2024 presidential election, the consequences for farmers seem far from favorable. Deportation threats against the workforce, the cancelation of contracts with food banks and usaid, the freezing of funds tied to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act—which included
139.6 billion in 2018—3 pose a complicated scenario for farms across the country. As to the impact of immigrant raids on farms, it’s worth noting that, according to the Center for Migration Studies, 86 percent of farm workers are foreign born, and 45 percent are undocumented. So,
have Trump’s threats around mass deportation crystalized? Have they scared agricultural workers into staying home? Are crops rotting in the fields
Our Voice
Full text linkFood nourishes bodies, but it also carries histories, expresses values, and connects people to entire ecosystems and social structures. As a result of decades of research and dialogue across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, we now have a remarkably vast body of knowledge demonstrating that food’s significance extends far beyond its nutritional value. While access to sufficient, nutritious food remains a pressing issue for many communities due to inequality, war, displacement, and climate change, questions of identity often take center stage when considering what we choose—or refuse—to put on our plates. In planning this issue, we sought to emphasize the symbolic, narrative, and affective dimensions of food. By centering the concept of “voice,” we bring attention to how food production, culinary practices, appetites, and consumption habits serve as eloquent expressions, conveying meanings that might otherwise be difficult to articulate in a more straightforward manner. Food speaks of origins, aspirations, delight, and conviviality—but also of loss, erasure, and exclusion
Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future
No full textTrumpism is one of the world’s authoritarian pivots. It would be wrong to think that it represents a moment within democratic normalcy and is just an example of rotation in office in the United States. Trump is an authoritarian leader who has legitimately risen to office through elections, and once in office, he has begun a series of actions against his adversaries and critical publics, intimidating the media and universities, abolishing affirmative action programs, and centralizing decisions. His actions and narrative subvert the rules, institutions, and democratic values
Does the Voice of Migrant Food Exist?
Full text linkMigration begins with the search for food. It is not the foundation of human existence: it is a response to the need to survive, to feed ourselves. Food in cities as we know them—with all the foods we might fancy available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—seems completely normal to us, but historically is anything but normal, since “for millions of years our forebears were in direct contact with the food they consumed, gathering wild plants and hunting wild animals, moving from place to place at nature’s pace, following the seasons and animal migrations.” As a result, migration was inextricably linked to our diet; it is a cornerstone of the human-food relationship
Influencia de las Redes Virtuales en la Transmisión de Información y Conocimiento de la Música del Mariachi en Estados Unidos
No full textLa música del mariachi en Estados Unidos es, en la actualidad, una manifestación cultural que se desarrolla y se aprecia por audiencias fundamentalmente localizadas en ciudades con grandes concentraciones de población latina y, especialmente, de origen mexicano. Lejos está de ser una manifestación principal en la muy amplia gama de la cultura musical en Estados Unidos, no obstante, responde a aspectos relacionados con la identidad de estas poblaciones como el idioma, la idiosincrasia y otros valores familiares tradicionales que se mantienen entre generaciones, los cuales dan un sentido de pertenencia y cohesión a estas comunidades.
Se considera que el mariachi surgió hacia finales del siglo xix en la región occidental de México; a lo largo del tiempo, se ha transformado de diversas formas, desde los instrumentos y géneros musicales que incorpora, el repertorio que se ejecuta, la vestimenta que lo distingue y también la participación cada vez mayor de mujeres en la conformación de los grupos. Hacia mediados del siglo xx logró su mayor expansión y presencia en el mercado artístico y cultural de la nación (tanto por las grabaciones discográficas como por su éxito al incorporarse en la industria del cine mexicano), e igualmente lo hizo en el mercado internacional fundamentalmente de habla hispana. De hecho, el mariachi se convirtió en un icono cultural de México. La formación de grupos de mariachi en Estados Unidos tiene también una larga historia, su desarrollo cultural se difunde y se mantiene a través de múltiples medios. Especialmente, han sido importantes los proyectos educativos en música, conferencias y festivales del mariachi, muchos de ellos establecidos desde los años ochenta y que continúan vigentes hasta nuestros días
In Memoriam
No full textProfessor Jeffrey G. Reitz was born in Minnesota, lived in Toronto, and recently died in Mexico. A genuinely North American, according to his partner, Donna Gray. Admired by many across the continent and beyond, Jeff was a renowned figure amongst immigration scholars and policymakers for his rigorous and engaging research, two elements that characterized him until his very last day. His latest book, Reshaping the Mosaic: Canadian Immigration Policy in the 21st Century, with Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock (2025), stands as one of his final contributions to the field where, together with his collaborators, he sought to make sense of the most recent transformations in Canadian immigration policy, offering clarity, context, and a critical lens to help shape the national conversation he cared so deeply about
Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future
No full textMexico’s relationship with the United States is unique internationally due to geographical proximity, the size of its trade ties—currently strained—, but above all to the human interactions it implies, because of the innumerable Mexican migrants that have made the United State their home since the midnineteenth century
Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future
No full textDonald Trump’s inauguration for his second presidency on January 20, 2025, made for a change in the most important paradigms in the relationship between the United States and its neighbors: Canada and Mexico have gone from being strategic trading partners to countries that “cheat” the United States and who should be subject to containment policies for such drastic problems as trade, migration, and drug trafficking. Trump has transformed the paradigm by cataloguing his country, a country of “immigrants,” to a territory threatened by foreigners
