DEPORTEDChapter One: Growing Up: Yearning for a New Life

Class Goals

• Develop an understanding of the structural roots of migration.

• Be able to connect individual migration stories to broader trends.

Why do people emigrate?

How is Jamaica’s integration into

the global economy related

to emigration from Jamaica?

How did U.S. intervention in Guatemala create more emigration?

How do neoliberal policies promote emigration?

How is immigration related to globalization?

• Many people migrate to the U.S. where they work in service-sector jobs opened up by outsourcing.

How is economic restructuring related to globalization?

Where do immigrants fit into this?

How has globalization facilitated the movement of capital yet restricted the movement of people?

Questions for discussion

• Can you choose one of the deportee stories in the book and connect it to broader trends?

• Why are Guatemalans and Brazilians more likely than Dominicans or Jamaicans to be undocumented?

• Brazil has one of the largest economies in the world. How can we explain Brazilian migration to the United States in this context?

Class Goals: RECAP

• Develop an understanding of the structural roots of migration.

• Be able to connect individual migration stories to broader trends.