Immigration from Mexico has been a hot topic of discussion just as immigration has been an issue many years ago
whether they be from Europe or Asian areas. The reason that migrants from Mexico is such a big issue is because
ultimately the United States took land away from Mexicans during the Mexican American war and treaty of Guadalupe
Hildago. Migrant Imaginaries describes a social imaginary where people articulate their social being. This migrants were
displaced from their land and were forced to either deal with these conditions or go back past the newly drawn lines into
Mexico. This book questions the issues of cultural citizenship, which is the interaction between culture and claims to
citizenship. Mexican or chicano people, whether legal citizens or not, are still looked down upon because many people
think that they are illegal just because of the stigma. People see these groups of people as taking jobs from the US and
using tax dollars that they don't have to pay if they are not legal citizens. These are a few stereotypes that these
people experience, but in reality this is not necessarily true. I found this photo on the internet shows the previous Mexican border but is also an advertisement.
It uses the Spanish language and says "In an Absolut World." This is questioning the border of the US in the media
which is something that doesn't happen often. That fact is problematic in itself that we do not talk about these issues
as much as we should.
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