What draws workers from all over Latin American, and specifically Mexico to the border? What are their expectations versus the reality they encounter?

Answer the following questions based on your reading and understanding of these articles: the articles are in additional materials

For these sets of questions please use the article called “Transcending borders”

1. What draws workers from all over Latin American, and specifically Mexico to the border? What are their expectations versus the reality they encounter?

2. Utilizing the stories of the workers featured in the article, what is their experience like once they arrive at the border?

3. What are some of the strategies utilized by those drawn to the border to improve not only their experience but the lives of others facing their same struggles?

For the next question please use the article called “Cultural Identities on the Mexico-United States Border”

1. How are cultural identities shaped by the border for those living on both the Mexican side and the U.S. side?

And for these last questions please use the readings called “United States-Mexico: Borderlands/Frontera” and the reading called “Living on the Border: A Wound that Will Not Heal”

1. What is the history of the people who inhabit the border region?

2. What are some of the characteristics of the people who live in the borderlands?

3. When the border is described as a wound that will not heal what exactly is the author referring to?

FORMATTING

12 point Times New Roman Font
Answer each question in paragraph form (3-5 sentences)
Include the question before each paragraph answer
No more than 15% of your answers should include quotes
if you include a quote, be sure to include analysis of the quote to denote why you included the quote in your answer

Your assignment submission will be check for plagiarism. Be sure to use the assigned article as the basis of your answers–this means that you are not to just Google the answers and instead demonstrate that you both READ and UNDERSTOOD the assigned article.

Please make sure the answers are specific and not broad because the professor is strict on the answers being to vague and would rather them be specific

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