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Oral presentation 2: Spaces & Exchanges
Documents
Why a wall won't stop immigration
Building a wall
Expensive to build and to maintain
Would increase the number of immigrants in the country
Circular flow
Immigrants travel by plane
Geographically impossible
Would cut through villages
This document is a video, produced by the internet comedy site CollegeHumor.com and published on YouTube, with the aim of deconstructing a widespread opinion on the border wall between Mexico and the US with the help of humor.
Illegal immigrants: one story
Nelson Omar Chillel Lopes
Reuniting with his mom in the US
Coyotes left him behind
Died of dehydration
in the Sonoran Desert
This document is a short news video, called “Illegal Immigrants Face Dangerous Mexican/US Border — One Story”. It was produced by the Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera and published in the United States on April the 8th, 2014 in its YouTube channel.
Aim
Make us rethink our position on Latin American immigration in the US
Make us consider the polemic on illegal immigration through the immigrants’ perspective
Axe I: Two different spaces, or one space, cut in half? The relation between the two sides of the border
Geographically
One space, cut in half
Common biome and terrain
Shared Rio Grande
Mountains: document 1: a wall would cross through the geographical features
Desert: document 2, the immigrants crossing through the region + scenario on document 1
Politically
Two spaces
Differences
Human development
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Currency
Wealth: document 2 explains the low wages and poor working conditions on one side of the border
Education
Culturally and historically
One space, cut in half
Shared hispanic culture: document 1 shows a Mexican family in the US
One greater Mexico
Villages common to both countries: document 1
Axe 2: Common exchanges in the area, across a border
The flux of people
Circular flow: document 1, which explains how people move between the spaces
People in search of better wages: document 2, and the story of Fermina
Traffickers across the border
Coyotes: document 2
Drugs and other illegal products
The flow of products
Coffee: document 2, the poverty that comes from coffee consumption
Manufactured wares
Introduction
Definition of the notion
Exchanges
This notion deals with the idea of giving one thing and receiving another in return
Forms
Work
Economic
Goods
Ideas
Information
Education
People: migration
Economic
Social
Political
Spaces
Borders
Countries
Places where these exchanges take place
Immaterial / virtual spaces
Stock exchange
The internet
Insight into what we saw in class
Latin American immigration in the US
Problématiques
To which extent can the notion
of spaces and exchanges be applied to the Mexico-US border?
To which extent do these two documents illustrate the notion of spaces and exchanges?
Annonce des documents
Conclusion
Summary of the documents
Answer to the problematic
2 clear spaces
Many kinds
of exchanges
Personal opinion
Illustrates the notion of exchanges well
Border situation
Context of the inequalities that harsh border enforcement isn't solving
Arise from suffering
The bad luck to be born in the wrong end of the production chain
Should not be understood as an isolated issue