Oral presentation 2: Spaces & Exchanges

Documents

Why a wall won't stop immigration

Illegal immigrants: one story

Axe I: Two different spaces, or one space, cut in half? The relation between the two sides of the border

Axe 2: Common exchanges in the area, across a border

Building a wall

Nelson Omar Chillel Lopes

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

Reuniting with his mom in the US

Coyotes left him behind

Died of dehydration
in the Sonoran Desert

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.

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

Geographically

Politically

One space, cut in half

Culturally and historically

Two spaces

Differences

Human development #

Currency

Wealth: document 2 explains the low wages and poor working conditions on one side of the border

Education

One space, cut in half

Shared hispanic culture: document 1 shows a Mexican family in the US

One greater Mexico

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

Villages common to both countries: document 1

The flux of people

Traffickers across the border

The flow of products

Circular flow: document 1, which explains how people move between the spaces

Coyotes: document 2

Coffee: document 2, the poverty that comes from coffee consumption

Manufactured wares

Drugs and other illegal products

People in search of better wages: document 2, and the story of Fermina

Introduction

Conclusion

Definition of the notion

Insight into what we saw in class

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

Summary of the documents

Answer to the problematic

2 clear spaces

Many kinds
of exchanges

Exchanges

Spaces

This notion deals with the idea of giving one thing and receiving another in return

Forms

Work

Economic

Goods

Ideas

Information

Education

Borders

People: migration

Countries

Places where these exchanges take place

Immaterial / virtual spaces

Stock exchange

The internet

Economic

Social

Political

Personal opinion

Illustrates the notion of exchanges well

Border situation

Context of the inequalities that harsh border enforcement isn't solving

Arise from suffering

Latin American immigration in the US

The bad luck to be born in the wrong end of the production chain

Should not be understood as an isolated issue