Ali Sparks

1/23/2011
IB Anthropology
Period 2

Questions for Shadowed Lives

Introduction

1. What countries do immigrations leave Third World countries for?

2. How long is the US and Mexico Border?
3. What is the difference between a “migrant” and a “settler”?
4. What is another name for a immigrants transition phase?
5. What is the strategy that the anthropologist is going to be using?
6. What four main countries in Central America are the immigrants from?
7. What is it so hard to find the undocumented immigrants?
8. Which organization does Chavez contact first (and gets the first response?)
9. Why are there more Hispanic labor workers than Asian?
10. Which two regions made up for 95% of the undocumented immigrants in 1988?

Chapter One
1. What terms do the undocumented immigrants use from themselves?
2. What are the three regions in which the undocumented immigrants usually travel
to?
3. Which three decade were “anti-immigrant” periods?
4. What is the estimated number of illegal immigrants living in the United States?
5. How much did a member of the Country Board of Supervisors say that was spent
on jail cost, health care, and court cost for undocumented immigrants?
6. What was the law in 1986 designed to do?

Chapter Two
1. What is a popular theme in Mexican songs?
2. Do the reasons for leaving their country differ on ones marital status or age?
3. What is a “rancho”?
4. In 1970 how many US dollars was Enrique Valenzula making?
5. What is one major theme why undocumented immigrants leave their homes?
6. Who is a “target earners”?
7. In 1982 the Mexican economy encountered a ___ ___________?
8. Why do undocumented immigrants think that they faced limited economic
opportunities in Mexico?
9. What is the “immigrant’s dream”?
10. What do the immigrants think will happen when they travel north?
11. How do women’s reasons for immigrating differ from men’s?
12. What did Maria Delgado do with her children when she immigrated?
13. Do people immigrate because of their families? List two examples
14. How long had it been since Beatriz Valenzeuela had seen her mother?
 Ali Sparks
1/23/2011
IB Anthropology
Period 2
15. Does the factor of “adventure” have anything to do with the immigration? Why or
why not?
16. What did one man say about coming to Hollywood?
17. What historical connections to immigrants from Mexico have with San Diego that
others don’t?
18. Why did immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua say they came
to the USA?