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MIGRATION OF LATINO MEN TO THE U.S

MIGRATION OF LATINO MEN TO THE U.S.: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

Except for a few refugees from Haiti and Castro's Cuba, the vast majority of Latino men entering the U.S.- legally or illegally- come for economic reasons. They come, perhaps somewhat naively, expecting the streets to be paved with gold, or, at the very least, opportunities galore for making money and either sending it back "home" or enough to bring their families Northward. Latino men flee their countries because of warfare, or rebellion which causes numerous casualties. They also come because of natural disasters- floods, earthquakes, drought, hurricanes, volcano eruptions, etc. They come with one goal: to safeguard themselves and their families and to take advantage of all they have heard about opportunities for them in America.

Yet, they have literally left the frying pan to migrate into the fire. They face not merely prejudice from the white population, anger from African-Americans who see these new arrivals as undercutting their low-paying jobs, but also from American-born Latinos. The fact that Latinos, especially Latino men, are no longer congregating in border towns is cause for alarm among various groups. "Brown is moving West to East, South to North. Brown terrifies the skinhead in Colorado, bewilders the African-American historian." (Rodriguez 1998 1)

One problem, in assessing the migration of Latino men is that, perhaps for the first time in their lives, they are facing racial prejudice in the land where they expected opportunity to open up for them. Latino men say that it was not until they arrived in the U.S. that they began to face the polarizing aspects of race. For the first time, many of them were made to feel inferior- and there seemed to be a "pecking order"- the lighter skinned Latinos seemed to be more "acceptable" than those of darker skin. Too many Latinos are lumped in with the black minorities. Still, many bristle at being w...

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