Examining the long-lasting effects of European
colonization on Mexican populations
The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally
...and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the
years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521.
Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from
archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the
response to European colonization, providing evidence for the
resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous
change.
Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a
cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars'
work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the
castas system-which the colonizers used to organize
society according to parentage and the social construction of
race-on individuals' and groups' access to power, social mobility,
health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly
understood extent that this system-and the national identity of
mestizaje that replaced it-caused inequality and the
structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as
genetic admixture.
Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec
forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to
discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial
relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and
scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how
human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major
historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and
social upheaval.
Contributors: Josefina Bautista Martínez |
Alfredo Coppa | Andrea Cucina | Heather J. H. Edgar | Blanca Z.
González-Sobrino | María Teresa Jaén Esquivel | Haagen D. Klaus |
Michaela Lucci | Abigail Meza-Peñaloza | Emily Moes | Corey S.
Ragsdale | Katelyn M. Rusk | Robert C. Schwaller | Julie K. Wesp |
Cathy Willermet
A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the
Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by
Clark Spencer Larsen
During the colonial period, thousands of North American Native peoples traveled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats, missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were forcibly ...transported as captives, slaves, indentured laborers, or prisoners of war. Over the half millennium after Spanish contact, Cuba served as the principal destination and residence of peoples as diverse as the Yucatec Mayas of Mexico; the Calusa, Timucua, Creek, and Seminole peoples of Florida; and the Apache and Puebloan cultures of the northern provinces of New Spain. In this first history of the significant and diverse Amerindian presence in Cuba during and well beyond the early colonial period, Yaremko demonstrates the diverse, multifaceted, and dynamic nature of the indigenous diaspora in colonial Cuba.
Acknowledging these groups' role in geopolitical, diplomatic, economic, and diasporic processes, Yaremko argues that these migrants played an essential role in the historical development of Cuba. With case studies and documentation from various sites, Yaremko's narrative presents a fuller history of Amerindian migration and diaspora in Cuba and the rest of Latin America.
The previous literature suggests that citizens calculate the benefits of immigrants by assessing their impact on economic prospects. This paper argues that a type of social demand-the demand for ...marriage-also induces support for more liberal immigration policies. We conducted a survey experiment with 3,000 adults in China, where the population faces a shortage of women in the marriage market. The respondents were assigned to four groups, namely, a control group, a group with low-skilled worker shortage cues, a group with high-skilled worker shortage cues, and a group with marriage market crisis cues. We found that the marriage crisis treatment was effective to male respondents but not to female respondents. A supplementary examination of cross-national survey data showed that a gender imbalance at birth can elicit citizens' higher support for immigration in 13 Asian countries/regions. The results show that, other than economic considerations, citizens' concerns about marriage market competition can also stimulate immigration support.
This study describes the Schengen Information System and its implementation in France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and the availability of effective remedies for third-country nationals.
Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of ...Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool.
During the summer of 2018, the US government detained thousands of migrant parents and their separated children pursuant to its zero-tolerance policy at the United States-Mexico border. The ensuing ...media storm generated unprecedented public awareness about immigration detention. The recency of this public attention belies a long-standing immigration enforcement practice that has generated a growing body of research in the past couple of decades. I take stock of this research, focusing on the causes, conditions, and consequences of immigration detention in the United States. I also discuss critical tasks for future research, including (
a
) examining the role of local governments, the private prison industry, and decision makers responsible for release decisions in maintaining the detention system; (
b
) extending the field of inquiry to less-visible detainee populations and detention facility guards and staff, for a fuller understanding of detention conditions; and (
c
) investigating not only direct but also indirect consequences of detention.
Estimates suggest that approximately 16.6 million people in the United States are members of mixed-status families composed of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens or documented immigrants. ...Drawing on interviews with 32 undocumented 1.5-generation parents, the author explores how immigration laws affect undocumented parents and their citizen children. She finds that U.S. citizen children and their undocumented parents often share in the risks and limitations associated with undocumented immigration status. She conceptualizes this phenomenon as multigenerational punishment, a distinct form of legal violence wherein the sanctions intended for a specific population spill over to negatively affect individuals who are not targeted by laws. Though not restricted to familial relationships, multigenerational punishment tends to occur within families because of the strong social ties, sustained day-to-day interactions, and dependent relationships found among family members. This sheds light on how laws can further the reproduction of inequality within families and over generations.
This study examines how ethnic diversity and immigration at the national level influence individual perceptions toward immigrants in a cross-national context. Including both Western and non-Western ...countries, we specifically explore whether cumulative exposure to ethnic diversity and the current size of immigrants have dissimilar effects on individual perceptions. Results from multilevel regression analysis suggest that the level of ethnic diversity is positively associated with perceptions toward immigrants, while the number of immigrants is negatively related to immigrant perceptions. Furthermore, we find that social capital matters in reshaping these relationships: At least for individuals having high levels of social capital, the relationship between living in an ethnically diverse society and their favorable perceptions toward immigrants is strengthened while the association between observing a large number of immigrants and having negative perceptions is weakened. This research provides implications for understanding cross-national difference of individual perceptions on immigrants in our diversifying world.
Many US immigrant populations develop metabolic diseases post immigration, but the causes are not well understood. Although the microbiome plays a role in metabolic disease, there have been no ...studies measuring the effects of US immigration on the gut microbiome. We collected stool, dietary recalls, and anthropometrics from 514 Hmong and Karen individuals living in Thailand and the United States, including first- and second-generation immigrants and 19 Karen individuals sampled before and after immigration, as well as from 36 US-born European American individuals. Using 16S and deep shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing, we found that migration from a non-Western country to the United States is associated with immediate loss of gut microbiome diversity and function in which US-associated strains and functions displace native strains and functions. These effects increase with duration of US residence and are compounded by obesity and across generations.
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•US immigration is associated with loss of gut microbiome diversity•US immigrants lose bacterial enzymes associated with plant fiber degradation•Bacteroides strains displace Prevotella strains according to time spent in the USA•Loss of diversity increases with obesity and is compounded across generations
Migration from a non-western nation to the United States is found to be associated with a loss in gut microbiome diversity and function in a manner that may predispose individuals to metabolic disease.
Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health Castañeda, Heide; Holmes, Seth M; Madrigal, Daniel S ...
Annual review of public health,
03/2015, Volume:
36, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom been applied in this ...area. Global patterns of morbidity and mortality follow inequities rooted in societal, political, and economic conditions produced and reproduced by social structures, policies, and institutions. The lack of dialogue between these two profoundly related phenomena-social determinants of health and immigration-has resulted in missed opportunities for public health research, practice, and policy work. In this article, we discuss primary frameworks used in recent public health literature on the health of immigrant populations, note gaps in this literature, and argue for a broader examination of immigration as both socially determined and a social determinant of health. We discuss priorities for future research and policy to understand more fully and respond appropriately to the health of the populations affected by this global phenomenon.
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