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"After Papa Died": A Mexican-American Autobiography Annotated and Edited by Shea Van Slyke

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Zoraida Ladrón de Guevarra was born in 1936 in Coyula, Mexico, a small village in the state of Oaxaca. Her father’s passing required Zoraida to find a job at age fourteen to support her family. Her story, a 200-page memoir entitled “After Papa Died,” follows Zoraida’s time as a servant…

Zoraida Ladrón de Guevarra was born in 1936 in Coyula, Mexico, a small village in the state of Oaxaca. Her father’s passing required Zoraida to find a job at age fourteen to support her family. Her story, a 200-page memoir entitled “After Papa Died,” follows Zoraida’s time as a servant and eventual nanny in Veracruz. Flashing back to memories of her hometown and the people living in it, the story ends before she enters America first as a visitor in 1954, and later on a working Visa in 1957—the first woman in her village to leave to the United States. Hers is a story relevant today, evident with the paradoxes explored between poverty and riches, patriarchy and matriarchy, freedom and captivity. Assimilation impacts the reading of this memoir, as Zoraida began writing the memoir in her 80s (around fifty years after gaining American citizenship). This detailed family history is about the nature of memory, community, and in particular, the experience of being an immigrant. This thesis project centers on this text and includes three components: an edited memoir, informational interviews, and an introduction. Beginning as a diary steeped in the tradition of oral history, the memoir required a “translation” into a written form; chapters and chronological continuity helped with organization. Topics of interest from the story, such as identity, domestic violence, and religion, are further explored in a series of interviews with Zoraida. The inclusion of an introduction to the text contextualizes the stories documented in the memoir with supplemental information. The contents of the project are housed on a website: alongwaybabyproject.net.
ContributorsVan Slyke, Shea Elizabeth (Author) / Meloy, Elizabeth (Thesis director) / O'Flaherty, Katherine (Committee member) / Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-05
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U.S. Immigration Law and the Public Charge Doctrine

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The words "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" presents the United States with a unique dilemma: balancing a welcoming signal to immigrants abroad, with the right to exercise its sovereignty and "[F]orbid the entrance of foreigners to its territory in general or in…

The words "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" presents the United States with a unique dilemma: balancing a welcoming signal to immigrants abroad, with the right to exercise its sovereignty and "[F]orbid the entrance of foreigners to its territory in general or in particular cases, or to certain persons or for certain particular purposes; according as it may think it to be advantageous . . ." Regulating persons who take the pledge inscribed in the Statue of Liberty literal and immigrate to the United States, has been at the heart of American immigration regulation since early times. Principally, early American immigration policy focused on the detection and exclusion of the poor, those likely to become a public charge. This thesis presents a general analysis of public charge and discusses the evolution and application of the statute given the development and modifications to U.S. immigration law from 1875 to 1996. In the first section I discuss the efforts of the colonies and the states to regulate persons that are likely to become a public charge. Second, I offer an analysis of the role of public charge in shifting immigration policy from a state driven mechanism to a federal responsibility. The section that follows discusses discretion as a central element in public charge determinations. Accordingly, I also examine the impact of the discretion afforded to immigration authorities by the public charge statute for medical, race and gender based exclusions. Next, this thesis brings into focus the integration of public assistance policy with immigration policy. Finally, the last section presents public charge as a decree that today is more objective.
ContributorsDe La Cruz, Luis Alfonso (Author) / Cruz, Evelyn (Thesis director) / Plascencia, Luis F. B. (Committee member) / Goddard, Terry (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Management (Contributor) / W. P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
Created2013-05