Announcements Fri - Tadiar and Sulit readings Mon – guest speaker & reflection paper #2 due Final projects: How are interviews going? Final paper: How do the stories told in their interviews show you the impact of the larger social forces of racism, (hetero)patriarchy, colonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, etc on these individual subjects’ lives? Simultaneously, how do these interviews show you the ways in which these women cannot simply be reduced to these larger social forces (i.e. how do they express their own agency and resistance)?
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Announcements
Fri - Tadiar and Sulit readingsMon – guest speaker & reflection paper #2 dueFinal projects:
How are interviews going?Final paper:
How do the stories told in their interviews show you the impact of the larger social forces of racism, (hetero)patriarchy, colonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, etc on these individual subjects’ lives?
Simultaneously, how do these interviews show you the ways in which these women cannot simply be reduced to these larger social forces (i.e. how do they express their own agency and resistance)?
H1B VISAS AND THE POLITICS OF LOCATION
Weak Winners of Globalization
(il)legal workers
1965 Immigration Act: explosion of Asian immigration + shutting down of Mexican immigration
Context of Cold War US economy: legal Asian workers come in
as skilled/professional labor to develop industries
Illegal Mexican aliens power agricultural and service industries, continue legacy of marginalized, racialized, low-wage labor
H-1B Visa
Nonimmigrant visa program H1 created in 1950s – had to prove
intent to return home 1970 – could result in permanent
positions 1980s – H1-B introduced to cap
increasing #s to placate labor organizations
Foreign workers with “specialized knowledge & skills” in “specialty occupation”
DoL attempts to protect both foreign and native worker (64)
“technocoolies”
1992-2003: over one million H-1Bs
2001 – 49% from IndiaFailures of H-1B
No required prior notice of termination
Cannot remain in country for more than 10 days if job is lost
Less wages, more hours, few benefits
Blaming H-1B worker naturalizes systemic exploitation (60)
The Game of Globalization
Powerful losers in the North Displaced American white-collar
workersWeak winners of the South
(non)immigrant H-1B holdersPowerful winners of
transnational corporations Sponsoring companies that
profit from flexible laborNecessity of a politics of