Stephen Nathan Haymes

Mexican Migration-Corridor Hospitality

The world total of international migrants has more than doubled in 25 years, with roughly 25 million added in just the first 5 years of the twenty-first century. The number of international migrants is greater today than at any other time in history, with 214 million, or one in every 35 persons worldwide living outside their country of birth. Nowhere is the trend of international migration more marked than in North America between Mexico and the United States. With an estimated 4.4 million foreign-born residents, the United States is the country with the largest immigrant population in the world. This figure amounts to 13 percent of the total current U.S. population. In contrast, Mexico leads the world as a source country for international migrants and represents 29.5 percent of the total foreign-born population residing in the United States.

Poverty, Incarceration: A Brief Introduction

Thanks in no small part to the successes of an unrelenting activist community, along with a growing contingent of engaged academics interested in questions of mass incarceration, and the fiscal constraints of a recessed economy, the gargantuan expansion of the U.S. prison system has garnered considerable attention in recent years. The prison has been theorized as a geographically bounded physical structure designed to warehouse, punish, and in previous historic moments, rehabilitate the convicted, and as a social institution with influence that reverberates throughout social life (Cohen, 1985; Garland, 2001; Wacquant, 2009; Western, 2006). Indeed, the practices of punishment have been implicated in theories of social solidarity, conflict, reproduction, and maintenance (Garland, 1990). Whether it is viewed as an instrument of domination that promotes inequality across social strata (Davis, 2001), a geographic solution to social problems in the United States (Gilmore, 2007), or a form of poverty governance, producing particular ways of being in the social world (Foucault, 1977), especially for those most affected by it, the importance of the prison in the current age, and shadow that it casts over the life worlds of the poor in particular cannot be overstated (Wacquant, 2009; Western, 2006). The guest editors of this special issue sought contributions that would help break scholarship on poverty, punishment, and the criminal justice system out of the “crime and punishment poke” (Wacquant, 2009, p. 287), bringing critical analysis of mass incarceration into dialogue with literature

Welcome to the Editorship of the Journal of Poverty

As we start the new volume of the Journal of Poverty, we would like to officially welcome Dr. Llewellyn J. Cornelius, the Donald Lee Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice Studies and Director Center for Social Justice, Civil and Human Rights at the University of Georgia Athens to the editorship of the Journal of Poverty. His research focuses on empirically documenting barriers of access to health care, mental health services, social services, educational opportunities and employment opportunities for underserved populations. It also focuses on engaging communities as co-partners in the design and implementation of interventions that improve the overall health and well-being of disadvantaged populations locally, national and globally.

Another Kind of Rainbow Politics

Abstract Race has been a particularly troublesome concept in the United States. It is especially problematic as it is applied to Latinos. While several perspectives are presented to examine race, race relations, and racial dynamics regarding Latinos in the U.S., this essay primarily relies on Omi and Winants racial formation theory as a means for understanding the position of Latinos in the racial hierarchy of the United States. The authors argue that the experience of Latinos in the U.S. has taken place within a “racial” context, and as a result, have been involved in a racialization process throughout their history in this country. More specifically, the authors identify several contradictory racial projects that have shaped our current views of Latinos as a “racial group”: Latinos as a panethnic group, a rainbow race and a race towards whiteness. These Latino racial projects are discussed within a racial formation framework. Furthermore, the role that the state plays in shaping the contours of race relations regarding Latinos is examined.

In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression and The New American Ghetto

(1997). In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression and The New American Ghetto. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 138-141.