Migration Studies

"Ιmmigration is closely related with the mode of capitalist development and seems to have particular characteristics during the era of globalization. During the last decade (2000-2010) many Mexican immigrants moved towards the big cities of the United States, mainly in city-areas that are treated as "new hyper-ghetto" with particular socio-economic and cultural characteristics. In some of these neighborhoods, as in East Harlem, New York, immigrants resist against the expansion of “gentrification”, and they become the core of the “movement for Justice in the barrio”. This movement links its struggle with the struggle of the people of Mexico and responds to the call "the other campaign" of Zapatistas (EZLN) for a diverse movement “from the bottom left” joining the insurgent dignities. This article explores the historical and geographical context where the “movement for Justice in the barrio” has been developed and attempts a complex analysis of the whole issue. It finally concludes that this movement is a contemporary urban social movement with glocal characteristics.
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In the postwar period, demographers and politicians both recognised that marriage was a good indicator of migrant assimilation. Getting married indicated a commitment to making Australia home, and to the new domesticated version of the ‘Australian way of life’. Patterns of intermarriage were especially suggestive of the willingness of migrants to  marry outside of their ethnic group, and of Australian society to accept migrants as marriage partners. Yet, the labour imperatives of the postwar immigration program also produced a surplus of men across a number of ethnic groups, some of whom became ‘hard-core’ bachelors. Read in the context of a persistent imbalance of the sexes, it is argued that marriage also revealed the limits of assimilation.