Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 244754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfaro-Velcamp |
| SIGNATURE | ALFARO-VELCAMP T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sonoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9926-330X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Getting angry with honest people’: The illicit market for immigrant ‘papers’ in Cape Town, South Africa
South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials ‘seem to get angry with honest people’, shared a Congolese immigrant from the Kivu region who now resides in Cape Town. Some DHA officials get money through illicit transactions for ‘papers’ and they become visibly frustrated with immigrants who try to obtain documents by lawful means. While there has been much focus on xenophobia associated with immigration in South Africa, there has been …
Please GO Home and Build Africa: Criminalising Immigrants in South Africa
In April 2015, a Whatsapp text message instructed millions of African immigrants in South Africa to go home. The message drew on xenophobia and afrophobia to criminalise African immigrants in South Africa. Broadly, immigrants are seen as breaking the law by illegally crossing a sovereign border and becoming illegal foreigners. Having entered the country without authorisation ('papers'), these foreigners become perceived as drug dealers, trafficke…
The Vulnerability of Immigrants in Research: Enhancing Protocol Development and Ethics Review
Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960
Julia María Schiavone Camacho’s book, entitled Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910 – 1960, is a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship on Mexican diaspora studies and immigrant self-positioning. Schiavone Camacho uncovers and documents the history of roughly 500 Chinese Mexicans who left Mexico and repatriated. These are Chinese men who married Mexican women and were forced to leave Mexico, Mexican…
Arab “Amirka”: Exploring Arab Diasporas in Mexico and the United States
Many Arab immigrants came to the Americas—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina (to name only a few countries)—primarily with the intent to make money quickly and return home. Their enduring presence, however, is marked by ambiguous categorizations of Arabs in the United States and Mexico that relate to confusions of place, people, and history. The article is divided into six sections. In the first section, I describe the complex categ…
Immigration and Techniques of Governance in Mexico and the United States: Recalibrating National Narratives through Comparative Immigration Histories
Immigration histories typically endeavor to describe and hold a nation–state accountable not only for the laws and policies by which it admits some immigrants, but also for those by which it refuses, excludes, or deports other immigrants. This article explores immigration to Mexico and to the United States with attention to its implications for the status of persons, and also for the conventional historical narratives in each country. The article…
Nación y extranjería: La exclusión racial en las políticas migratorias de Argentina, Brasil, Cuba, y México
Nativism, the idea of intense opposition to an internal minority because it is foreign, is a major theme in US immigration scholarship, and Nación y extranjería reveals its significance in case studies throughout Latin America. In this eight-essay compilation, Pablo Yankelevich coordinates the work of an international group of scholars who examine how nativism influenced emerging Latin American nation-states in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included comprehensive data collection from more than 8,000 original immigration cards as well as studies of decades of legal publications and the collection of hist…
Reelizing” Arab and Jewish Ethnicity in Mexican Film
As a historian of Mexican history who studies Middle Eastern immigrants to Mexico in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I have approached the topic of ethnic film with both trepidation and great interest. Attuned to the historiography of what and who is Mexican, I view the films El baisano Jalil and Novia que te vea for their representations of ethnic difference and suggestions of a multicultural Mexico. Here, I wish to explore how thes…
Immigrant Positioning in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Middle Easterners, Foreign Citizens, and Multiculturalism
In October 2002, Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in Latin America and a Mexican citizen of Lebanese descent, embarked on a project to restore Mexico City, especially the Zócalo area. To do so, he enlisted former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As a self-appointed “guardian of the Mexican national capital,” Slim Helú states in a New York Times article that he wants to revive “one of the most important places in all the Americas,” one that …
Please GO Home and Build Africa: Criminalising Immigrants in South Africa
In April 2015, a Whatsapp text message instructed millions of African immigrants in South Africa to go home. The message drew on xenophobia and afrophobia to criminalise African immigrants in South Africa. Broadly, immigrants are seen as breaking the law by illegally crossing a sovereign border and becoming illegal foreigners. Having entered the country without authorisation ('papers'), these foreigners become perceived as drug dealers, trafficke…
The Vulnerability of Immigrants in Research: Enhancing Protocol Development and Ethics Review
Immigrant Positioning in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Middle Easterners, Foreign Citizens, and Multiculturalism
In October 2002, Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in Latin America and a Mexican citizen of Lebanese descent, embarked on a project to restore Mexico City, especially the Zócalo area. To do so, he enlisted former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As a self-appointed “guardian of the Mexican national capital,” Slim Helú states in a New York Times article that he wants to revive “one of the most important places in all the Americas,” one that …
Getting angry with honest people’: The illicit market for immigrant ‘papers’ in Cape Town, South Africa
South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials ‘seem to get angry with honest people’, shared a Congolese immigrant from the Kivu region who now resides in Cape Town. Some DHA officials get money through illicit transactions for ‘papers’ and they become visibly frustrated with immigrants who try to obtain documents by lawful means. While there has been much focus on xenophobia associated with immigration in South Africa, there has been …
Arab “Amirka”: Exploring Arab Diasporas in Mexico and the United States
Many Arab immigrants came to the Americas—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina (to name only a few countries)—primarily with the intent to make money quickly and return home. Their enduring presence, however, is marked by ambiguous categorizations of Arabs in the United States and Mexico that relate to confusions of place, people, and history. The article is divided into six sections. In the first section, I describe the complex categ…
Reelizing” Arab and Jewish Ethnicity in Mexican Film
As a historian of Mexican history who studies Middle Eastern immigrants to Mexico in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I have approached the topic of ethnic film with both trepidation and great interest. Attuned to the historiography of what and who is Mexican, I view the films El baisano Jalil and Novia que te vea for their representations of ethnic difference and suggestions of a multicultural Mexico. Here, I wish to explore how thes…
Reelizing” Arab and Jewish Ethnicity in Mexican Film
As a historian of Mexican history who studies Middle Eastern immigrants to Mexico in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I have approached the topic of ethnic film with both trepidation and great interest. Attuned to the historiography of what and who is Mexican, I view the films El baisano Jalil and Novia que te vea for their representations of ethnic difference and suggestions of a multicultural Mexico. Here, I wish to explore how thes…
Immigrant Positioning in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Middle Easterners, Foreign Citizens, and Multiculturalism
In October 2002, Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in Latin America and a Mexican citizen of Lebanese descent, embarked on a project to restore Mexico City, especially the Zócalo area. To do so, he enlisted former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As a self-appointed “guardian of the Mexican national capital,” Slim Helú states in a New York Times article that he wants to revive “one of the most important places in all the Americas,” one that …
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included comprehensive data collection from more than 8,000 original immigration cards as well as studies of decades of legal publications and the collection of hist…
Arab “Amirka”: Exploring Arab Diasporas in Mexico and the United States
Many Arab immigrants came to the Americas—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina (to name only a few countries)—primarily with the intent to make money quickly and return home. Their enduring presence, however, is marked by ambiguous categorizations of Arabs in the United States and Mexico that relate to confusions of place, people, and history. The article is divided into six sections. In the first section, I describe the complex categ…
Immigration and Techniques of Governance in Mexico and the United States: Recalibrating National Narratives through Comparative Immigration Histories
Immigration histories typically endeavor to describe and hold a nation–state accountable not only for the laws and policies by which it admits some immigrants, but also for those by which it refuses, excludes, or deports other immigrants. This article explores immigration to Mexico and to the United States with attention to its implications for the status of persons, and also for the conventional historical narratives in each country. The article…
Nación y extranjería: La exclusión racial en las políticas migratorias de Argentina, Brasil, Cuba, y México
Nativism, the idea of intense opposition to an internal minority because it is foreign, is a major theme in US immigration scholarship, and Nación y extranjería reveals its significance in case studies throughout Latin America. In this eight-essay compilation, Pablo Yankelevich coordinates the work of an international group of scholars who examine how nativism influenced emerging Latin American nation-states in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960
Julia María Schiavone Camacho’s book, entitled Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910 – 1960, is a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship on Mexican diaspora studies and immigrant self-positioning. Schiavone Camacho uncovers and documents the history of roughly 500 Chinese Mexicans who left Mexico and repatriated. These are Chinese men who married Mexican women and were forced to leave Mexico, Mexican…
The Vulnerability of Immigrants in Research: Enhancing Protocol Development and Ethics Review
Please GO Home and Build Africa: Criminalising Immigrants in South Africa
In April 2015, a Whatsapp text message instructed millions of African immigrants in South Africa to go home. The message drew on xenophobia and afrophobia to criminalise African immigrants in South Africa. Broadly, immigrants are seen as breaking the law by illegally crossing a sovereign border and becoming illegal foreigners. Having entered the country without authorisation ('papers'), these foreigners become perceived as drug dealers, trafficke…
Getting angry with honest people’: The illicit market for immigrant ‘papers’ in Cape Town, South Africa
South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials ‘seem to get angry with honest people’, shared a Congolese immigrant from the Kivu region who now resides in Cape Town. Some DHA officials get money through illicit transactions for ‘papers’ and they become visibly frustrated with immigrants who try to obtain documents by lawful means. While there has been much focus on xenophobia associated with immigration in South Africa, there has been …
Immigration (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · History (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)