Latino Studies
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 455-480

Mexican migration to Hawai'i and US settler colonialism (Review)

Gupta M.D. , Haglund S.P.
  • a Department of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
  • b Department of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

Abstract

This article examines the significance of the growing presence of Mexican immigrants in Hawai'i. Drawing on Census Bureau data, qualitative surveys and in-depth interviews, we discuss Mexican immigrants' experiences as economic and cultural outsiders in Hawai'i and their encounters with police and immigration enforcement. We argue that Hawai'i's case requires an analysis of the role of US settler colonialism and its intersections with racism and economic inequality currently absent in theoretical models developed to understand the volatility that Latinos introduce to Black-White dynamics. © 2015 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Author Keywords

immigration enforcement economic competition US settler colonialism Mexican migration indigenous-migrant relations

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949550485&doi=10.1057%2flst.2015.40&partnerID=40&md5=0a91b8f7930140161d52fcd512fdc97b
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2015.40
ISSN: 14763435
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English