Posted on 04/12/2010 10:09:34 AM PDT by decimon
BATON ROUGE – LSU Sociology Professor Edward Shihadeh and Ph.D. candidate Raymond Barranco have published a study titled "Latino Employment and Black Violence: The Unintended Consequence of U.S. Immigration Policy," in the March 2010 issue of Social Forces, the field's preeminent journal.
The study confirms that Latino immigration and dominance of low skill jobs have displaced blacks from low-skill labor markets, which in turn led to more violence in urban black communities. According to their analysis, this is traceable to U.S. immigration policies over the last several decades.
Before the United States/Mexico border was militarized, Latino immigration was a two-way trip; immigrants, mainly from Central America, moved to the United States temporarily to finance a project in their home country. But in response to U.S. public pressure, border security was intensified. Tall fences were built, cameras installed and the border was patrolled relentlessly by well-armed guards. As a result, Latino immigrants in the United States stopped returning home for fear that they could not repeat the trip. This increased the number of Latino workers in the United States competing for jobs in agriculture, manufacturing and construction. Blacks lost that competition in many cities, and where that occurred, murder rates went up.
"This is an unintended but significant result of immigration policies," said Shihadeh, lead author on the project. "This is not a blame game. We do not advocate restricting the flow of Latino migrants in either direction. This is what triggered the flow of events in the first place. There is no reason to deprive this country of the rich contributions made by Latinos. Our study simply describes how immigration policy opened a new chapter in the history of the U.S. labor market and how that harmed black communities."
Sociological theory has linked black urban decline to poverty, the loss of manufacturing jobs and racial segregation. This study introduces another factor in the dense cluster of black disadvantage – immigration policy, which inadvertently flooded low skill markets with Latino labor, displaced blacks and, as a result, raised the rates of black murder.
"Blacks and Latinos both feel singled out and put upon. But few will address these issues because they're politically explosive," said Shihadeh. "The public mood makes this subject a live wire." Nonetheless, both researchers hope their work will fuel important discussions.
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We’ve had tensions for years between blacks and latino immigrants in my area. It’s mellowed out a bit, but it’s still there.
Here’s what some will consider racist. The Latinos work harder. I know farmers in Arkansas who now hire Mexicans instead of blacks and they said that’s why they hire them. The work harder and are more dependable. Just a fact of life.
More miserable, bitter clients are what they're after.
Blacks and Hispanics are essentially fighting for the bottom rung jobs. If I were black or hispanic - I’d find that insulting.
So, I guess this implies that whites and Asians are competing for the jobs that don’t involve digging ditches?
Yes, Muslim ‘scholarship’ finds the root of the problem for blacks - it is illegal aliens. Where in the hell did I put that friggin’ Jiffy Pop? I wanna sit back and watch this shit.
This study is so bizarre, only two sociologists could have come up with it. I give it an “F”.
From what I have seen a lot of Blacks can’t get along with anybody including members of their own group. I don’t put all Blacks in that category but there are more than enough to cause problems.
When Blacks fail, it's always the fault of someone else.
Did anyone actually read the quoted article in the original post??
Well.........that’s interesting on many different levels; and humouros on at least one. I mean.......... A Louisiana Sociology Professor?
Louisiana and Sociology: Study Topices: “The effects of Watermelon prices on crime in the 9th ward”; “Corelation between Slow-Pay of Bribes to length of time Contracts awarded”; “Decline in Cost of Breast Implants leads to rise in Tourist profits at Mardi Gras; “High Fertility rate in Landrieu Family and decline in Political opportunities for everyone else”;
The topic pool is unfathnomably deep!
Too hard. ;-)
our area as well; I sell ammo to both sides.
Amnesty will solve this.
/sarc
Some (not most) blacks feel threatened that their entitlements are being redirected to Mexican Americans.
Too freaking bad. It’s time ALL Americans leave their dependency status and stand on their own.
I have known lots of unemployed people who have never laid a hand on anyone. Now that I think about it, I was unemployed once for a few months and it never occurred to me to engage in violence.
I just don’t buy the poverty as a “root cause” of violence thing. Especially when you consider that today’s poor are fabulously wealthy by world standards.
What’s bizarre about it?
Bizarre in that it is so blatantly obvious?
Facts can't be racist can they?
blacks are just mad that many latinos outside the barrios actually work
they better watch it though...los vatos are infinitely more capable when it comes to organized violence
*see McDuffie riots in Miami 1980(?) and how the Cubans handled butchering marauding blacks near the Miami river....sorta like the Algiers bridge battle tween whites and blacks after Katrina
http://origin.thefoxnation.com/politics/2010/04/12/seiu-white-workers-are-so-f-ing-rabidly-racist
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