W&L Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program: Recent submissions
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The Game of NAFTA: Winners, Losers and Policy Implications
The North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 1994, lacks a social component. It has hindered economic development in Mexico. -
Microentrepreneurs, Microfinance, and Business Training: Cases from Chile
This project will be focusing specifically about the case of Chile and the various organizations aimed to assist entrepreneurs. I aim to use the data and theories of microfinance and small business development to evaluate ... -
Acculturation: The Cumbersome Road to Chronic Diseases among Latino Immigrants
The aim of this work is to analyze the relationship between chronic diseases and the acculturation process in Latin American immigrants. In comparison with many other ethnic groups, the Hispanic/Latino population is young ... -
Narcoterrorism: The Growing Threat in Latin America
This paper will explore and analyze how Latin America and the Caribbean has been such a conducive environment for the growth of narcoterrorism historically, as well as investigate the new developing threat of Islamic ... -
Pioneers of Populism in the 20th Century and the Prevalence of Populist Leaders in the 21st Century
The organization of this paper is as follows. First, it will provide a review on the conceptualization of populism. Then, it will describe the emergence of populist pioneers, their ideologies, their political approaches ... -
How Do You Integrate In Your Own Country? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Rural-to Urban Migration and Inclusion in Sao Paulo and Manaus, Brazil
We should view the trend of rural-to-urban migration as critical to the development of Brazil, whether that is through industrial development in São Paulo or commercial development in Manaus. However, the process of ... -
Shifting Borders: Language and Identity along the U.S-Mexico Border
Aimed at drawing to light the dynamic relationships between identity, language, and borders, this investigation first delves into a consideration of language as a tool to combat existential doubt in “Existence to Expression”. ... -
The Myth of the Melting Pot: An Economic Analysis of Immigration Policy in the U.S.
My capstone examines the topic of Latino immigration through an economic analysis of immigration reform in the United States. As my main case study, I evaluate Proposition 187 from 1994 in California. I then look at three ... -
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina: An Evolving Identity
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina is an altogether unique entity; a small but strong community that has developed a distinctive and evolving modern Judeo-Argentine identity in the face of persistent anti-Semitism, unsupportive ... -
Chagas Disease: Concerns in Argentina and the United States
American trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as Chagas disease, has been a neglected tropical disease for decades. Endemic to all of Latin America, Chagas disease is found most frequently in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, ... -
The Alternative Lexington: Fashioning Home, Place, and Belonging among Lexington's Latino Immigrant Community
Faced with difficulties in joining Lexington's broader identities, I reason that the city's Latino immigrant population has largely crafted an alternative community -- or an "imagined" Lexington -- relying on the bonding ... -
e Moviemento
Anthropologic movements within Brazil have traditionally been due to economic imbalances between regions, boom and bust cycles of natural commodities, frontier settlement, industrialization, and climate patterns. Oftentimes, ... -
Place and Displacement. LACS396 Capstone, 2013
Place has become a powerful metaphor to convey a sense of personal belonging, though the notion of place goes far beyond physical or geographical location. Environment, conservation, politics, religion, myth, personal and ... -
Black-Robe Shamans: The Jesuits and the Guarani Land-Without-Evil
The Jesuits utilized the appropriation of the Tupí-‐Guaraní culture and spiritual practices as a means of quasi-syncretic evangelization in the Southern Cone. However successful, this doctrinally controversial activity ... -
The Huichol Shaman: A Study in Cultural Memory
Who are the Huichol shamans, and what is the nature of their healing beliefs, traditions, and rituals? In the context of cultural memory studies, how have these beliefs, traditions, and rituals transcended strong cultural ... -
Que terra sem homens? : The Brazilian Government's Failed Policies in Amazonia (poster)
The positivist, developmentist, and nationalist top-down policies implemented by the Brazilian Government during the Old Republic, Estado Novo, and military regime periods failed to incorporate Amazonia into the rest of ... -
Afro-Brazilian Candomble: Reigniting Cultural Memories in the New World
This paper will explore Candomblé as a religion in its own right that has acted as an important tool for resistance and remembrance, allowing Candomblé practitioners to remember and redefine their African ancestral past ... -
Healing from Peru's Dirty War: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Arts
In this paper, I explore the traumatic effects in Peru after the twenty-year-long internal conflict between Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) and the Government(s) of Peru specifically through recent Peruvian art. In ...