Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies US and Mexican Regional Immigration Policy & Economy - Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus

Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies US and Mexican Regional Immigration Policy & Economy from Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus is a Campus Bachelor Interdisciplinary Studies degree that prepares you for a Science career. The Bachelor of Arts in Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies is an interdisciplinary degree program whose central mission is to provide a value added environment that increases the direct participation of Chicana/o and Latina/o populations in the formation of human and capital development. This concentration has a strong applied orientation and focuses on the regional and transnational policies and practices that have led to enormous demographic changes in: (1) the borderlands where close to 12 million persons live in the immediate U.S.-Mexico border region and (2) the entire country with a total of 20.6 million persons of Mexican origin, either born or migrated to the United States. Our focus concerns the manner in which economic and political decisions between Mexico and the United States, as well as other transnational policies concerning other countries, strongly influence the present state of human migration, ecological conditions, economic policy towards trade, demographic transitions, and the nexus of relations that are established across borders at local, regional, and transborder levels. We will focus primarily on the U.S. Mexico region but transnational economics and political policies have, and will continue to, affect the manner in which Spanish speaking Caribbean, and Central and South American regions respond. We will pay special attention to those policies concerning trade, agriculture, manufactured and assembled goods, and such major policies as NAFTA and CAFTA. The department is well served by having some faculty strength in this area but is less strong in some aspects including economic, demographic and quantitative analysis. The recent hire of a sociological demographer, however, will greatly strengthen this area. View more details on Arizona State University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Interdisciplinary Studies courses.