Histories of Immigration and Displacement Spring 2018 Due Date: May 14, 2018; 1pm Instruction: The due date for this take-home final exam is May 14, 2018. You should submit an electronic copy of your answers to my email address kyang2@binghamton (with a subject title: LACAS 380 Final Exam) on May 14, 2018 - before or at 1pm; you are also required to submit a hardcopy to my office in Library Tower 1113 on May 14, 2018 - before or at 1pm. It is your responsibility to submit your answers on time. All answers must be typed in 12-pt font with single- spaced lines. No late submissions will be accepted and hence you will not receive a grade for the final exam. The final exam, as stated in class will be accumulative; this means that all of the previously discussed reading materials will be included. Your answers should reflect an understanding of the reading materials and class discussions. Your answers - in some specific requests - will involve a summary of readings. Your summary should not be a "copy" of passages from the readings; it should also not be a vague response. The selected readings (below) contain concepts that are identifiable by the readers; these concepts have been clearly listed and defined in the readings. The questions are demanding a careful reviewing of the selected book chapters or articles. All of the readings have been distributed over Mycourses at the beginning of the semester. All of the additional readings that are not available in Mycourses should have been purchased (or borrowed from the library). You are responsible for obtaining the required readings for this final exam. Questions 2 and 4 require additional readings; these readings are available for viewing through the Internet. The links to these additional readings are listed under Appendix 1 and 2. You are also responsible for obtaining these additional Internet news sources. Any technical difficulties - regarding accessibility - will not be accepted as a reason for not responding to the questions. Answers that are written in great length do not guarantee a good grade; short answers will also not guarantee a good grade. You are the one to decide on how much should be written in addressing the specific requests in each question. You are required to cite the sources in an appropriate manner (including the author, year, page numbers; together with a bibliography page). Your answer sheets should include this hardcopy of the final exam on top of the hardcopy with your name written on top. Your answer sheets should be stapled together. Additional Suggestions in order to answer the following questions, you are encouraged to revisit the selected readings closely before writing down any answers Question 1 (20 pts): The perspectives on gentrification/displacement in Producing Gentrification and in various readings on rezoning are different from each other They provide different answers to the question of what is gentrification?' and 'what is displacement?' in different ways. Please (1) describe the relationship between the rent gap theory and gentrification, (2) define the technical details (types of zoning types of buildings, etcete.) involved in the rezoning plans in Harlem, Chinatown, Lower East Side, and Williamsburg in relationship to the definition of displacement, (3) define the role of New York City government, the Department of City Planning as well as the City Council in the organization of gentrification and displacement, and (4) define the impacts of rezoning to the above neighborhoods. Your answers should draw from the following readings: Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly, Producing Gentrification, in Gentrification Winifred Curran, "From the Frying Pan to the Oven': Gentrification and the Experience of Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Sylvia Morse, Harlem: Displacement, Not Integration, in Zoned Out. Samuel Stein, Chinatown: Unprotected and Undone, in Zoned Out Philip DePaolo and Sylvia Morse, Williamsburg. Zoning Out Latinos, in Zoned Our Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse. (2016). Racialized Land Use and Housing Policies, in Zoned Out Bonus Points to Question 1: Why the perspective of rezoning is different from the perspective of rent gap theory? (5 pts) Question 2 (30 pts): In a recent incident took place in Syracuse, ICE officers stormed a farm without a warrant and handcuffed an immigrant farm worker (see Appendix 1). ICE has also reportedly targeted American citizens for deportation (see Appendix 1). These are examples of detention and deportation. Please (1) review the news articles cited in the Appendix and describe the contents of the articles, (2) compare and contrast the contents of the news with different forms of detention described in the Hernandez reading (Week 13) on deportation, and (3) describe the specificity of detention/deportation regarding Latino immigrant populations (through Hernandez once again). Your answers should highlight the activities and the purposes) of ICE as well as other regulatory state institutions conducted on documented/undocumented immigrants as well as American citizens; this does not mean that your answers should focus solely on ICE. In the process of highlighting these activities (and their purposes), you should address the above requests of (1), (2) and (3) Question 3 (25 pts): We have read about and discussed the concept of exploitation. Please describe in depth on how Shirley Lung and Singh Bolaria define this concept. Question 4 (25 pts): We have read about and discussed the concept of privatization in linkages with natural disaster (policy changes; subcontracting, etcetc.), immigration (immigration policies; before and after 9/11) and displacement. Please define the concept of privatization by establishing linkages between the following readings and video: Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg, Constructing Tabula Rasa: Framing and the Political Construction of Crisis, in Crisis Cities Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg, Crisis as Opportunity: Tracing the Contentious Spatial Politics of Redevelopment, in Crisis Cities Alfonso Gonzales. (2013). The State-Civil Society Nexus and the Debate over the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, in Reform without justice: Latino migrant politics and the homeland security state Oxford University Press. Video in Appendix 2 Note: You are not summarizing each of the book chapter; you are extracting information from these readings only in order to define privatization in relationship to natural disaster, immigration and displacement. Appendix 1: Upstate NY farmer says ICE officers stormed his farm without a warrant, cuffed him, threw his phone http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/upstate_ny_farmer_says_ice_of ficers stormed_his_farm_without_a_warrant_cuffed_hi.html ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He's not the only one who had to prove his citizenship http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html Appendix 2: Color of Climate https://www.theroot.com/tag/color-of-climate
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