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| the development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic or Asian American |
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| the merged ethnicity and class in a person's status. |
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| the area of a common culture along the border of Mexico and the United States |
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| foreign-owned companies that establish operations in Mexico yet are exempt from Mexican taxes and are not required to provide insurance or benefits their workers. |
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| the monies that immigrants return to their country of origin. |
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| nonprofit organizations that maintain close ties to immigrants’ hometowns in Mexico and other Latin American countries. |
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| People who arrived from Cuba in the third wave of Cuban immigration, most specifically those forcibly deported by way of Mariel Harbor. The term is generally reserved for refugees seen as especially undesirable. |
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| policy toward Cuban immigrants allowing entry to those who manage to reach the US to remain, while those picked up at sea were sent back to Cuba |
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| the placement of people on a continuum from light to dark skin color rather than in distinct racial groupings by skin color. |
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| immigration to the US of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed by their home countries. |
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