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Vamos a aguantar: Observations on how Arizona’s SB 1070 has affected one community

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  1. See http://shesc.asu.edu/research/south-phoenix-collaborative for more information about this network.

  2. See O’Leary and Sanchez (2011) for a legislative genealogy of Arizona’s SB 1070.

  3. See http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070h.pdf for the full text of the bill as originally written.

  4. See Romero (2011) for an analysis of the spectacle of Arpaio’s raids.

  5. See Lacayo (2011) for an analysis of copycat immigration legislation.

  6. We conducted a total of 54 interviews with Latino household members, drawn from a random sample of 147 adults.

  7. A mi hijo, parado en la estación del bus, ha llegado la policía a preguntarle por sus papeles, ‘¿Qué hace? ¿Adónde va?’ Porque te ven sospechoso ¿pero de qué? Por su apariencia.

  8. ¿Y si te llevan a ti, amá … si te llevan, que me va a pasar?

  9. [Mi] familia sólo sale a la tienda, y cuando es muy necesario; [mi] hija se pone muy nerviosa y con miedo cuando ve a la policía en la tienda y calle.

  10. See Esbenshade and Obzurt (2007–2008) for a review of the negative impact of similar local level immigration policies in other communities.

  11. Te afecta sicológica y moralmente, porque no hay día de Dios … que no sepas que tu amiga está sola con sus niños porque al hombre lo agarraron y lo echaron a México. Si no tuviéramos corazón pues que pase lo que pase ¿verdad? Pero si uno tiene corazón ….

  12. Sí, me ha afectado … muchos de mis amigos tuvieron que irse de Arizona. Se fueron unos para Texas, Colorado, … se fueron huyendo; incluso aquí los vecinos también, hay unos que también se quieren ir. Por lo mismo, de que ya no ven aquí un futuro … Pero para llegar al punto de que: – ‘Vámonos’ –. Todavía no. Todavía no, vamos … vamos a aguantar.

  13. See the websites of Puente Movement and Alto Arizona as an example of such activism at http://www.puenteaz.org/ and http://altoarizona.com.

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Szkupinski Quiroga, S. Vamos a aguantar: Observations on how Arizona’s SB 1070 has affected one community. Lat Stud 11, 580–586 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/lst.2013.34

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