Explain how the shootings of unarmed black men are depicted in the popular media? Do these common representations shape public policy?Click the video recording link below for your review:
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Just note, the below sample is very long because the article was very long and covered a lot of territory in the research field on unaccompanied migrant children. Your annotated bibliography entries might not be this long. Note too, the sample is from a non-sociology article so when we critique such articles we gather what we can learn from them, then we offer a sociological critique in terms of how the authors fall short of a systematic methodologically sound study. See Chapter 2 Methods for how to judge of a research study is valid and reliable (pg.56-57).
To be clear, I am giving you a choice from 6 research topics to guide your Annotated Bibliography. Choose the one that interests you most or one that you feel you should know about.
Research question questions to choose which will guide your annotated bibliography and 3-page analysis:
#1: Mass incarceration during Covid-19: How did prisons confront the risk of Covid-10 deaths during this pandemic?
#2: Latinx, African Americans, Asian American, and other minoritized groups have different educational and career outcomes: How do educational and career outcomes differ between Latinx US Americans and “white US Americans?” Does gender affect these outcomes? If so, how do these outcomes differ at the intersection of gender/“race”?
#3: Ethics of Neoliberal Capitalist Production Today: How ethical and environmentally sound is commodity production today? Which products are the most need and which are the most valued? How will the earth’s resources and stability to maintain life be in the future based on what we know about current neoliberal capitalist production trends?
#4: Gentrification and Economic Vulnerability: What has caused the rise in housing values which has forced many cities’ (like San Jose’s) workers to move elsewhere? How does housing costs affect working people’s economic stability? What social changes can improve this trend called ‘gentrification’?
#5: The US/Mexican Border and Children’s Wellbeing: How did the US government and private citizens respond to the incarceration of child migrants at the US/Mexican border? From a Marxist economic conflict perspective, what does the US government and US political parties and constituents gain economically and/or socially from maintaining the abuse of migrant children and families at the US/Mexican border?
#6: How does the incarceration and forced removal of undocumented parents affect the lives of their children longterm?
We will need to write a three page analysis after completing the 6-entries so keep this in mind as you collect your articles and the entries. Reflexively think about the ‘causes’ and ‘social actors and groups’ and the solutions suggested by the authors you engage with.
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Note this is a unique type of entry so be sure to pay close attention to the 4 parts and do number them like below. In your annotated bibliography you will cover 3 sociological research articles and 3 news articles. After completing all 6 entries take some time to reflect on all you learned, then choose the two academic articles to compare and contrast as the instructions state:
Sample of an annotated bibliography entry for a peer reviewed research paper (in four parts).
citation:
Swanson, Kate and Rebecca Maria Torres. 2016. “Child Migration and Transnationalized Violence in Central and North America.” Journal of Latin American Geography, 15 (3), University of Texas, Austin: TX.: Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Press Retrieved July 9, 2021
(http://web.a.ebscohost.com.deanza.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=16&sid=b5411b81-8328-4ec5-a108-33eeeaa2dfb2%40sessionmgr4007).
research question and main argument: In this paper, Swanson and Torres (2016) ask, “[H]ow have nuanced manifestations of violence shaped migrant children’s lives and experiences”? Focusing on the geography of normalized violence, they argues that, [w]hile youth may be able to escape immediate and corporeal violence, we explain how different forms of violence influence not only their decisions to leave, but also their journeys and encounters with Mexican and US immigration policies. We argue for a more spatially expansive understanding of violence that considers how state policies and practices extend far beyond national borders to negatively affect migrant children’s lives” (1).
research method used: Swanson and Torres (2016) do a literature review of transnational violence and examine case studies collected by Torres’ work with unaccompanied child arrivals at ICE detention centers. Some of the analysis includes analyses of drawings by unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the US/ Latin American region of the Americas to reach US soil to reunite with family and escape social and domestic violence. These authors focus on the four main sending countries Guatemala (which sends 32% of all unaccompanied children), Honduras (18%), el Salvador (29%), and Mexico (20%) (24). These authors answer their research question by using a social geographical perspective mapping practices of violence as interconnected with migration patterns and show how they influence children and families that flee their home countries to the US border. This research convinces the read that there is a clear connection between the children’s personal experiences of violence trough their journey across the treacherous borderlands and the social forces of global economics and media discourse. They show the children’s points of view, describing the varying negative and positive narratives that the children tell to make meaning from their experience, some depicting the journey as an American dream and others as a violent oppressive and sometimes dark and deadly experience.
One limitation to their choice of methods was they did not collect a large number of complete case studies and did not provide a set of interview questions and data collecting method so that researchers can duplicate the study.
contributions to the literature/main findings: Swanson and Torres (2016) contribute to research on ‘violence’ and ‘the incarcerations of unaccompanied immigrant minors at the border’ as they write, “[i]n particular, we believe that a framework of violence unmasks naturalized and normalized routine practices that contribute to child migration and inflict harm on children” (26). Thus, by focusing on ‘structural violence’ that sends migrant children northward, including first-hand accounts of the violent Mexican and US immigration policies they bring light to the human suffering caused by global economics and draconian border policies. Swanson and Torres (2016) direct researchers toward analysis of the asymmetrical social, political, and economic State structures that shaped our global immigration crisis. Although they do acknowledge the political construction of an ‘immigration crises’ by politicians, they focus on the violence against the children as primary.
To be sure, this focus on the global flow of violence and Mexican and US State’s contributions to the violence against migrant children challenges the discourse that tends to depict children as abstract political pawns rather than as direct victims of patterns of global violence from multiple agencies including our own US government. As they note, the migrant children are often depicted, “as innocent victims who have forsaken their childhoods to flee for their lives; others perceive them as dangerous teenage hoodlums who are a threat to American safety and values” (25). These authors point toward research on how border politics affect human rights of children, which I think is a rich and productive area of research to help inform the public about the severity of this issue towards solving this human rights issue.
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