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Union Responses to Mass Immigration: The Case of Miami, USA
Author(s) -
Nissen Bruce,
Grenier Guillermo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8330.00199
Subject(s) - miami , solidarity , immigration , context (archaeology) , ideology , political economy , nationalism , political science , mass migration , sociology , gender studies , law , history , politics , environmental science , archaeology , soil science
This article places the attitudes of US unions toward immigrants within the context of a “globalized” environment and a contested and problematic history of the US labor movement regarding its conflicting tendencies toward international solidarity and nationalism. Following a review of that history, the article examines the relationships of four unions in the heavily immigrant Miami, Florida area with immigrant workers in the past four decades. The evidence indicates that explanations for differing responses can be found in the union's structure, its external environment, its leadership' vision and ideology, and its internal “cultural” practices.