Examples Of Political Neoliberalism

Political neoliberalism can be referred as the combined progressive ideologies of free-trade policies and a global market liberalism. It is mostly performed by a wide spectrum of investors and corporations in order to create and shape, according to their interests, economic and social policies. For example, the United States and its neoliberal politics orient Latin American economies to the exportation of raw unprocessed material, manufactured products and wide networks of undocumented migrant workers trafficking. The United States with the militarization for the “protection” of its borderlands. Neoliberal economic policies tend to lead to the inequality of entities overall, even though the portrayal of its principles is set to make believe

In Chapter 4 “The Myth of Welfare Dependency – Caught between Welfare and Work”, Marchevsky and Theoharis explain the vicious circle created by welfare reforms that is filled with dark loop holes. To illustrate further, the reaching of uncaring and disengaged welfare case workers is extremely difficult; there are frequently unpredictable and most often just temporary work positions offered to immigrants; ironically, when the welfare case workers become miraculously available, they are presented with the erratic work position offerings that the immigrant has obtained; and therefore, transferred to the “out of poverty line” list. Along with the (debatable) successful landing of a job, the immigrant has to face an inhumane load of excessive injustices, such as non-existing or very poor benefits, and the careless denial of the requested extra hour’s payments. “For these families, then, work had been ever present in their lives but had never been a means for material security or individual fulfillment” (P. 144). The meritocratic point of view of welfare reforms focuses on the ideology that welfare begging from the ground and leads to the surface of work, but it is more than evident that resorts its power relations based on class. The working poor is “invisibly” forced to

Their effects are something merely discernible and a matter of social change rather than entitlement. “A few activists and nonprofit organizations can always resist stringent immigration [and welfare] policies. But resistance in and of itself is not the same as launching an effective oppositional politics capable of winning sustainable and transformative social justice victories against programs” (Gonzales, P. 98). Gonzales proposes on Chapter 6 “Beyond Immigration Reform” that Chican@/Latin@ immigrants need to claim and exercise wider civil, political, and human rights. “The leading forces in the movement must be primarily accountable to organize social bases, not foundations or political cronies”. (P. 171). Neoliberalism in the face of globalization debates citizenship and immigration with a range of agencies above immigration control. Its political aim in limiting illegal immigration from Latin America and “secure” the Homeland Security State interferes with the United States government’s blind eye performance in keeping a constant cheap labor. Neoliberal economic and political restructuring of Latin America impacts the immigrant’s negotiation of poverty, uncertainty, struggle, and the leap of faith they shed while chasing the so called “American