From Granada to the Diaspora: Expulsion, Crypto-Judaism, and Sephardic Identity (Ch. 3-5)

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- Test of loyalty for the Spanish nobles - not only can you be Jewish in this Kingdom - but also you can like / Support the Jews - Attempt of power Decline & fall of Nasrid Granada - political decline coupled with civil wars & Christian interventions - Granada war 1482-1492 - doesn't go well for Granada - made peace in 1487 - lost its severity but not its independence - Muhammad XII (Boabdil) (c. 1400-1533) - siege & treaty of Granada was signed in November 1491 - Spanish basically ignored treaty after 2 years - violated everything in the treaty within the first year of it being signed. (80KW402) Immigration - Historical context - colonization - Colonialism & Capitalism - Foreign intervention - NAFTA (North American free trade agreement) - 1993 - - Mexico poverty increased - US military intervention - Transnational corporations - Foreign investment - Leaves countries in worse shape than when they come - Privatization - Latin American natural resources - Disparity in landholdings - Rural indigenous communities - Environmental degradation - Ongoing degradation - Wars - Economic impacts - Push-pull theory of migration - Migration occurs among political, social, economi...