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Due to the sweeping changes and global economic trends scholars tend to lose sight of the people caught up in these rapid changes (Chavez, 2013 ). Undocumented immigrants are caught up in other components of transnational problems attracting the attention of researcher’s interested primary on the economic role that undocumented immigrants play, while neglecting to focus on the complexities of their incorporation process to the society of their host country (Simich, 2009). There is a need for interdisciplinary research that helps understand the social and cultural complexities of undocumented immigrants. According to Paul Stoller, anthropologist (especially ethnography) can serve as a bridge that connects two words and interweave the distant

The book is divided into five sections, each one being subdivided into different strategies on how to use rhetoric to your advantage, in any given situation.

In his article “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault,” David Theo Goldberg effectively informs the reader about the effects that computers in the home and school environment could have on the future education of the coming generations. Goldberg achieves this by executing defined organization and adding unique comparisons about the potentially crippling effects technology can have on a society when put into the wrong hands.

Going back to the video we can reveal the struggles of the farm workers at a personal level when we look at Source A and the story of Juan Lopez. When interviewed by

Holmes’ purpose in conducting his fieldwork with the migrant workers (specifically the Triqui of Mexico) of California and Washington fruit agriculture was to gain understanding from a perspective many do not consider and that has not been assessed in this way before. Similarly, the goal of this book was to pass that understanding to the common reader, the average American, those who are affected directly and those who are believe they are unaffected by the migrants of American agriculture—and to distinguish that they are not unaffected. Doing so creates the potential for change, even if by only a small factor like

A migrant worker is a “casual and unskilled worker who moves about...from one region to another offering their services on a temporary...basis”. (Migrant Labour) In the 1930s a variety of events led to hundreds of thousands of people becoming migrant workers. The sudden influx of people couldn’t be properly accommodated which led to the degradation of this group of people. The life of a migrant worker was one filled with hardships and obstacles.

Immigration makes up of the United States. The life of an immigrant faces many struggles. Coming to the United States is a very difficult time for immigrant, especially when English is not their first language. In Oscar Handlin’s essay, Uprooted and Trapped: The One-Way Route to Modernity and Mark Wyman’s Coming and Going: Round Trip to America, both these essays describes the life of immigrants living in America and how they are able to make a decent amount of money to support their families. Handlin’s essay Uprooted and Trapped: The One - Way Route to Modernity explains how unskilled immigrants came to adapt to the American life working in factories to make a living. In the essay, Coming and Going: Round Trip to America, this essay describes the reality of many immigrants migrating to the United States in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. Many were living and adjusting to being transnational families. Both these essays show how the influx of immigration and industrialization contributed to the making of the United States. With the support from documents 3 and 7, Thomas O’ Donnell, Immigrant Thomas O’Donnell Laments the Worker’s Plight, 1883 and A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country, 1909, these documents will explain the life of an immigrant worker in the United States. Although, the United States was portrayed as the country for a better life and a new beginning, in reality, the United

External conflict in Rivera’s story is what brings about the plight this boy lives through. As the boy tells his mother, “Either the germs eat us alive or the sun burns us up. Always some kind of sickness”(Rivera 109).As a migrant worker, the boy and those like him, had to toil and live in unsanitary conditions and under harsh elements in the field for 12 hour shifts These conditions often brought grave illness or death to the migrants. Another factor that added to the migrant’s unsavory working conditions was the lack of consideration given to them by their bosses. In the story, the mother tells the boy and his siblings, “Don’t pay any mind to that boss if he tries to rush you. Just don’t do it. He thinks it’s so easy since he’s not the one who’s out there stooped”

The farm is structured with the farm executives at the top, followed by the crop managers and administrative assistants, then supervisors, then checkers and hourly field workers, and lastly the contract field workers, which are what the migrants work as (Holmes, 2015, 51). The migrants on the farm work and live in the worst conditions out of all the employees. The farm executives, as well as the crop managers and administrative assistants all have their own offices, some more or less private, where they spend most of their day (Holmes, 2015, 56-58). The migrants don’t have that luxury, as they must work in all different types of weather conditions, from direct sun or rain all day (Holmes, 2015, 73). Those higher up in the company can take breaks at their own discretion, whereas the migrants aren’t able to take breaks if they want to meet their minimum each day, and rarely eat or drink before going to work so they won’t have to go to the bathroom (Holmes, 2015, 62 and 73). The executives, managers, and assistants on the farm also live in insulated, comfortable housing with kitchens, bedrooms and private bathrooms, while the migrants live in shacks with some having insulation, but most live with no heat or installation or wood under the tin roof (Holmes, 2015, 60 and

Migrant farm workers in America go through struggles that middle class and privileged people of any race couldn’t even begin to comprehend without deep research. The types of pain that migrant farm workers endure on a day to day basis is incredible. As the consumers in a modern capitalist society, middle-class Americans are the reason that migrant farm workers have to raise their kids preparing them to work in servitude. The migrants don't want to work in the harsh conditions but they have to in order to have a “steady” income. Migrant farm workers in America are some of the most vulnerable of the oppressed groups because they work hard for endless hours at a time to provide to

In order to support yourself it is more than likely that you will have to work with either your head or your hands. Many Americans choose to work with their heads; however not all Americans were always given a choice on how they wanted to work. Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus and Rivera’s And the Earth Did Not Devour Him gave accurate descriptions to the types of situations many Hispanic families used to face when trying to support a whole family while working in the fields.In both Under the Feet of Jesus and And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Viramontes and Rivera illustrate how depending on physical labor jobs created additional obstacles for migrant families.

Rhetoric is a course in which students are taught the values of persuasion. And yet, behind this course is the utmost power to corrupt the world, changing it into a world of our own policies. This power, even though seldom discussed, has lead to many intriguing discoveries. One such discovery is how people are able to shape the world they live in simply by choosing the right words. Therefore those who would want the world to be a better place must protect this power. If in the wrong hands this power could cause serious damage. Several authors have striven to protect rhetoric and its power. Few agree on the matter of defining rhetoric, but they know that they must protect rhetoric from dark souls. A single definition of rhetoric must maintain a simplistic nature while incorporating every aspect of rhetoric. However, I argue that rhetoric is a means of persuading audiences of a situation and a particular reality through language and personal appeal. In order to prove this definition I will discuss how rhetoric creates a situation, the shaping of a different reality, the audience, the use of language, and the personal appeal. Finally, I will demonstrate the absolute need for rhetoric.

The article by Maureen Anthony et al. (2008) analyzed the health needs of migrant workers. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of family composition, employment, patterns of migration, and the services needed by migrant farmworkers. The study was conducted in 3 counties in Michigan. In order to gather data researchers conducted interviews and surveys with farmworkers. There were 1,314 family members that participated in the research. Those interviewed listed language as the main barrier to health care followed by the cost of healthcare, transportation problems, conflicts with time, as well as the hours of operation. These farmworkers also believed the most beneficial service to be dental care. It is estimated that 300,000

Part one of the Holmes novel, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States, primarily focused on Holmes’s initial integration into the life of an illegal immigrant. Holmes used participant observation to learn and understand the intricate issues of immigration and the social inequalities that disrupted so many lives. Throughout the reading, I was captivated by his story depicting his personal struggles and his first-hand account of living through the same hardships as immigrants. To this day I have been perplexed by the idea that the blatant inequalities of the past were so easily ignored, all the while being completely ignorant to many inequalities that are still prevalent today. My epiphany came whilst reading the

I will expand later on this paper about the arenas of constraint that the author wrote about for migrant workers in the conclusion of the first chapter, as it is a topic that needs to be unpacked greatly.