Nonmaterial Culture Of Migrant Workers

Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population. Malnutrition among migrant worker children is ten times higher in the nation. (Chavez)

Case Study #4 – Working with an Immigration Family Case #4 introduces us to Esmerelda; a 15 year-old teenager, born in the United States (U.S.) to El Salvadorian parents who fled to the U.S. in the 1990s. The intent was to secure a “better life” (Lee & Gonzalez, 2015, p. 164) that would counter the detrimental living conditions and the possibility of starvation they were facing in their native country. Unfortunately, Esmerelda’s family is poor, resides a “rural southern town” as a family of six. Her parents work extremely long shifts at a “poultry plant” to keep a roof over the family’s heads, food on the table and provide as much of their needs as possible. Due to the lengthy work hours, Esmerelda is forced to stand in as the ‘acting parent’ with effort to look after her siblings in her parent’s absence.

Values/Chapter 2 Page 45: the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable good or bad, beautiful or ugly. The value of education gets lost by the 3 teens that are featured in this video, and hundreds of thousands of other migrant kid work. Education is lost because they have to work 12-14 hours a day to help their families with money. In the video they said that migrant kid workers are 4 times more likely to drop out of school because they work in the fields with their family. In the video Perla and Zulema have to leave school to that they could move up north to work in the fields with their families. Throughout the video they all talked about their goals/dreams for when they get older, and all 3 of them said to graduated school and go to college so that they could get good jobs and help their parents with even more money. The reason for education lose is because the families move around so much for work and the kids need to help them in the fields and don't have time to go to school to get the grade that they need to to pass and move on to the next grade. In the video Perla said that she had to re-take a grade because she never went to school because she was always in the fields working. They also said in the video that the family makes only a total of $17,500 a year, and that's between all of the working in the

To elaborate, the farmworkers have been laboring day and night, even when their bodies are in pain. As stated by a young girl, named Carmen, “‘She (mom) doesn’t want to see me work there (in the fields), … she says because it’s a lot of work, … She doesn’t want me to go through what she goes through (in the fields). She says it’s really painful, hard work. Every night I massage her back so that she can feel better in the morning.’” As migrant worker, children who work and go to school, never have the chance to have a full education or experiences with friends. We know this because NBC’s Child Labor: Young Hands Picking Our Food states, “Critics of current U.S. labor law say these childhood dreams are jeopardized by a relentless cycle where young workers drop out of school to follow their families and the crops for work and then remain stuck in the fields because the children never finish their high school education.” Also, the Braceros during WWII worked hard, however, their paychecks seem to always show signs of deduction. We know this from the article, The Realities of Life and Labor, in which a man stated, “‘Sometimes the check stubs indicate the deduction and sometimes they

According to the Cesar Chavez Foundation, “Some 800,000 under-aged children work with their families harvesting crops across America and as much as 30 percent of Northern California's garlic harvesters are under-aged children” (Chavez Foundation 1). All those children are being of an education because they are too busy working all day to go to school. Also because they are working all day farm workers have no time to teach their kids how to read and write so the kids never really develop the skills necessary to be able to communicate with other people. In addition the Cesar Chavez Foundation affirms that, “Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population. Malnutrition among migrant worker children is 10 times higher than the national rate. Farm workers' average life expectancy is still 49 years --compared to 73 years for the average American” (Chavez Foundation 1). Most of those infant deaths are because the migrant workers don’t have the time or access to the medical attention required to raise infants. Farm workers' average life expectancy is probably so short due to the strenuous work they do on a daily

In 2012, there was a surge of Mexico's citizens transitioning into a country where they weren’t fully accepted, all to better their children’s lives along with their own. Being a immigrant in America is hard due to having to start over from nothing. Immigrants find themselves working hard manual jobs despite not having any interest in the field they are working in. Some immigrants also see themselves as a burden to the country due to having plans

As with many Southwestern farm families, a great number of Mexican American farmers discovered they had to take on a migratory existence and traveled the highways in search of work” (LoC). In many families, children did not get educations but helped their elders at farming. The farm workers would farm more in the southern area, but due to getting rid of the Bracero Program later, most families were needed to move somewhere else. The wages the farmers and including other immigrants were low, which was causing a problem with those who had much more of a bigger family. Which is probably why children were needed to stay and help with farming.

One example of this is welfare. In America, children who are from middle-class families are concerned about growing up and getting a job. If you were from a country where money was more important than education growing up and supporting your family may be a higher priority than an American child from a middle-class family. “First-generation (i.e., foreign-born) adolescents from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including Filipino, Chinese, and Latin American, reported the strongest sense of obligation to support their families in the future.” (Andrew J. Fuligni). This evidence further supports my argument. It shows that instead of worrying about grades and video games these first-generation immigrants worry about supporting their family more.

The majority of all first generation Latinos don’t have the adequate resources needed to comprehend how the system of education works. Immigrant parent have different customs and do nott understand the educational customs here in the United States. Because of the different customs, education is not a priority. Their socioeconomic status can affect their perspective on education, most of them just want to provide for their family and think pursuing a career is optional. Because of their culture their parents are usually aware of, some parents do not realize education is a necessity in life.

What systems theory offers to the examination of the barriers of undocumented students to higher education includes not only information on how the systems came to function as they are but how social change could make broader impacts. For example, the neighborhoods and family systems that undocumented students are a part of could potentially be deeply impacted if unless more students had access to higher education, and of course, employment opportunities following that education, as this could have positive economic and social impacts within these systems.

There is a Mexican man that enters with the rest of his family. They eat beans, rice, flour tortillas and etc. The family does there every day routine, the dad wakes up at six- thirty to go to work in his truck. The children go to school and the mother stays at home. The things a person does in their all has a reason which goes all back to culture. Culture is what makes up everyone different from one another. Texts such as “What is Cultural Identity?”, “Where Worlds Collide” and “Two ways to Belong” supports that depending on one’s culture it effects one perspective on the world and others.

If we look at current statistics to raise a child today, in one year for one child it would amount to $12,000 a year if you take into account Food, Clothing, Healthcare, and Education. The average migrant farm worker has three children. Three children… That amounts to $36,000; this is four times the amount of money Lopez makes in one year. To see the hardships of migrant farmwork, all we have to do is visit a local site and you can see, the small shacks, hunched backs, miles and miles of fields, and the variety of ages in the fields. This is the life of these people, these are the hardships. Not to mention the abuse these farm workers take, especially the

The link between Mexico and poverty is a large reason why children are forced to work in factories. Poverty began to be an issue for Mexico starting many years ago. In the 1940s, when industrialization began taking place, Mexico’s economy was growing at a rate of 6 per cent per year (Latapi and Gonzalez). This increase in the economy created two new social classes: the urban middle class and the new working class. By the late 70s, at least half of the working middle class held jobs related in manufacturing (Latapi and Gonzalez). This employment gave wages high enough to allow one worker the

The main characters of the Byzantine Empire were Diocletian, Constantine, Jerome, Ambrose, Gregory, Augustine and Justinian. It achieved influence on the whole world through the Christian faith and collections of laws that are used and believed in even to this day. Moreover I do not think it impacted the Christian world, it literally made it. Iconography influenced Christians and later other groups as well, including secret societies. The major start of the Byzantine Empires influence on solidifying Christianity begins with Diocletian.

Plato and Aristotle had a considerable amount of differences in ideology given that Aristotle was Plato’s student for roughly two decades. Plato, a student of Socrates, opposed the idea of average citizens to participate in politics because he believed that political practice was skill or “technē" that can only be achieved by a few people. He believed that “kings must be those among them who have proved best both in philosophy and where war is concerned.” (Republic, 491) and that these “philosopher kings” were the only people fit to rule a government, or the government would be doomed to fail. Aristotle is highly critical of Plato and his ideal constitution but he does find a similar form of ruling class to be ideal. He believes, in the