Pros And Cons Of Living In A Migrant Home

In the reading land of open graves by De Leon, discusses the dangers that millions of Mexican and central Americans face when trying to get into the United States undocumented. These people include people who have the dream of living in America and creating a new life where they can support their families. Also for those who have been deported back to Mexico being separated from their families and are in hopes of being reunited with their loved ones. These people face a hard battle ahead of them because they have to travel through the Sonoran desert of Arizona that is one of the largest deserts in North America. And have to deal with not only fighting the harsh desert elements, while only caring as many supplies as they can. They also have to deal with the structural violence that goes under looked that thousands of Mexicans have to face while migrating to the United States.

In Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book, Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, she allows us to enter the everyday lives of ten undocumented Mexican workers all living in the Chicago area. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz refers to Chuy, Alejandro, Leonardo, Luis, Manuel, Omar, Rene, Roberto, Lalo, and Albert the ten undocumented Mexicans as the “Lions”. This book shares the Lions many stories from, their daily struggle of living as an undocumented immigrant in America, to some of them telling their stories about crossing the border and the effects of living in a different country than their family, and many other struggles and experiences they have encountered. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book delves into

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s, Labor and Legality is a book written on the Mexican immigrant network in the U.S. She centers it on the Lions, a group of Mexican men from Leon, Mexico that all share their lives and help explain the many networks and strategies that are used in order to excel and gain happiness. There have been many different sorts of misconceptions about immigrants, and in recent years about undocumented immigrants from Mexico. The U.S. has made a sort of war on illegal immigrants and has made it a seemingly high priority in the media and in politics. Therefore, many Americans have been mislead and ill-informed about the history of immigrants/undocumented immigrants. Gomberg-Muñoz’s Labor and Legality helps set us straight. She unveils undocumented immigrants for the people that they are instead of the criminals that the media leads many to believe. Although she doesn’t have a wide range of participants for her study, I believe that she addresses many of the misconceptions and just plain ignorance that American people have of people that are undocumented; why stereotypes are supported by the people themselves, why politicians include stronger illegal immigration laws, and everything in between. Many of her topics reveal a sort of colonialism that the U.S. practices on Mexico; the exploitation of undocumented peoples to the benefit of the U.S. through economics, hypocritical laws and campaigns, and the racist and prejudice consequences.

It will take some time to get to know your roommate and learn about them, and it is likely, as in all roommate relationships, that there will be some frustrated moments as you get to know each other. There will be cultural differences between you and your roommate. There could also be differences in how you both communicate and why. Experience has shown, though, that getting to know your new international roommate could have positive lasting effects for both of you. With patience and a willingness to communicate and learn about each other, having an international roommate is an awesome experience.

The resident workers’ fear and hatred of blacks and Italians and vice versa distracts them from their hatred of the company, and prevents them from bonding together as workers against the Company. The Company uses racism to their advantage by promoting it, and further prevents unionization of the workers by showing the union as something new, foreign, and untrustworthy. Unions are forbidden in the workers’ contracts, so the workers must meet secretly to discuss the possibility of one. Because they lack security in their jobs, the workers fear for their lives and creature “comforts.” The company promotes this fear by monopolizing housing, forcing workers to live in substandard housing and making sure that the workers know that if they should lose this housing, they have nowhere else to go, no place else to live. The company completely controls their physical lives, an indication of slavery. Keeping the workers in ignorance of their futures forces them to live in constant fear, allowing the company to easily gain and maintain control.

Throughout the various books that we have read, one of the many concepts that stood out for me was the well-being and healthcare of undocumented workers. Due to the current criminalization of immigration, most undocumented workers live in a constant state of fear and anxiety. This really made me think about the psychological and somatic outcomes of fear, stigma, trauma, and prejudice for undocumented workers. This brought into question the structural and symbolic violence that causes undocumented workers to suffer from mental and physical illnesses and how the treatment, if any, is administered.

Almost all farm workers are illegal immigrants and are day laborers, must chase crops to make a living. Farm workers are also constantly at the mercy of variable adversities like natural disasters and bad weather. On average illegal migrant workers spend half of the year working and quarter of the year looking for a job. In addition illegal immigrants are hard to find a place to stay because they are in not in legal status and are required proper documentation by law to rent an apartment. On the other hand Illegal immigrants keep move place to place to find a job and looking for shelter to stay. Most of the illegal immigrants live with fear in face all time because of lack of job security and insecure life. According to Schlosser’s article "In 1951 the President 's Commission on Migratory Labor condemned the abysmal living conditions of illegal immigrants employed as migrant farm workers in the United States. At the time, workers were found living in orchards and irrigation ditches. They

The book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States illustrates the fieldwork of the author Seth M. Holmes by explaining the myriad aspects of migrant workers’ lives in the U.S.—from the politics to the social environments to the physical body. By not only studying, but living, the lives of these migrant workers, Holmes brings the reader a view unseen by the vast majority and provides the opportunity for greater understanding through the intense details of his work. The voices of vastly different characters—real people—are captured and expounded on without judgment but with deep consideration for all factors that contribute to each person’s life, opinions, and knowledge. Ultimately, a picture of intersectionality is painted in the colors of migrants, mothers, fathers, children, doctors, soldiers, executives, the poor, the rich, and more.

Immigrants around the world have come to this nation searching for a better sense of purpose and the chance to work for their families. I understood the need for these immigrants to work to make their source of income even more so from the field trip to SJSU. For Cesar Chavez, he saw the Catholic Social Teaching of the Dignity of work and rights of workers being disregarded. He and his fellow migrant workers couldn’t work with better equipment and therefore their health and safety were often jeopardized. Chavez spoke on behalf of the workers and worked to create the awareness of the issue by creating a community of union workers and working to make the lives

The Land of Open Graves was a dynamic piece that followed stories of the Mexican-American Border land through a series of anthology-like stories. What made chapters 1 -5 so impactful were the ways in which the stories were conveyed. The author began with a tale of people scouring the desert for undocumented, human remains. Then there was a fictitious journal that mimicked the reality of four migrant workers. Other entries included an explanation of death in the desert, the following of humor in migrant workers and life in the deported role. Although all of these different stories seem divergent, they have central theme that the author draws on throughout the first 100 pages – the unparalleled hostility and negligence perpetrated by the government. The author is adamant about the idea of “Prevention Through Deterrence” and the harsh reality about the border and the way the United States treat those who cross the border. I would like to explain my reaction to each of the chapters below.

Not all migrant farmworkers are undocumented. For example, H-2A is one of many guest worker visa program that is administered through the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor (DOL). The guest visa program offers the US agriculture long term dependence on temporary foreign labor. Foreign workers are also considered easy recruits to fill the tough jobs that US growers say that domestic workers do not want to so. H2A workers are the least regulated of all agricultural workers as they are excluded from the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protections Act (AWPA) which it creation was intended to address labor issues specific to seasonal agricultural workers. It recruits workers from Mexico with promises of good wages and

Those who able to find work are often under the oppression of landowners, being given very little pay along with discrimination and those who tried to protect themselves/ organize they were at risk of losing their job, run out by gun point or policed away. Federal camps are designed as a way of reviving social sensibility, finding decent work and better living conditions for the family but even this creates the argument of the cost for local police and education, the squatter camps under sheriff’s offices, lowering of land value and risk of

What I learned about this migrant family shown in Migrant Mother from this close read, was that they had it hard because there food source was frozen because of the weather. In paragraph one it talks about how a photograph that Lange forward to Washington which became one of the most well-known pictures. This picture was about the migrant families. It mentions that she took around 270,000 pictures but she only took two to Washington though she didn't take "Migrant Mother". It also mentions that all these pictures where negative assembles by her team in which was known as "Resettlement and Farm Security Administration team". In paragraph two it talks about how she got her hands on "Migrant Mother". Also in this paragraph it talks about where

I feel you are asking two totally different questions. Either way they are fair questions. I feel many immigrants do not learn English because “they are too old to learn something new.” Or they are so comfortable speaking their original language because is easier to communicate for them. However we expect them to learn English and integrate to the Anglo society (Huntington 2004). Yet, we don’t provide the resources to do so. Many of the immigrants in the USA do not have the means to go to school to learn English. While there are multiple fee resources that provides free English classes, they are not enough or they are not advertised correctly for them to take advantage. I would suggest to provide the means to allow immigrants

Essay question: Are temporary labour migration programs ethical? Is there a point at which a temporary migrant ought to be offered permanent membership in the host country?