The Importance Of Being An Immigrant In Quito Ecuador

The “Water Rising”, documentary describes changes in Bolivia during the period of time where water was scarce and families were fighting to survive. The film demonstrates family living in shacks that don’t contain the necessaries for living. Despite the horrible living condition, the individuals are also faced with sickness. An individual from the film developed external TB which is a threat to one’s life. They were not able to afford a barrel of water which was about $1 USD. Many families also rely on casual training due to lack of employment. Although, they earn some kind of money it is not enough due to a lot of individual that take part in selling. The most heart touching moment from the documentary is when I noticed women on the sidewalk

The essay "How Immigrants Become 'Other'" by Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco illustrates the issue of immigrants never truly being accepted by natural born citizens of America. In the essay, it is discussed that immigrants are and have been treated differently. The different ways immigrants are treated differently is almost an unintelligent question to ask. Instead the question, “How aren’t immigrants treated differently?” should be asked. Even the names politicians and society have created to describe immigrants are alienating and harsh, “Illegal, undocumented, alien.” The idea of a human being illegal is something that most people overlook, but the reality is, no human is illegal. This idea of immigrants being associated with names that have such negative connotations is one of many ideas discussed in the essay "How Immigrants Become ‘Other’.”Even though America is known as a “melting pot,” immigrants will never truly be accepted as a part of society no matter the amount of assimilation due to the blatant racism, segregation, and prejudice that non-immigrants have against immigrants.

Immigration involves the movement of a group of people from one country to another where they do not possess citizenship. There are many reasons in which people may leave their country such as employment, lack of resources, family, fear due to violence, exile, the American dream. In 1965, Congress changed immigration law in ways that allowed much more intake from Asia and Latin America than earlier. Before 1965, the intake was mostly from Europe. Since then, over half has come from Latin America—28 % just from Mexico. The share of population composed of non-Hispanic whites plunged from 84 % in 1965 to only 62 % in 2015 while Hispanics soared from 4 to 18 %. (Mead, L.M., 2016)

People in Central America especially, long to have their basic necessities met. Visiting Guatemala and Mexico at the age of ten was a hard site to see. Kids walking on the street barefoot not because they wanted to, but they had no money to buy shoes. Making their dirty feet ache at night. Wearing the same clothes full of filth because they could not afford to buy clothes and soap. Parents struggling to provide for their family. They would often sent their child to school without lunch, making it hard for the student to concentrate at school. Any little money counts and they would make it last. Yet they were so welcoming and loving to guest. They had nothing to offer but the little they had they would offer. Family’s full of frustration and no hope turn to the journey of going to “el Norte”. Hoping to have a better life and help their family improve their social status.

Humanity is ever so much more complicated than one could have ever imagined. Humans can thrive on change, but ultimately look for something to declare as home. In search of this home people travel long distances and risk everything they have. When an American contemplates the word immigrant, one imagines the countless people from Mexico crossing into our country or the refugees that hope to make this country their home. What eludes most of us, however, is the reality that most people were, at one point, immigrants to this country and that our forefathers came here exactly the same as refugees come today. What is brought to mind when I hear the word immigrant is hope and perseverance. I remember the countless people who have traveled here

With no working water many have substituted, showers for “Bird Baths”. ‘That includes deciding whether to use precious water hauled from the local fire stations for the “bird baths” Mrs Gallegos says everyone now has instead of showers, or flushing the toilet’(Source 2). Using the toilet is also a everyday dilemma some have resorted to doing their business outside. “Sometimes,” she says, nodding towards her youngest child, “when she needs to go, I just take her outside”(Source 2). Many have not taken showers in months, because of the lack of water. “For Angelica Gallegos, the worst part has been going without a shower for five months”(Source 2). The lack of water has also had a strain on people's pockets, some dive out of town to take proper showers. “When it first went dry, we used to drive to my daughter’s house in Visalia about 45 minutes away to have a shower,” he says. “But it was costing a lot of money in gas”(Source

Out of all nations that publish water sanitation statistics, Haiti is the only country in which there are more individuals today without clean water than there were over twenty years ago (Gelting, Bliss, Patrick, Lockhart, & Handzel, 2013, p. 665). This is largely due to the water crisis occurring in Haiti over the last century. Haiti’s struggles can be derived from the nation’s inability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, economic instability, societal wealth discrepancy, and a cholera outbreak. These differing facets can all be analyzed through the natural, social, and political perspectives in order to demonstrate the severity of the Haitian water crisis, the failure of current attempts at resolution, and the need for further

Compounding this lack of care, Haitians also lack clean drinking water and proper sanitation systems. Less than half the population has access to clean drinking water, a rate that is only surpassed by civil war-torn African nations. Even worse, half the population of Haiti can be categorized as “food insecure,” and this malnutrition has created a generation where half of all Haitian children are undersized (IFRC, 2010). In addition, this poor sanitation and hygiene, coupled with inadequate nutrition, have contributed to exceptionally high levels of individuals with chronic, yet often at best ill-treated, conditions.

My topic for the junior research paper has to do with the consequences of deporting illegal Latin American immigrants. As of right now I know that there are many illegal Latin Americans living in the United States and this group of people make up a large part of our workforce. Many different aspects of our economy could be affected by the removal of illegal Latin Americans. Some examples of this are farming, restaurants and landscaping. If the United States government did decide to get rid of the undocumented Latin Americans we would lose a large percentage of people who work the dirty jobs that help run our country as well as some important people in the MLB. As well as economical factors, many families in the US would be torn apart due to deportation of Latin Americans. Mothers, fathers and grandparents could all be forced to leave even though their child is a

The country was foreign, a first for me. Dilapidation and ruin scattered the horizon as far as one could see. Guatemala is a place where poverty has a strong grasp on its people. We traveled tirelessly for hours to reach the poorest of the poor. Upon arrival old, young, and natives of all shapes and sizes formed receiving lines, eager to welcome us with gifts of smiles and gratitude. It was an experience that forever changed me. This was the first time I had stepped outside the boundaries of the American culture into a world where nothing is taken for granted. Each day spent on my mission trip brought a fresh awareness of gratefulness. Any pre-trip reluctance quickly became a vague memory as my emotions welled within bring a fresh change to

The summer of freshmen to sophomore year I had the opportunity to check my rank. I received the surprise of a life time when I found out I was number four. Shocked, I never thought myself to be capable of being in the single digit ranks. I committed myself to keeping that rank; I would be the first one of my sisters to have accomplished to be in the top 10 people of her class. I have kept trying my best to accomplish much more throughout my high school years. I look around at my family and I see my cousins and my cousins children who are older than me and almost none of them have continued to college. I see them and I don't want to be them; I don't want to be the predicted outcome of Hispanic immigrants. Seeing my own accomplishments motivates

The Central American population in the United States was very small in the 1950s and 1960s. The Central American immigrant population began to increase in the late 1970s when a series of civil wars broke out across the region. In the late 1990s, unauthorized Salvadorians, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans became eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) this gave them provisional protection against deportation with work authorization.

Does the current Mexico-US border protect American citizens from immigrants entering the United States from Latin American countries and has border security had any effect in the U.S economy in the past ten years? For the past ten years the United States has had a massive surge in immigration across the Mexico-US border. What has been alarming, however, is how many of these immigrants are minors under the age of eighteen. Notwithstanding, the real issue is whether or not the billions of dollars spent annually by the United States government is actually protecting Native Americans from any threat or harm. This essay will explore the issues behind immigration in the United States specifically those focused on Latin American Immigrants and the

One of the greatest issues that we encountered in Haiti was the lack of access to clean drinking water. The water that is delivered

In the summer of 2014, as a part of the Global Medical Brigades, I visited and stayed at a small village in Nicaragua for 11 days. While visiting Nicaragua, I was really astonished by the lack of health care as well as, the lack of any health system in particular. Families did not have access to any type of medicine, unless they lived in the village and had money to spend. However, this was not the case for many of the families in the village so several of them suffered and fell ill to diseases and infections. Also, the water was not very clean and access to clean water, once again, could only be found in cities. About 50% of the population lives in poverty in which 85% of this population struggle to live on more than one-dollar daily (Balint 1999). Several communities are limited in their access to basic health services because of poor road infrastructure, which makes transportation and trade tremendously difficult. Historically, each step forward that Nicaragua has taken in the realm of development has been counteracted with a step back in the form of a revolution, natural disasters, repealing of funding for governmental projects or foreign aid. The focus of my research is observing and recording the factors that contribute to the high mortality rate of the Nicaragua populations and how these challenges can be combatted and resolved. My paper will discuss the inaccessibility of health care and why it is difficult to reach among populations that live in poverty and rural