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The Life of an Undocumented Immigrant “Illegal Alien”, a phrase that we as Americans place upon a specific group of people because we rather just create a degrading name and put it onto someone we do not understand before we actually take the time to sit and talk with the person. Undocumented immigrants are human and come over to the US to have a better life for themselves or for their family. They do not take the risks of crossing over to be ridiculed and criticized for what they have done. In “Introduction: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism” by Melissa Wright the author talks about the way that American companies treat the third-world woman when she comes over to work. Corporations do not see this woman, this human as …show more content…
a living, breathing being but as an object that can be thrown out when they see fit. These women rather come to the US and be treated like trash than stay where they currently reside because they believe that the US will give them more opportunities. In “The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker” by Rana Dasgupta the author talks about a young Turkish girl who is taken from her home in a cave with her elderly mother and placed in an exquisite home with a rich husband. The mapmaker takes her only to repay a debt to the mother, who saved his life. She was not considered a person she was more considered as a burden. Undocumented immigrants deserve to be treated just like the rest of the US citizens. They should not be excluded and treated like animals. We should all be treated as equals and not as if we are better than a certain race. Women are a large target in the US already but once you add in the factor of being an undocumented immigrant your life is destined to be difficult. Citizens are constantly watching you, hoping that you make one mistake so they can have a reason to deport you. Large companies want to see documents to make sure you are a legal citizen of the US. Most undocumented immigrants are not able to gain access to legal documents therefore making the task of obtaining a job very difficult.
Some women come to the US and take any job that is available even if it means doing long hours and not getting paid a lot of money. Corporations travel over to third-world countries and hire women to do small jobs in large factories for little to no pay. They only hire a certain type of woman. In “Introduction: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism” the author touches on the subject of the treatment of the third-world woman and what companies expect from her: “This woman turns into a form of industrial waste, at which point she is discarded and replaced.” (Wright, 6) Once this woman has become old and no longer able to perform the task that she was hired for originally, the company throws her out and simply replaces her with another woman. The third world woman has a sad destiny of coming to the US and dealing with the unfair treatment of companies that do not even appreciate their work. The treatment of third world women is horrible and no human being should be treated in such a way. They should be at least acknowledged as humans and not treated as some trash that just thrown onto the side of the road. At the end of …show more content…
the day the third world woman should be praised instead of degraded for her sacrifice and suffering. According to society the way that these women are treated is necessary. “The suffering and sacrifice, particularly on the part of women, are often required to move society in its proper direction.” (“Introduction: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism” 6). This is what society honestly believes and uses these naïve women as stepping stones to get ahead. If that’s true then why treat this woman with such disrespect and not even acknowledge the risks and sacrifices that she has made to come over to the US and work under inhumane conditions? There is no one that may be identical to the third world woman but there are women who hold some traits that the third world woman may have. They hold the elements of disposability and can be replaced just as easily as they were hired. The myth of the disposable third woman is paradoxical. Even though the third woman is treated as trash and thrown out by a company, she has actually become more valuable to another company. The company that threw her out after she reached a certain age has made her more desired by another company, hence the saying “Another man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Just because a company replaces an older woman and forgets about her does not mean she does not have any hope to gain another job. Most multi-million dollar companies want experience over appearance, making the older women have an advantage over the younger ones. Some companies rather have the older women because they are more patient and attentive than the younger employees. So even though she is considered as trash to some she also seen as a valuable asset. “The third-world woman possesses certain traits that make her labor particularly valuable to global firms that require dexterous, patient, and attentive workers.” (“Intro. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism” 2). This woman is considered as a valuable asset to global companies because she is able to make goods for the company. The third world woman creates wonderful and popular things through her destruction. She used the degrading treatment of companies to help her come up within society and created prosperity. The “third world woman” is a woman that is able to connect with the lives of real life women. The third world woman is a myth and according to Wright: “Myth [is] not merely a (mis) representation of the real. It [is] material for shaping the possibilities and limits of action. And in general it appears to have done this by feeding the desire to display the actual.” (“Intro. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism” 4). The myth of the third world woman is to give the women that think they have no hope while they become older working in a large factory for a boss who does not care about them after they are laid off. This myth lets the women look toward the future and give them motivation to stay in the US. Undocumented immigrant women come to the US hoping to start a better life.
They see the US as the land of opportunity. In In “The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker” by Rana Dasgupta the author speaks about a German man named Klaus who took on the task of taking care of a Turkish girl named Deniz in order to repay the debt to the mother of the girl. He saw the girl as a burden and continued to keep her locked up in mansion in the middle of nowhere. The girl on the other hand saw the situation as something that she could benefit from. She traveled unground from turkey to Germany, hoping that she would finally have a better life. Klaus on the other hand, just saw her as a waste of space. He did not want anyone to know that he was housing an undocumented immigrant. Klaus took her to one of the hotels in Germany and got her hired as a maid. The hotel hired many immigrants, letting them work so they may stay in the country. Deniz thought that working everyday was the normal life for a citizen. She never thought she was just being used. She did not even realize that she was an immigrant. Immigrant was just a characteristic in a person or a physical attribute. “This is the place where I am illegal. Don’t go out of the house. You’re illegal in this place, remember. Can the people see illegal in my eyes? Have I, Deniz, become different, now I am illegal? How strange it all is.” (“The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker” 108) She did not completely understand the concept of being an
undocumented immigrant. Klaus did not want her to go anywhere unless he knew about it. Being such a burden on him, he left for Paris for a few days and left her alone in the house. She was told to stay in the house and clean. She was more of a servant to him while to her he was a husband. She did not understand why she was not allowed to go outside. She found it strange to not be able to go to Paris with him. She stayed in the house and did as she was told, always cleaning and being a “good wife”. She explored the house one day and found a mirror in a room. The room held 13 dresses and she tried on each one. She saw a different scenario with each dress that she tried on. She finally tried on all the dresses and stared at the mirror. The mirror tore down her body until she saw the mere atoms of her being. She sat down in front of the mirror and looked at herself again. She noticed that she was just like every other woman “And then she took off the last dress and stood naked. ‘How surprising’, she thought as she watched herself in the mirror, ‘that I look just like other women. I have a body like theirs, I have breasts as they do, and I am beautiful as they are.” (“The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker”) Immigrants are just like every other human being. They have a heart, mind, and soul just like the rest of us. They shouldn’t be degraded to the point where they think that they’re an “alien”. They are human they deserve to be treated like the one. Undocumented immigrants want to stay in the US for a reason. Most of them time it is for a good reason like wanting to get a better paying job or wanting to start a family in a better place. A piece of paper should not be the reason why immigrants should not be able to stay in the US. Undocumented Immigrants are people who take risks to stay in the US. They will do whatever is possible to stay even if it means being criticized and watched for everything that they do. They want to live a normal life just like every other citizen of the United States. Undocumented Immigrants should not be labeled as “aliens” and they definitely should not be treated as waste. Each Undocumented Immigrant has their own special talent and it would be most likely be helpful when it came to hiring for jobs in a large company. We as average American citizens may not see the true potential in Undocumented Immigrants but large companies and global businesses see future employees and hire them. Undocumented Immigrants deserve the same benefits as US citizens. Why should we keep someone different from having a better life? It should not be our decision to decide if someone from a different country is worthy enough to come over the United States. It should be the individual’s decision on whether they have the ability to stay.
Even though her sister’s dress factory is small and the few ladies who work there do not get paid much, all them work hard and respect Estela. Relating to Heidi Schmidt’s article “Small, Foreign, and Female” work conditions are similar for women like Ana. "There are just three things I look for in entry-level hiring," Hossfeld recalls the manager saying. "Small, foreign, and female. You just do that right and everything else takes care of itself." (Schmidt). Women are seen as push overs in the work place and men expect them to be submissive when it comes to being in the workplace. Ana refuses to be a weak worker when she gets a job at Estela’s factory for the summer and makes all the other working women realize that they are beautiful and worth more than what is under their
Since the Industrial Revolution in the United States of America, working conditions for women and minorities have not been given equal pay or top positions in the work place. Women being degraded by the men in charge, and minorities constantly at odds with one another so they will not form a Union. Such things keep those with low-status in the job in line, and not feel they are equal to the ones in charge. People from other countries are in search for a better life elsewhere, and take the risk of going to the United States illegally to seek out the American Dream. The articles Working at Bazooms by Meika Loe and At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die by Charlie LeDuff deal with the working conditions for women and minorities. Workers in both articles have to deal with having terrible working conditions, harassment in the workplace, low-status within the job, and the constant fear of job loss.
Young girls were not allowed to open the windows and had to breathe in the dust, deal with the nerve-racking noises of the machines all day, and were expected to continue work even if they 're suffering from a violent headache or toothache (Doc 2). The author of this report is in favor of employing young women since he claimed they seemed happy and they loved their machines so they polished them and tied ribbons on them, but he didn 't consider that they were implemented to make their awful situations more bearable. A woman who worked in both factory and field also stated she preferred working in the field rather than the factory because it was hard work but it never hurt her health (Doc 1), showing how dangerous it was to work in a factory with poor living conditions. Poor living conditions were common for nearly all workers, and similar to what the journalist saw, may have been overlooked due to everyone seeming
Imagine being employee number 101 out of 1001. Now imagine working on an assembly line in a hot room filled with 1000 other women frantically assembling products for first world countries to use for ten seconds before discarding for a newer version. This job pays enough for you to get by but living in a third world country with low pay isn’t easy. What many people don’t understand is that the cost of production in a third world country is more inexpensive than it is in America. Hiring women to work in horrid conditions decreases employee loss because they are not rambunctious like men. “Life on the Global Assembly Line” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes clearly illustrates the hardships women go through for U.S. corporation production. Corporate powers have resorted to building production plants in third world countries to save money. U.S. corporate powers take advantage of third world
In America today, race/ethnicity, class categorization, and gender inequalities are just some of the most controversial issues that have created social division in every facet of our society. Gender inequality for one, remains a significant issue from the past up to this day. Looking at history, women have struggled to gain equal rights as well as equal pay against their male counterpart. As described in her book, “Cutting into the Meatpacking Line”, Deborah Fink detailed the inequalities against women and ethnic groups in the meatpacking plant where she had a first-hand experience as a worker. Furthermore, capitalism played an important role in the inequalities in race, gender, culture, and ethnicity, and it has also legitimized the disparities
The author, Jo-Ann Pilardi accurately writes about immigration in her article “Immigration Problem Is about Us, Not Them.” All Immigrants, whether they are legal or illegal know that having the chance to live in America, is a dream come true or in other words, “a chance in paradise.” America is known for its opportunities. Immigrants came to the United States for a very significant purpose. Their purpose and goal is to take advantage of the opportunities in the land known as, “the land of opportunity.” Immigrants did not come here to damage the country or to over burden its inhabitants. That author states, “Many of our political leaders talk hard line about immigration reform even though they know our country is mired in its demand for the
There is a common consensus among people around the world that the United States of America is the greatest country in the world because it is the land of opportunity, and the land of immigrants. In fact, the United States of America has always been the epicenter for the world 's greatest minds, and where hard work is recognized and rewarded. A place where boys become the future leaders of the world. A place where everyone, regardless of the color of their skin and their religion collaborate to solve the world’s future/current problems. Recently though, many Americans claim that undocumented immigrants steal their jobs, don’t pay any taxes, and still reap the benefits such as free public schooling. However, the author of “My Life as an Undocumented
There are protests being conducted daily in the United States by people who desire an increase in minimum wage, but what about those from third world countries who receive less than a dollar an hour, this essay will discuss third world feminism and maquiladoras, whom manufacture a majority of our clothing in extremely cruel conditions that are unsuitable for any human being. Not to mention, the environment in which these people perform in is so atrocious that a pregnancy test is a prerequisite for women before being employed due to the elevated risk of a miscarriage. In the article Discrimination in the Maquiladoras, the woman converges about administering the pregnancy test and how appalled she was by the concept, the risk that women were
Iversen, Torben and Frances Rosenbluth. Women, Work, and Power: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Kindle E-Book.
Women are not born with the same physical capabilities as men and therefore they are discriminated upon as not being capable of achieving the same tasks as males in the same or similar positions in the work environment. Although women have contributed to the economic growth of their country and work as doctors, teachers and electrician there is still a great deal of discrimination. Women have low status because they are exploited by powerful men for work they do. Selma state ”Women are not treated fairly with the respect they deserve from institutions.” Women face discrimination in the work place all over the world. Even when applying for a job, women have to undertake the legacy of an old chauvinist society. For instance, a manager/ owner have problems hiring a woman for a position that is traditionally held by a man because he thinks that she would not fit and should not be rewarded with the financial merit as that of
One important question that needs to be asked is, “what is equal?” Equality between sexes and race has been stressed and made law in the late nineteenth century, but even though laws have been made to protect woman from this discrimination, it still occurs frequently. Equal is being treated the same way and having the same opportunities no matter who one is. Big business has not given women the chance to be equal with men. One does not normally see a woman as the owner, or even the manager of a major corporation, these jobs consistently go to men. Traditi...
Most of the jobs that the illegal workers do are consider dirty to the Americans, an example would be the agricultural sector. The Pew Hispanic Trust provides analysis to prove that most illegals in the United State are employed in agriculture of all types. The analysis also shows that the largest number of unauthorized immigrant workers are found in most 39 states, especially the District of Columbia where large number of illegal immigrants are involve in agronomy. The large amount of illegals working as farmers have helped reduce the cost of food and anything related has reducedImmigration is a growing topic in the United States with the more pressing issue illegal immigration. The term immigration is defined as the movement of people to
Thousands if not millions of women have been oppressed for a very long time. Oppressing women needs to stop. It is important that men and women become equals.women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
Men have dominated the workforce for most of civilization up until their patriotic duties called away to war. All of a sudden, the women were responsible for providing for their family while the men were away. Women went to work all over America to earn an income to insure their family’s survival. Women took all sorts of jobs including assembly line positions, office jobs, and even playing professional baseball. When the men returned home from war, the women were expected to resume their place as housewives. The women who had gotten a taste of the professional life decided that they wanted to continue working. Thus, the introduction to women in a man’s working environment began. Women were not taken seriously at first, because they were stepping into a “man’s world”.
It can be concluded that women are treated in terms of stereotyped impressions of being the lowest class and greater evidence can be found that there are large disparities between the women and the men 's class. It can be seen that women are more likely to play casual roles as they are most likely to take seasonal and part time work so that they can work according to their needs. They are hampered from progressing upward into the organizations as they face problems like lack of health insurance, sexual harassments, lower wage rates, gender biases and attitudes of negative behavior. However, this wouldn’t have hampered the participation of the women in the work force and they continue to increase their efforts which is highly evident in the occupational and job ratios of females in the industry.