Sleep Dealer Globalization

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The futuristic film Sleep Dealer directed by Alex Rivera, released on January 19, 2008, presents modern-day issues with scenarios of the near future. Technology, labor, migration and exploitation are all showcase themes that are applicable and existing to the lives of many immigrants. Many immigrants as displayed in the film Sleep Dealer, initiate with life in small ranchos, where conditions of life are not the best. These immigrants, from Mexico and South America, come from families that were mostly field workers and in a week’s time, they find themselves in Los Angeles which is one of the most metropolises on earth or in Chicago. An immigrant’s life denotes the differences between the south and the north of the planet. We can see how extremely divided the world is and how the life of …show more content…

In this book, globalization is defined as “an internationalization of contractual hiring, exploiting even cheaper migrant labor” (page 231). Globalization is a cultural phenomenon process in which a business or an organization begins to operate their production on an international scale. In his book, we see how globalization affected corn farmers in Mexico. Globalization open the door to the system a free market trade. In Illegal People, U.S corn farmers sold their corn to Mexico, causing Mexican corn farmers to severely lose profit since American farmers were selling their corn way cheaper. An example of how globalization is seen on Sleep Dealer is how an American company privatized water in Memo’s rancho. By privatizing the water, the company sold quantities of water at unreasonable prices, leading Memo’s dad to struggle to maintain his corm field. The American company who privatized the water could this through the usage of technology. Technology is one of the factors that led to the rise of

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