Tarek Immigration Experience In The Film The Visitor

The film The Visitor, offers a significant insight of Tarek immigration experience. The film also offers a unique glimpse into the United States immigration detention system and the people it affects. Tarek was in the train station, when he let Walter use his metro card, and is himself entangled in the turnstile. The policemen’s accused Tarek of jumping the turnstile and gets arrested. At his arrest, is learned that he is an illegal immigrant and taken to a detention center in Queens. This film offers an insight on the injustice and discrimination of the immigration system in the United States. I felt empathy towards Tarek. My parents migrated to the United States in hope of living the American Dream. I began to think about what if my parents

Walter began to use the drum as a way of positively coping with his depressive symptoms. He begins to develop coping skills and his life starts to shift into a mode of engagement, connections, and meaning. As Walter connects, he develops insight on his depressive symptoms and lack of motivation. The scene in which he tells Mauna “The truth is I haven’t done any real work in a long time” is his ability to self-identify the negative impact that his depressive symptoms had on his life including his job as a teacher. Having awareness is the first step towards

Also, as immigrant this affects Zainab and Mauna, because it allows them to see the injustice and the oppression in immigration system. The film illustrates how society labels illegal immigrants as outside the norm, marginalized Tarek. Immigrant are being deported and exposed to the injustice system. According to Masiglia and Kulis (2015), “Discrimination is the unequal treatment of individuals based on their group membership rather than on their individual qualities.”(p.48). Tarek was not only discriminated based on this immigration status, he was also discriminated on the fact that he is Palistine. Post 9/11, America are hostile towards suspicious visitors. The film provides a great example of the effects on individuals and society of a falied immigration system. False genorosity, was made through out the film. The thought of Tarek being able to come out the detention center. Walter informing Tarek that he will come out is false. The fact that the Lawyer informs, Walter and Mauna that Tarek would come out is also