What Are The Similarities Between Blade Runner And Immigration

The film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott can be interpreted as a border-crossing story. The Physical migration of the Replicants from the colony to the Earth is one reason for the interpretation. Moreover, the Replicants are moving from one culture in the off-world colony where they were slaves to a completely different culture in the Earth where they autonomously decide their occupation.
The real life example of the Replicants is illegal immigrants. The Replicants are uninvited guests in the Earth. They came down to the Earth to dream a better life than their lives as slaves back in the colony. Similarly, illegal immigrants are uninvited guests in other countries, and they also dream a better life. Unfortunately, both groups are still the lowest group of the population even after the immigration. Another similarity is that there is particular organization in the government to hunt them down. In real life, there is an immigration office under the department of homeland security to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country. Likewise, in the movie, the blade runners are special group of police officers that are there to specifically catch the escaped Replicants.

Another group of people who are similar with Replicants in many ways are North Koreans.

North Koreans, in a way, better represent the Replicants because they are locked in a particular location. North Koreans are not allowed to go to move out from North Korea and, in a like manner, the Replicants are not allowed to move out from the off world colony. Moreover, North Koreans are born to do certain jobs. They are not allowed to change this assignment. The Replicants, too, are created to do certain jobs. Most tragic similarity comes from the fact that the Replicants are “retired,” murdered, once they are caught. Similarly, North Koreans are killed when they are caught escaping out from North

Korea.
Finally, the Replicants are similar with the employees in the sweating system. Sweating system is an exploitation of labor by giving them little wage, nearly no wage. It is also called modern version of slavery system because of its notorious abuse of labors. In the movie, the Replicants are created to do dangerous or menial work in a replacement of human labor. In other words, both labors in the sweating system and the Replicants are a different version of slavery. Many employees in the sweating system attempts to escape out of the factories, also called as sweatshop, that they work in. Despite not having any alternative ways of living, the workers in the sweatshop believes that they can have a better life if it is not in the sweatshop. If the workers successfully escape, they also have a border crossing experience. However, in most case, they are caught by the sweatshop owners or fail to get a new job and, consequently, return back to the sweatshop. The blade runner, Rick, also, eventually, catches all the escaped Replicants in the movies.
Despite the film being fictional, there are many similar groups of people, including but not limited to illegal immigrants, North Koreans, and the labors in sweatshop, in real life that can represent the Replicants and their story of border crossing.