...Undocumented Workers Undocumented workers are present in every country, especially in America; the government is trying to cut the number of its undocumented or illegal workers. But are undocumented workers ruining economy or supporting it, are they stealing jobs from local people or just taking unattractive jobs? Issue of undocumented or illegal workers is very complex, but I will try to find out the truth in my research. Once I had been in a small resort city and asked an owner of a small ice-cream place why most of the workers were foreigners. She told me that usually foreigners are more reliable and responsible and are more afraid of losing their jobs then American workers. That was the reason why every summer she tried to hire foreigners as first opinion and only than American workers. Is this an example of discrimination? I would not say so. Employer is interested to hire employees that would be able to perform their job in the best way. It just happened so that in a low paid hard jobs immigrants perform much better then American workers. Not only because this “low salary” is much higher than in their home country, but also because American workers are not willing to work hard for low salary. As a result, I would like to say the undocumented workers are supporting current American economy. Currently there are 11 million undocumented workers in the U.S. Mexicans constitute the huge part of the undocumented population as 57%, 23% are from other Latin countries, almost 10%...
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...Running head: MEDIA REACTION Week Three: Media Reaction: AP Government Immigration 2011. Individual Assignment Questions. Joseph A. Worch SOC 315 APRIL 12, 2011 Shelley Howell University of Phoenix Running head: MEDIA REACTION Introduction The media reaction to immigration problem in the United Sates is as diverse ad the cultures and peoples it impacts. While there does exist some common public and political views there is also facts information which could alter those positions. The media piece, discussed here, found on YouTube under the title AP Gov. Immigration 2011, posted by dmcb324, a variety of media clips providing information from numerous news sources both local and international are given. This paper will use this media format to address the questions on the media reaction toward immigration. What is the historical framework of this issue? The framework presented in this media presentation covers a current and present time frame beginning with the elections of 2010 through the months of 2011. So the information seen and heard is very up-to-date and thereby relevant in today’s societal issues. What is the political context of this issue? The piece presents all sides of the political spectrum. It utilizes news clips and media information from both liberals and conservatives and well as members of the Democratic and Republican parties. This unique combining of views and information provides for a very thought-provoking...
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...to the United States for a better future for their families and themselves, but not knowing the difficulties they must face crossing the border to get here first. Immigrants know it is not an easy thing to do migrating to the United States because it is not that simple as getting on a plane and heading over here. They must face many challenges and risks crossing the border without getting caught or killed. Once they finally get here (the ones that survive) they realize the danger is not over, but it just beginning. Immigrants that migrate to the United States in pursue of a better life for their families and themselves, but face the first challenge even before crossing the border, which is leaving their families behind. “When men and women immigrate illegally to the United States, they often leave much more than a town and a country. They leave fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. The children sometimes grow up not knowing their parents — and sometimes never seeing them again. In some cases, they come to resent the parent who isn’t there at Christmas or on their birthday or to tuck them in at night.” (Trevizo) leaving family behind is the most difficult thing for a parent because you do not know if you will die trying to cross the border or how long it will take to be reunited with the ones you love. They have to say goodbye to their love ones like if it is the last time he or she will see them again. Immigrants pay money to be sneaked into the United...
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...Dr. Townsend Individual Writing Assignment: Affirmative Action Affirmative action is referred to as a deliberate effort to provide full and equal opportunities in employment, education, and other areas for women, minorities, and individuals belonging to other traditionally disadvantaged groups. As an issue in today’s society, affirmative action requires corporations, universities, and other organizations to establish programs designed to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly. It also places a burden of proof on the providers of opportunities to demonstrate that their granting of opportunities to white males is not discriminatory. To some extent, I do think slavery produced benefits for whites indirectly and passively. This happened through the process of human capital formation (20/20). Slaves made it possible for many whites to go into more rewarding occupations, gain increased skills, and to generate greater lifetime earnings for themselves and their descendants. After slavery, exclusions and discrimination allowed millions of Americans and immigrants to enter occupations with greater projections. In these ways, racism generated income and wealth that continues to appear in present-day recipients. Although discrimination still exists in the workplace today, I do think that it has a much less presence because of the implementation of affirmative action programs. Quite recently, there have been numerous debates regarding whether or not reparations for affirmative...
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...to abolish every English-only laws and policies to “restore to the State Constitution co-equal status for Spanish as an official language of California in recognition of its cultural, historical, economic and demographic importance to the people of this state.” (Peaceandfreedom.org, 2014). As they strive to create equality amongst all, they demand for undocumented workers to have full social, political and economic rights as a non-citizen. They also want the end of closed borders and deportations of immigrants. The Peace and Freedom Party isn’t just about equal rights amongst all, though. They also follow a fight in saving our environment. They believe that our economic system and huge corporations are ruining the world’s biosphere. They strongly fight for socialism because it is “necessary to end the ecological destruction caused by capitalism.” (Peaceandfreedom.org, 2014). In order to protect our environment, they want to make sure that we protect and restore water, air, land and ecosystems. They want to create a mass of public transportation systems that are free and protect not only a biodiverse area, but people in a workplace. Their proposal is to have a society that is in peace with nature along with it’s...
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...workforce and cultural changes. According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) 2013, immigrants account for approximately 80 million or 25 % of the U.S. population as first or second generation. There are various reasons for immigration which include seeking political or religious freedom and economic opportunities. In the U.S. there are four categories of immigrants: legal, refugees, asylees and undocumented. Legal immigrants received permission to enter the U.S. by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). A refugee is someone who was forced to leave his country because of persecution and has received a refugee status before entering the U.S. An asylee is similar to refugee except that he wasn’t granted a legal permission prior to U.S. entry but once he is in the U.S. he should apply for refugee status, if denied he will be deported back to his country. Undocumented immigrants are people who entered the U.S. without legal permission and if found they will be deported. According to the U.S. immigrant national survey 2001, currently there is approximately seven million undocumented immigrants. The production of vegetables and fruits in the U.S. rely on the hand labor of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Migrant farmworkers are similar to seasonal farmworkers in terms of working in agriculture on seasonal basis but seasonal farmworkers didn’t have to migrate. According to the 1962 World Health Organization (WHO), the definition of agricultural worker is “ any person engaged...
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...Diversity: Religion and Workplace Introduction Religion is one of the biggest differences segmenting the world into different parts. There is no other reason from the dawn of time which caused more strife’s and argument among mankind than Religion. Religion can be defined as the faith or moral belief a person possess regarding the nature of being or existing the world. In the modern world there are roughly five or six major religious and yet countless other minor religions have sprung up and are continuing to spring up every day. Each believer of a religion defends and believes in it devoutly, to such an extent that he or she is willing to go towards bloodshed to defend its honor. The major religions of the world include, Islamic, Christianity, Hinduism, Atheism, Judaism, etc. These religions include the set of guidelines for the individuals on which to base their lives. The major religions all dictate that there is a Higher Entity, or God which governs the world and the Universe and all that is contains is it plaything and all the living creatures are its subjects (Trent, 2007). Such devout belief and intolerance against one’s faith becomes a very volatile subject and can become the cause of a major strike in an organization. Any good and reputed organization employees a variety of people all belonging to different backgrounds. Some of these religions might be major while some might be the minor ones. In such a scenario, the minority religion often suffers under...
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...In return, the farms’ material is paid for and the farm owner gets a large supply of money. Another common form of agribusiness is vertical integration. Vertical integration is used to describe a corporation that is involved in more than one phase of processing, packaging, or raising food. (“Industrial Livestock Production”) Corporations that are vertically integrated have complete, utter control over the lives and deaths of animals, which crops are raised, and the work environment. Superiors often abuse and harass workers. Women in the food industry are sexually harassed and abused into thinking sex can be used as a form of payment to superiors. (Schlosser, 176) Slaughterhouse workers are forced to wear head to toe metal plates and chain- mail in attempts to prevent deep cuts in the skin. However, this is often not enough. (Schlosser, 169) According to Lucas Spangher an environmental scientist for Huffington Post, “Workers in the meat industry make an average of $23,000 a year, work 10+ hours a day, are pushed so hard they often defecate in their pants to avoid slowing down and suffer a repetitive motion injury rate 30 times the national average. This statistic misses out on the harassment and abuse that workers face from superiors. Although the exact number...
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...Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration has been a problem for the United States for a long time. This phenomenon is not new because thousands of illegal immigrants have come into US through either the Mexico border, the Pacific Ocean, or through many other ways. Some people have entered the country legally through a visit visa, but then have stayed illegally and are working in various places. Illegal immigration is a double edged sword; in one hand it provide the local economy with cost benefits as the illegal immigrants are not paid so much, while they are more productive. On the other hand, these illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and their employers also do not pay their taxes. There are both pros and cons of illegal immigration and this paper shall take a look at some facts pertinent to illegal immigration in the United States. Every day thousands of illegals stream across the 2,500 miles of border with Mexico. According to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS, the total number of illegals in America from this source increases by 275,000 annually. Already the United States is host to an illegal population of 7 to 12 million, of whom the vast majority are Mexican or Hispanic in origin. These illegal and uninvited guests help themselves to jobs, education, welfare and unemployment compensation. The many whose wages are paid under the table pay little or no taxes. And they are easy prey for unscrupulous employers and politicians (Ted Hayes). The U.S. population...
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...1.1. Introduction Family is the basic unit of society. The United States Census Bureau defines a family as “two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together as one household” (Coltrane, 2004). Roles in a family are seen to be very important because it is considered to be the ground where sex-gender system is established. The roles that are given to each member of the family are usually determined by his or her sex and gender. In a family, there are different individuals and these individuals have certain roles to perform in order for a family to function well. There should be a provider which will be the one responsible for the financial sustainability of the family and there should be a nurturer which will be the one responsible for the growth and development of each individual especially the children. Before, there were assumptions that fathers are only capable and responsible of providing for the material needs of the family even though it is also possible that these fathers can also help in the emotional and personal development of their children. Fathers are only considered good fathers if they can provide for their family. These notions are very much seen in the researches done in the field of gender studies. Males’ roles are the opposite of the females’ roles wherein, as Coltrane (2004) mentioned, becoming masculine is becoming not feminine which can also mean that fatherhood is not motherhood. The idea of the instrumental role...
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...insurance and income. The ethical issues Wal-Mart is facing with off the clock work is that Wal-Mart managers alleges they do not allow employees to work off the clock but through investigations and lawsuits this has been found to be untrue. Wal-Mart is not treating the employees fairly by compensating them for work they performed in order to keep cost down and to show a profit. Wal-Mart faces sexual discrimination issues which are unethical due to using personal opinion on the judgment that women do not want to be managers. They are not treating women equally in the areas of pay, respect, and equality. While it is important for a company to manage cost to be profitable, the health care benefits that Wal-Mart provides could be considered unethical because their cost for benefits were more than other companies. In order to reduce health care cost, it was recommended to hire more part time workers and less unhealthy individuals. Wal-Mart’s unethical solution for addressing unions in the workplace was to either eliminate the department that tried to unionize to deter the employees or in some cases terminate employees if they supported unions. Another unethical situation was when Wal-Mart tried to leverage employees bonuses against them becoming unionized. One of the larger ethical...
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...In this cartoon, you will see a group of people holding up a sign that reads, “I have a dream (act)” and directly in front of the groups stands a very angry woman yelling, “Not here you don’t!” DREAM act is an acronym for: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. The DREAM act was a bill that congress passed that granted certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as a child and attends school here. This bill sparked many peoples interested and has been a constant debate ever since it was passed. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, said, "Americans should be outraged that President Obama is planning to usurp the Constitutional authority of the United States Congress and grant amnesty by edict to 1 million illegal aliens," said King. However, Rahm Emanuel, says ”I applaud President Obama for making strides that will not only help the City of Chicago grow, but will give families and students across the country a better chance of achieving the American Dream.” This cartoon is a testimony to that. The main issue on this cartoon is also discrimination. Anyone who is a...
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...designed to prevent discrimination in the workplace; numerous amendments have been made to make the definitions easier to understand by clearly outlining inappropriate behaviors and actions. The following paragraphs will discuss the history of Title VII , the amendments, defining covered employees, disparate treatment, and sexual harassment. Policies that should be in effect in the workplace will also be discussed with the intent of further educating the readers. The History and Evolution of Title VII and its amendments (PDA, ADA, ADEA) Title VII was born out of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964 and has grown to become the laws that almost all businesses must comply with. Title VII states that "it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” This title also makes it unlawful to "limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" (Bennett-Alexander and Hartman, 2007). Title VII gave new rights to minorities and women who were limited to the means of solving...
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...workers. The second is pink card that they have to register in Thai government. The pink card extension plan would benefit the Thai government, since the migrants would have to pay about 2500 bath (about K 80,000). Moreover, agencies and brokers are alliance and make money through the process since the pink- card holder need an employer's approval. There have 1.7 million migrant workers are legal. "Undocumented workers have to pay the Thai police 100 Thai baht when they were arrest. Nevertheless, some police are asking 500 baht, even from pink cardholders. Most of migrant are worried about that they lose their money.'' Thai police arrest them because of without pink cards or NV cards. Most of employer keep them their cards and when the workers want to change jobs they do not give it them. After that, workers do not get high salaries, but they have to register and some have to register under their employer name. Then, their workplaces are not safety for them. The third one is 62 percent of women migrant workers are facing careless health problems in Thailand. For example, some women got pregnant...
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...1. Why do you buy the products that you buy? Does the desire to satisfy basic necessary needs such as shelter, hunger, and thirst account for the majority of the products that you purchase? Do you ever purchase any products that are not strictly necessary? (E.g., Are your choices of clothing merely a matter of having something to wear—or do they express a desire to “look good,” to “feel good,” to “fit in,” and so on?). Give examples that help to support your answer. Many products are so essential to our lives today so there are many reasons on why we buy products. Some examples are people desire to eat because they are hungry. But to most people they prefer to eat at a fast food restaurant because they are too lazy to cook or they just want to have a hamburger somewhere instead of eating a sandwich at home. I have a desire to go on an expensive vacation let’s say to Hawaii and many people who can afford it will pay it because either they want to get away or they just feel they earned it because they work hard all year around. To some people they may feel that paying for an expensive vacation may not be worth it at all and prefer to not spend and just stay at home with their family members. Of course people have to meet their shelter needs, hunger, and thirst or how can people stay alive is the question? But some people also don’t want to eat healthy items buy staying healthy instead of eating some much meat they can eat fish to live longer. As eating too much fast food can...
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