Week 1 Migrant Worker Conflicts/Perspectives
What are the conflicts / different perspectives at play in the story?
I don’t know very much about this topic, and I have not done much research, but my current understanding is:
- Farmers:
- Want cheap labor
- Possible thinking they are helping migrants
- Supplying migrants with jobs
- Blackmailing them into playing less than minimum wage
- Basically being able to not give them full American rights, because they are not American citizens.
- Migrant Workers:
- Getting jobs that they might not be able to find anywhere else
- Lower pay
- Poor living conditions
- Very few rights
- Living in fear of authorities and deportation
- Activist Groups:
- Want better lives and more rights for illegals
- Most prominent group is Migrant Justice/Milk with Dignity
- Feel they are not being treated fairly for all the work they are doing
- Anti Activists/Police/Government
- These immigrants are here illegally
- It’s their job to try to keep these immigrants out
- Take American jobs and have a negative effect on the community
- They might understand that these immigrants are boosting the economy, but they need to at least try to deport them
- Do they know that there are so many illegals on dairy farms?
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