The Other Side of Immigration': Summary Essay

Mr. Roy Germano toured the 2009 depressed areas of Mexico to complete his doctoral thesis. What he found led him to record it on video; it was just him and his camera. He said 'My goal was to give people from poor communities in rural Mexico an opportunity to tell their stories, talk about why they emigrate, and suggest solutions to the biggest political and economic problems that stimulate and perpetuate mass emigration'.

According to the latest study by Pew Research, 860,000 Mexicans left their country to enter the US from 2009 to 2014, less than a third of the volume registered 15 years ago when the ceiling of three million was reached. This does not eliminate the problem that thousands of Mexicans face every year as they must leave their homes to seek a better life in the neighboring country risking their lives. Life in the US is not simple, especially if you have arrived without papers. When someone arrives, they find that the American dream is unattainable and that it often becomes a nightmare.

This documentary continues to be screened at universities in the United States, maintaining its validity due to the current situation. The harsh words of President Donald Trump in Laredo, on the border with Mexico, with whom he urged to build a wall on the border, and the accusations of the ex-senator for Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, towards the Mexican government, keep alive the flame of debate migratory.

This documentary is perfectly presented the recent situation not only for Mexicans but of all Central and South America. How they must run as they are now and walk all the way to here looking for a better opportunity of life for their families which is perfectly legit and understood. I will never support anything illegal but also, we need to be more solidary with them. Some people complain that they are coming here to take our jobs they come here to take the jobs that we don’t want to do for a pay a lot less than some of us even consider doing to support their families sending money to those they leave back there when came here. Not all of them are delinquents and drug addicts, even some of them are part of the One Percent and join our Armed Forces to do the job that some called Americans don’t even consider doing defending a nation that is not theirs but open the doors for them, and that is worthy of admiration. All of us didn’t have the necessity to pack our things and go to another country (learn another language, run for our life the way they are doing now) because we are blessed to be in “the land of the free and the home of the brave” because some of us, including some of them have the guts to put the uniform and tie the boots and defend the freedom that we enjoy today leaving our families, friends, etc. even without knowing if we will be back or not and fight for it. That includes some of those brothers and sisters in arms that are from those countries that our government pretends to close the doors for them now. We must do something. We must find a way to support them. We owe this to these men and women that defended and still defending our freedom!! Somebody said a long time ago: “Freedom is not free” and I think this is a good way to pay back.

My primary purpose is to highlight the existing links in the region between ethnicity, race, and equity. The central approach pointed out in the documentary is that the poverty and marginality of Mexicans have their origin in sociocultural and economic factors of long historical history where ethno-racial discrimination plays a central role as a source of exclusion, poverty, and marginality for these populations.

To illustrate this problem is presented a global panorama of the current situation of Mexico in demographic, social, economic, and cultural terms. It describes the international development of third-generation human rights and the consolidation of economic, social, and cultural rights in emergency processes within the region. A general review is made of a set of regional instances, mechanisms, and institutions that currently operate and that can serve as a starting point for the generation of new governmental and private strategies to overcome ethnic-racial iniquities.

Save your time!
We can take care of your essay

• Proper editing and formatting
• Free revision, title page, and bibliography
• Flexible prices and money-back guarantee

Place Order

Based on over 700 interviews in Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, The Other Side of Immigration asks why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. Through an approach that is both subtle and thought-provoking, filmmaker Roy Germano provides a perspective on undocumented immigration rarely witnessed by American eyes, challenging audiences to imagine more creative and effective solutions to the problem. 'There are inevitably real people behind the strident slogans and ideological labels in today's immigration debate”. Roy Germano’s The Other Side of Immigration does more than any other work to give people otherwise disparaged as 'threatening' and 'illegal' a human face and to reveal the devastating personal effects of U.S. immigration and economic policies on our closest neighbors.

The dream of equality has accompanied education since the beginning of the modern era, well with a permanent confusion or sliding between the equality of results (an idea more rooted in the environment of primary school and, by extension, compulsory and equal opportunities (more linked to the context of secondary and university education). In fact, most of the social utopias, even the different proposals for overcoming capitalism, are the renegade of all forms of social inequality, education, but a meritocracy based on education.

Today there is little doubt about the central and paradigmatic nature of education policy within the set of policies of the State of the Goods or, more generally, of the social policies of the State. The simple fact of that educational policy affects citizens directly at the beginning of their life, while other social policies tend to make it more advanced. This, or even at the end of it, results in its centrality, as well as makes the general belief that education is by itself an important determinant of life opportunities.

If the educational policy has adopted as a central objective the equalization of the educational opportunities, we can try to judge it, although, for the sake of brevity, be something summary and, therefore, something superficially contrasting their results around the main fractures or sources of inequality social. I understand that these are, in societies like ours, the dividing marked by citizenship, class, gender, and ethnicity.

About ten years ago we could have left out citizenship to occupy exclusive of class, gender, and ethnicity, either out of a bias of methodological nationalism (forgetting that society goes beyond the State-nation) or by a pragmatic demarcation (consider, without denying. We should limit ourselves to inter-individual inequalities, but intra-events, or simply those on which the political society of which we are part gives us some possibility to intervene). Today, however, turned the United States into a country of immigration, and with inter-territorial cohesion put in question, it is impossible to avoid the problem of citizenship.

On the other hand, it is no less true that if, instead of ten years, we traveled towards the past twenty or thirty, it is likely that our concern for equality in class relations and gender (among the majority culture), because the ethnic women were hidden behind the veil of poverty; and, with three or rather four decades our concerns would have been reduced to the inequalities of class (among males) since gender disappeared or they were naturalized in the private sphere.

It concludes with a set of proposals and specific recommendations on priority areas to be addressed by governments such as constitutional recognition, participation, political representation, access to health, education, and knowledge among others as the main reasons for regretfully leaving everything and migrating north to seek a better quality of life for themselves and the family. As a final reflection, the documentary points out that the paradigm of plurality and cultural diversity is a key day for successful regional integration and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in the globalized world.