Amreeka Immigration
In addition, Amreeka addressed another, in reality very controversial topic of even today being disconnect between immigrants and health care insurance. It is a known thing that most immigrants do not have any sort of health care insurance for them, or their children. This being backed up in the movie when Muna fell at work, injuring herself but not being able to go to the hospital because she did not any kind of health care insurance ( Amreeka 1:13:57 ). While some immigrants resist to get a health care insurance because of their undocumented fears, others simply lack the knowledge on the importance of having a health care plan in the United States. This disconnect, also may arise from language barriers. As told in Immigration, Acculturation,
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The land that these immigrants are coming from is universally known as most dangerous and opposed to the United States. When dating all the way back to the 9/11 tragedy and ever since, peoples of all the Arab heritages have had the same negative stigma and stereotype following them around globally. While yes, terrorist and all of the brutal attacks that have been performed by them were identified with Arabic descent people, not all Arabic peoples are terrorist themselves. Instead, most of these Arabic people are political and religious slaves to their own countries and their terrorism tactic aspiring governments. These same people who were, and still are being forced out of their homelands due to political and religious disputes and almost aspiring genocides, these “Arab immigrants soon found out that the land of opportunity was also strewn with hardship and an ‘unwelcome’ mat” ( Suleiman 504 ). This universally default and used, misunderstood, and inhumane stereotype of all Arab people being of terrorist nature, was persisted and reemphasized throughout the entire movie though multiple, most Arabic racist scene examples. The first example that set up this negative stereotyping, and instantly classifying tone for the rest of the movie, was the scene where Muna and Fadi get held up at immigration lock up for about three hours for questioning. This questioning ranged from them carrying prohibited products, to drugs, to weapons ( Amreeka ). Although it was obvious that a middle-aged mother, and her adolescent son were not posing an endangerment to anyone, they still had to go through that entire procedure because of their Arabic ethnicity. Another, very prejudice and stereotyping scene was when Muna went to a job interview, and instead of going through that interview, the boss
The land that these immigrants are coming from is universally known as most dangerous and opposed to the United States. When dating all the way back to the 9/11 tragedy and ever since, peoples of all the Arab heritages have had the same negative stigma and stereotype following them around globally. While yes, terrorist and all of the brutal attacks that have been performed by them were identified with Arabic descent people, not all Arabic peoples are terrorist themselves. Instead, most of these Arabic people are political and religious slaves to their own countries and their terrorism tactic aspiring governments. These same people who were, and still are being forced out of their homelands due to political and religious disputes and almost aspiring genocides, these “Arab immigrants soon found out that the land of opportunity was also strewn with hardship and an ‘unwelcome’ mat” ( Suleiman 504 ). This universally default and used, misunderstood, and inhumane stereotype of all Arab people being of terrorist nature, was persisted and reemphasized throughout the entire movie though multiple, most Arabic racist scene examples. The first example that set up this negative stereotyping, and instantly classifying tone for the rest of the movie, was the scene where Muna and Fadi get held up at immigration lock up for about three hours for questioning. This questioning ranged from them carrying prohibited products, to drugs, to weapons ( Amreeka ). Although it was obvious that a middle-aged mother, and her adolescent son were not posing an endangerment to anyone, they still had to go through that entire procedure because of their Arabic ethnicity. Another, very prejudice and stereotyping scene was when Muna went to a job interview, and instead of going through that interview, the boss