Essay On Enrique's Journey
businesses that do not have headquarters in any part of the global south, just the global north which would be the countries listed above. Due to Honduras being in the global south the amount of jobs offered are slim and the pay is even less. Lourdes knows the difference between the United States and Honduras and realizes that Tegucigalpa is not beneficial for her family anymore. “The availability of cheap labour, resources, and favourable production conditions in the global south has enhanced corporate mobility and profitability” (Steger, 50). The owners knowing this will be able to make a higher profit because they do not have to pay their workers as much. As Lourdes leaves, Enrique is forced to move to a place that is even worse than he
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He has tried multiple times to make it to his mother on his six time he was caught and deported as well as his seventh time. His eighth time around was a long journey nonetheless. Enrique had started out knowing what different types of obstacles he would endure. There were bandits and police that either arrested you or stripped you of your belongings. Enrique’s job was to get on the trains to get him to the right place. Enrique would see horrible things on the trains like migrants that do not have some limbs anymore because of hopping on and off. Enrique went through Mexico City and Chiapas which were bad towns. They all have many different types of punishments when going into these towns. There is one town Enrique and many migrants took fond of. Vera Cruz was a friendly giving town. No matter how little the people of the town had they still packed up bags and made food for the migrants traveling. This gave Enrique hope to keep pushing on. Even though the punishments to help the migrants were strong the churches and priests still wanted to contribute. “Those on the margins, people who stand at the edges of communities in need of care that they often do not receive because they are so easily overlooked” (Foster). The church had disobeyed this. The migrants did not directly ask for anything but the people of the church wanted to help anyways even though cops did not approve of their
He has tried multiple times to make it to his mother on his six time he was caught and deported as well as his seventh time. His eighth time around was a long journey nonetheless. Enrique had started out knowing what different types of obstacles he would endure. There were bandits and police that either arrested you or stripped you of your belongings. Enrique’s job was to get on the trains to get him to the right place. Enrique would see horrible things on the trains like migrants that do not have some limbs anymore because of hopping on and off. Enrique went through Mexico City and Chiapas which were bad towns. They all have many different types of punishments when going into these towns. There is one town Enrique and many migrants took fond of. Vera Cruz was a friendly giving town. No matter how little the people of the town had they still packed up bags and made food for the migrants traveling. This gave Enrique hope to keep pushing on. Even though the punishments to help the migrants were strong the churches and priests still wanted to contribute. “Those on the margins, people who stand at the edges of communities in need of care that they often do not receive because they are so easily overlooked” (Foster). The church had disobeyed this. The migrants did not directly ask for anything but the people of the church wanted to help anyways even though cops did not approve of their