The Farmingville documentary examines the clash between long time residents of a Long Island‚ NY suburban community and Mexican day laborers who move into their neighborhood. The illegal immigrant population has grown to ten percent of the town’s population because of the area’s successful restaurant‚ landscaping‚ and construction industries. Many in Farmington are not happy with the arrival of the immigrants in their community‚ and yet they accept that the day laborers perform the jobs that the
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Over the past few months‚ I have started to pay more attention to the immigration issues that have been going on. In my Participation in Government class‚ we saw a documentary called Farmingville‚ In the documentary the people talked about how they didn’t want these people in their town‚ they didn’t want to walk in fear that these people might target them. Those people! What does that mean I asked myself. As a Salvadorean immigrant who happens to be female and Jewish‚ I knew that they were not
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Farmingville Case Study PT 1 1. Alien in one definition is: “Too different from something to be acceptable or suitable‚” and Illegal in one definition is “Not allowed by the law.” (Mirriam-Webster Dictionary) The words ‘Alien’ and ‘Illegal’ have inherent negative connotations. A person does not need to know the intimate or factual circumstances associated with those words to understand their symbolism. When those words are used to label the social group of undocumented Latino day laborers the inherent
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More than a thousand Mexican workers moved to the suburban town of Farmingville seeking job opportunities in construction‚ landscaping and restaurant industries. The community of Farmingville started getting a rise in tension with the largest influx of Mexican workers. It came to the point where the community of Farmingville became tired and aggravated with the mass number of Mexicans‚ that they confronted with violence to push them out of the
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S Sociological insights are found in different varieties. Deviant families such as “the Wild and Wonderful whites of West Virginia‚” Life with Murder” “Farmingville” are an ideal explain to discuss about this topic. A common idea or explanation can be how these people grew up in economic style life or how these people mental issues. Deviant form grows up from aggressive lives‚ or can be changed from social or internal issues that relates to their families. No matter the situation there are always
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ Ida B. Wells Barnett and the Fight for Fairness and Equality for Undocumented Immigrants Kristin Fine The women founders of sociological theory made it possible for women and members of other marginalized communities to gain access to the rights and privileges their white male counterparts enjoyed for centuries. In particular‚ the incredible lives of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ida B. Wells-Barnett allowed new avenues of academia and social change that had not previously
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Mexico is a country that has long been in a struggle to find a concrete national identity. This struggle transcends the boundary of gender identities as well. This is the precise issue in which Matthew C. Gutmann addresses in his book The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. In his book‚ Gutmann dispels the macho generalization that has been applied to all Mexican men‚ as a result of their struggle for an identity. The thesis of his book is that the terms macho and machismo‚ no longer
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Lesson Plan: Examine Labor Practices in the Garment Industry OVERVIEW: This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the film Made in L.A.‚ a film that follows the struggle of three Latina immigrants working for fair labor conditions in Los Angeles’s garment factories. Note: This film has bilingual subtitles throughout and is fully accessible to English and Spanish speakers. This lesson compares current conditions in the garment industry with those at the turn of the 20th century.
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