Response to:

Parag Khanna and Kailash Prasad, “How Coronavirus Could Make People Move,” Politico

Charlotte Arnold, “The Importance of Effective Communication While Working from Home” Platform Magazine

World Economic Forum, “Shutdown of Border Leaves Migrants in Limbo”

• Public health is top of mind, and reason No. 1 why people might be looking to make a move.
• Health care isn’t the only factor that will motivate our next moves. Cost of living is a decisive issue as well
• From 2005 to 2017, there was a 159% increase in remote workers. Technology has allowed people to create their own offices anywhere. Many people enjoy the flexibility that working remotely offers
• There is a learning curve when you transition your work to a virtual platform. The transition may warrant a change in communication channels, but effective communication is just as, if not more, important than ever.
• It is not only the physical health of children that is under attack, but also their mental health. Children living in detention centers and shelters face heightened fear and stress on a daily basis, and many have already faced major traumas in life
• Individuals who have contracted COVID-19 in detention centers are being placed in isolation or quarantine to prevent the spread of illness. This type of confinement of any human being is a form of torture.

These three articles relates to what we are experiencing right now. People is starting to move away from big cities and going into suburbs and more remote places where they feel more safe an secure. Economy is another issue why people is moving away from big cities, it is known that big  cities are an expensive place to live that’s why people are looking into places where they can have a better standard of life that doesn’t cost as much as it does in a regular city. I live and work in New York and I know that living in any city of this magnitude is better expensive, you can’t basically have a good living standards with a single source of income the cost of living in these places is too high, not only that, but cities are very crowded and this make them vulnerable and unsafe as we all notice with the pandemic covid-19.

Covid-19 also caused isolation and remote working to levels we have ever seen. People started to work from home and students started to attend schools from home.  Home became our place to work , to study and to live. We basically have to do everything from home now, which at first was good because you had the freedom to do other things while being home working, but later on it became a problem since we were home our bosses started to send us email at different times of the day and gave us more assignments to do than when we were at the office and it was hard to say no because they knew we were home.

Travel bans eventually stopped migration all over the world, people were forced to stay where they were. This eventually impacted the economy and a lot of businesses specially tourism. United States is a country with a lot of immigrants and most people have relatives in other parts of the world which they usually tend to visit on Holidays, but now with the restrictions all of this is impossible. I have my mother living in another country and this ban restricts me from seeing her and other relatives and like me there is thousands of people wanting to travel and see their love ones.

Eventually covid-19 caused a lot of things that we must learn to live with at least until a vaccine is found and available to everyone.

Questions

How can you tell your boss or employer you are already doing at lot without being seem as lazy?

Will migration, traveling and tourism get back to “normal”?

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The artifact that I chose was the one with the word courage on top. This was taken from the UN refuge agency website I believe. In this artifact we can see that the narrator is trying to bring awareness to what it takes and everything someone endures to later be call a refugee. The narrator later tells the history of a migrant in a sequence of events from beginning to end. Leaving the last sentence open to discussion and putting emphasis on the current situation of a lot of refugees who are now living in camps hoping they can reach the place they were dreaming about. In the picture we can see a woman provably in her late twenties, her face portraits fear, courage, hope, sadness and uncertainty. The face representing thousands of migrants stocked in refuges camps around the world. The illustration doesn’t advocate anything, but the courage it takes to be a refugee and the celebration of being a refugee. However there is not a single illustration or words that tells us what should be done in order to help all those migrants seeking asylum, peace and a new beginning.

What problem is the narrative identifying?

People currently living in camps waiting for an answer on their asylum status.

What is left out of the narrative?

What is being done and what should be done to help the refugees seek their asylum and new life.

Questions

Why doesn’t the UN advocate for a universal law to help refugees around the world?

Are refugees camps good or bad for refugees?

4/5

Response to The Out Crowd by Ira Glass

• Migrants in the Border stations used to waited in USA after applying for asylum until this was approved or denied, but now is different they have to wait in Mexico due to a new law called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).
• This camp didn’t existed before. It has not water supplements, no proper sanitation only 5 toilets  for 2500 people, some pay for clean bathrooms or go to the woods when toilets get full.
• Nurse Ellen Perry created a medical tent to assist people with decease due to poor sanitations conditions. She is also trying to create a clean water source system from the near by river.
• Volunteers always go to the camps to help how they can with food or other supplies.
• The people waiting in the camps are at risk of being kill, rape and kidnap by the Mexican Cartels.
• Mexican authorities don’t want to help people because they don’t want to create a permanent spot they want all these people to leave or move to government shelters.
• United Nations wont step in unless the Mexican Government invites them in, US is donating money, so they can be housed Mexico.
• USCIS Employees in the border are resigning because they don’t feel comfortable doing their job now, they feel that they are hurting the migrants rather than helping them.
• The new MPP is a fear screening process, people don’t want to apply for Asylum because they are being rejected and sent back to their home country where they fear for their life.
• Those migrants who have to wait for a response on their application outside United States are being kidnapped, some are so afraid to stay in Mexico and returning home is even scarier that they get stock between their home country and the US border.
• I have traveled across the world and US by car and plane and there are plenty of countries and states that are desolated, people who migrate are often looking for a better place to live, where they don’t have to fear for their life and where they can provide for their families. Lot of these people come to work hard and do the job nobody else wants to do. I personally believe that there should not be any border or division between nations where are all humans, despite of speaking other languages and believing in other things could co-exist with each other. We should all be look as one nation and move freely in the world without being denied entry to any place. Yes, there are some places that are better than others, but if there where not individualism and divisions of nations and territories we could have a more balance world where immigration would not be a problem.

Should the united states spend his resources in other things the border patrols and walls?

Should the UN step in and help the migrants to seek asylum?

Is the new MPP law discriminatory?

5/5

Response to :

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Social Studies The United States by Scott Forseman

The Movement for Indigenous Peoples Day by  NPR

• A people’s story of the United States by Howard Zinn portraits Christopher Columbus as a selfish and cruel explorer who came to America in the pursuit of gold for his King and Queen. Who promised him “10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with a new title” Page 2.  after searching for gold  and not being able to find any Columbus decided to slave Arawaks (Native Americans) and sell them for a profit. While other Arawaks were force to work continuously searching for gold, many of them died and some were kill and other kill themselves. “In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead” Page 4. in this quote we can see how devastating was the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America. Las Casas in his book number 2 History of the Indies described in details all the wrong doings and how the Arawaks were desperate that didn’t want to suffer no more “7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation. . . . In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work” Page 7. Just by this small facts we can see that whatever happened back then was so horrify.

• On the contrary in the Social Studies the United States by Scott Foresman shows Christopher Columbus as an great explorer whose expedition “would lead to powerful changes for the Americas, Europe, and the entire world” in this book they talk about and “exchange” of movement of people, animals, and plants omitting that fact that Native Americans were “slaved, raped and murdered” in masses. In today’s world all of these are considered a human crime that most historians tend to leave out when the refer to the discovery of America. I understand that back then things were different, but even back then this acts weren’t acts of gratification.

• After years of debates and arguments over Columbus being consider an important historical figure in American History in spite of all the death he caused. The podcast from NPR explains how and why Columbus became a national holiday in United States even though Columbus never even make it to North America. In this podcast they also argued that this holiday should be replaced to Indigenous people’s day instead, lot of Italian-American are against this movement, because they argue that it is part of their history and heritage, however most of people in United States don’t really want to honor a mass killer and some state have already changed this holiday without changing the American history, but instead changing who they honor on this day.

Why did it take people in United States so long to realize that Christopher Columbus was a murderer and that he shouldn’t be honored?

Why Columbus Day federal holiday hasn’t changed in United State, while many other countries in America recognize this day as indigenous people’s day since the 19th Century ?

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