Response to 

“Chef’s Table: Christina Martinez” (available on Netflix)

“The Immigrant Income Gap“, Harvard Business Review

“Immigrating While Queer” The Public Radio’s Podcast (20 min)

“Undocumented and Black in America” Define American 

The Netflix the documentary “Chef’s Table: Christina Martinez” talks about an illegal immigrant from Mexico that was able to success and created a restaurant business in Philadelphia. Despite her success and  being married to an American citizen, she was denied to get a green card and fix her immigration status, just because she entered the country running through the desserts of Mexico and US. After her business started to catch attention in the community, her restaurant was voted as one of the best restaurant in the area which gave the business a boost and eventually she got famous for her restaurant and started to get invited to radios, tv show and all sorts of media. She took advantage of this fame and started to tell her story and advocate for immigrants who are facing or faced similar struggles like she did in order to find her place in this new country.

The immigrant income gap is a research conducted in Canada to determine whether first, second or third generation immigrants are pay equally or if there is a difference between generation, in this research they also include race and language spoken at homer and work. The results were as expected 1st generation of immigrants tends to get pay much less than the next generations, but what they also found is that if you are white and a man you can get pay more than any other person with the same level of education and doing the same job.

The podcast “Immigrating While Queer” is very interesting because it shows different issues an young immigrant can encounter when the families decides to migrate to another country. Like not speaking the language, social distancing, emotional distress and others. Sam was a child when she came to US with get mother and had to overcome her fears of being “different”, beside this she quickly adapted herself to the country and learned the language by watching Netflix, she eventually when to school and land a career in IT.  but the most interested part was  that when she was a teenager she decided to tell her mother she was gay which caused some tension between them, but at the end her mother accepted her as she is.   

“Undocumented and Black in America” is a short video were a group of African descendant are talking about being black and immigrant. They said this is something people don’t usually realize, but is difficult for them to also adapt and play a role within the society 

Question 

Do you think equal pay should be a federal right?

Do you think illegal immigrants should be granted a green card and/or permanent residency if they are contributing to the country and US economic ?

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