In the New York Times article “The Great Climate Migration” by Abrahm Lustgarten was about how the climate will affect the people migrating into the U.S in the future by using data. The model being used in the article can predict the amount of migrants coming from Central America, birthrates, and the possibility of poverty […]
Migration Stories in Art & Music
The two songs “American Land” by Bruce Springsteen and “Follow Me” by Moxie Raia and Wyclef share similarities, but both songs also have their differences. The similarities the songs share is that they do have a connection to immigrants migrating, the songs express the possibilities of what an immigrant could go through, and the songs […]
Migration, Family, Home, Belonging
After thinking about my family’s migration history, both my father and mother who are from the Dominican Republic have completely different perspectives coming to the U.S. Moreover, my mother was able to come the U.S legally by getting married (before she officially met my father) to get papers and my father came to the U.S […]
Communicating about Immigration Enforcement
The two videos consisted of a film on Netflix called “Immigration Nation” and a short 2-minute video from a website called “ledger-enquirer.com”. The film and the short video both share differences and similarities in which how they depict ICE to be through their production. The similarities the videos show are ICE officers carrying out their […]
Communicating Migration During COVID-19
In the year 2020, COVID-19 had made drastic changes in people’s lives all over the world. For instance, these changes might include how it impacted a person’s employment/work situation, social life, and people’s migration patterns. With these changes that are going on, people are less interactive with each other besides the fact that there are […]
Artifacts Related To Migration
Examples of a recent artifact related to migration The muslim ban Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Donald Trump’s immigration policies The problem the artifact is identifying that immigration seems to be an issue in the United States which needs to be resolved. The main characters in the narrative are immigrants in the U.S who […]
This American Life Podcast “The Out Crowd” Notes
The Parts of the podcast that stood out the most: There are thousands of people by the Mexican and The United States border living in a camp. A family of 3 (a husband, wife, and their daughter) were kidnapped for 15 days in a city called Reynosa, Mexico. The wife was sexually assaulted by a […]
About My Header Image
The image I chose is from a website called “unhcr.org”. I chose this image because I think it can give an idea of how humans could migrate. Based on what the image shows, people traveling in a group on foot with things to carry and looking for a place to settle is what I think […]