Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

Undocumented Workers
- Undocumented women filll our lowest paying jobs and go through so much hard labor to get the food we eat today.
- There are is about 4.1 million undocumented women in the U.S. today. In addition, 4 million U.S.-born children.

Farmworkers
- The U.S Department of Labor states that farmworkers suffer from higher rates of toxic chemical injuries and skin disorders than any other workers in the country.
- The children immagrant farmworkers have higher rates of pesticide exposure than the general public.

Poultry Workers
- Almost a quarter of the workers that butcher and process meat, poultry and fish are undocumented.
- Out of 174 chicken factories in the major U.S are latino and more than half are women.

Sexual Abuse on the Job
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discovered that hundreds if not thousands of women had to have sex with supervisors to get or keep jobs and/or put up with a constant barrage of grabbing and touching and propositions for sex by supervisors
- It showed in an article in Florida of 1989 that sexual harrasment was so bad that the women would refer to fields in California as "The Green Motel" and "Fil de Calzon" ("Fields of Panties")

 

Immigration & Nativism

           4 QUESTIONS
1. What is nativism?
-Refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants
2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
-Religion and labor
3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
- Nothing Party and the Ku Klux Klan"kkk"
4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
-Tighter immagration laws
           DEFINITIONS
Migrate- Move from one region to another

Migration- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

Immigration- The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Under the Same Moon

1. What countries did they come from? Mainly they came from Italy and Irland. Also they were coming from Europe.
2. Why did they come to America? They came to amrecia for a better life. Also they came because it is the land of the free.

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN. They weren't welcomed to amercia. They would start problems over who came first to amercia.
4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing? They started to look for a job and they would live in basements. They would work for slauter houses and the girls would work on sewing bottons on shirts and sweaters.

Jewish Resistance

1.) Hitler would cut off the jews tounges so they dont talk or scream while being tortured.
2.) He put them in a camp that would have a electrical fence all around it.

This paragraph is talking about how hitler would treat the jews and how the jews would have to live. The jews would always try to escape but would get caught and tortured. There was this one group of people who escaped and they formed a group that got bigger and then they ended up haveing a spritural resisitace. They didnt care that the place were they live was distroyed by the nazis.

One Thousand Children

          During the holocaust many deaths and how out of thousands of jews wents to a hundred of jews were saved and the narrator talks about why he talks about it he was a survivor as well the holocaust happened duringg the 1940's .Over half a century, and describe how a group of dedicated individuals, and later organizations, rose to the threat of Nazism, faced American immigration laws and child-settlement bureaucratic limitations, and took upon themselves the challenge of saving hundreds of children from discrimination and possible death.

         This story is in the first part of spring in the year of 1933, only after a few weeks after Hitler came into power, when the particularly touching plight of Jewish children in Nazi Germany moved several American Jewish organizations to suggest various means of assistance. In the middle of that year, the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist-Oriented organization connected with the World Jewish Congress, adopted a resolution expressing the hope that some 40,000 German-Jewish children would be cared for by private families throughout the world. A considerable number of these children were expected to reach the United States.

Holocaust Overview

Ms. S check my edmodo because it doesnt let me publish it here.

Kite Running

1. What is kite running? What are the roles of each person called? What do they do?
 a sport they have in afghanistan, they are vivtimsof the russians, they move to america to start a new life and they are not as wealthy as before.
2. What is the history of kite running in Afghanistan? How long? Importance?
it is important becuase they admire those who win
3. Kite running was not allowed during Taliban rule. Why do you think this is?
if you were caught with a kite, many times you would be beaten and the spool
would be destroyed
4. What signifance does kite running play in the movie, The Kite Runner? What does it help teach us about the characters? It represents freedom for the kids thats why the taliban thought of it as a bad thing.

Week 5 Grades

39% I am not  saticfied about my grade. I got this grade because i didnt turn in my url for this blog. I have 7 missing assignments. I am going to turn in my url for this blog. Im going to do all my work. I will do good on my tests.

Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
A Sunni Muslim movement dominated by people with Pashtun ethnic identity

2. During what time did they control Afghanistan?
1996 to 2001

3. What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
911 when they crashed the twin towers

4. What was the set of laws called that the Taliban regime used? List two prohobitions they had (things they people weren't allowed to eat/drink/etc.
Cant shave there beards and can't listen to music

5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
91

6. In 1-2 sentences, describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule
They were treated different then the men.

Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan

1) What percentage of the population do Pashtuns and Hazaras make up in Afghanistan?
45% and 8%
2) Where do Pashtuns mainly live? What language do they speak?
Pashtu and live in Kabul
3) Where do Hazaras mainly live? What language do they speak?
Farsi and live in dry mountains
4) What effect did the Soviet Invasion of 1979 have on the Pashtun/Hazara ethnic groups?
December 1979 has been the major determining factor in Afghanistan's ethnic relations since that point in time
5) From what you read, why is there a conflict between Amir and Hassan? How does what you learned explained their relationship?
They are best friends and there ethnic group are different