A.) Rapport/ Pg. 132: A feeling of trust between researchers and the people they are studying.
The buildup of positive rapport between the people who were trying to escape to the United States, and the researchers and camera crews was a very important aspect of this documentary. The immigrants were in many cases trusting their future and their lives to the respondents. The path that the illegals were following was in many cases frequently used and worn down. The constant travel of the illegals near the river had vegetation stomped down to almost visible roads leading the Border Control straight to the most used paths. The way that the illegals allowed the documentary team follow them step by step thru their entire journey proved to me that they had genuine trust in them. The illegals were ultimately risking their lives to leave the country that they had come from in hopes to making it to the United States. Having the …show more content…
Values underlie our preferences, guide our choices, and indicates what we hold worthwhile in life. In the documentary Wetback, the illegals were no different. They valued family structure, their work ethic, but overall; their main motivator simply not starving to death. They realized that if they did not try and immigrate to the United States their lives, along with their children and families, were going to be spent poor and hungry. Food is a necessity of life, and their home countries were simply not able to provide them with that. The immigrants were willing to give up everything they had known their entire life, along with their citizen ship in hopes of becoming and undocumented illegal immigrant in the United States. The path that they would need to follow to get to the United States has some many obstacles and dangers, many lives are lost along the way. With so many uncertainties during their travels you can definitely see what the immigrants’
The buildup of positive rapport between the people who were trying to escape to the United States, and the researchers and camera crews was a very important aspect of this documentary. The immigrants were in many cases trusting their future and their lives to the respondents. The path that the illegals were following was in many cases frequently used and worn down. The constant travel of the illegals near the river had vegetation stomped down to almost visible roads leading the Border Control straight to the most used paths. The way that the illegals allowed the documentary team follow them step by step thru their entire journey proved to me that they had genuine trust in them. The illegals were ultimately risking their lives to leave the country that they had come from in hopes to making it to the United States. Having the …show more content…
Values underlie our preferences, guide our choices, and indicates what we hold worthwhile in life. In the documentary Wetback, the illegals were no different. They valued family structure, their work ethic, but overall; their main motivator simply not starving to death. They realized that if they did not try and immigrate to the United States their lives, along with their children and families, were going to be spent poor and hungry. Food is a necessity of life, and their home countries were simply not able to provide them with that. The immigrants were willing to give up everything they had known their entire life, along with their citizen ship in hopes of becoming and undocumented illegal immigrant in the United States. The path that they would need to follow to get to the United States has some many obstacles and dangers, many lives are lost along the way. With so many uncertainties during their travels you can definitely see what the immigrants’