Brief Summary: The Suffering Of Triqui People

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Many people migrate every day to get away from harsh, cruel, and unsanitary environments. Majority of them have a choice to either flee or escape to different environment, however, the Triqui people was not offered an option to stay or go. They were targeted and look upon differently because they brought lots of violence and ruckus. Therefore, because of their actions they were forced to leave the land and forced by global markets to migrate to an area that was less hospitable. After being disrespected and left to fend for themselves in Mexico, the Triqui people received an identical treatment in the United States. The violent actions that the Triqui portrayed were looked as a kind of mimesis, a sort of imitation. However, in other words the same violent actions that Triqui showed to society was once the same treatment they got on numerous
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The actions of the Triqui people were parallel to the Mexican military and the unequal global market. The Triqui people saw the Mexican government as a very cruel and unequal market that would not show them equality. The Triqui people saw that violence was the way to retaliate to an unequal Mexican military for equal rights. The …show more content…
The political violence of land wars has pushed them to live in inhospitable climate without easy access to water for crops. The structural violence of global neoliberal capitalism forces them to leave home and family members, suffer though a long and deadly desert border crossing, and search for a means to survive in a new land. The structural violence of labor hierarchies in the United States organized around ethnicity and citizenship positions them at the bottom, with the most dangerous and backbreaking occupations and the worst accommodations. Due to their location at the bottom of the pecking order, the undocumented Triqui migrant workers endure disproportionate injury and

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