Immigration Work Reflection Paper

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Being part of the Labor and Work studies class made me realize of what I and our people are capable of doing. Especially now in a time where our family and friends are being oppressed by media, culture and politics we have to work and unite together with other people who are also oppressed and treated negatively due to their race, culture, and language. Being in this course for the past two-quarters I have seen not only myself but also my peers grow as a team. We have come up with new ideas that will hopefully create the story we want others to capture both the negative and the positives of being either an immigrant ourselves or our families. For many of us who are used to the quarter system, we are usually done within the ten weeks we have. After that, we never go back to our previous classes and see the progress or new projects the …show more content…
For this class the title being called Immigration Rights, brought my attention due to myself being an immigrant I wanted to see how a class would talk and focus on this topic. The first quarter I was very excited to see that there were other types of people; race and culture wise. …show more content…
Learning with my peers was easier than feeling alone in the process and we were able to talk to each other and work together to learn the process. After finishing my assignments in transcribing and “coding” it was nice to see that I was able to do a complete process of preliminary interview, interview, transcribing and coding. Before this class I was not exposed to transcribing, coding or learning the process of how museums is built. Also, having worked with our group leader in the previous quarter it was much easier to approach to when we or I had any questions or concerns of the applications we were working on and

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