El Salvador

It helps children who qualify get safe passage into the U.S. Aside from being a refugee or an asylee, there are other predominant qualifications. Children must be from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras and currently reside there (“In-Country Refugee”). This illustrates a larger level of effort in helping children in the Northern Triangle countries. Politically, Mexico is in a different level of global and governmental…

Immigrants have encountered many hardships. Present day, record number of immigrants arriving from cultures that have little in common.(6) In Tucson, Arizona the preposition 300 approved in 2006, requires students to prove they are citizens or legal residents in the U.S. to qualify for colleges and universities.(2) Despite evidence that comprehensive reform would raise the wage floor for the entire U.S. economy, to the benefit of both immigrant and native worker, states such as Georgia, Alabama,…

I am an Indian-American, forever bound to the hyphen. I grew up in the South Side of Jamaica, Queens, a city that was highly diverse, highly progressive, with a high poverty and incarceration rate. I lived with eight of my family members under one roof. My parents and I shared a bed. When I was five, my life changed. We moved to West Islip, Long Island. A town that was 99% Caucasian, and a $110,000 dollar annual-median income, ranked the second-most expensive place to raise kids in the United…

I grew up in a household filled with Hispanic influences, telenovelas in the evening, rice and bistec for dinner and an old towel on the end of a stick to mop the floor. As a child, I was always extremely proud of my heritage despite being considered a “Gringa” among family and close friends. My interests to be a liaison between Latin America and the rest of the world as a foreign correspondent not only come from familial ties but also a sense of purpose. Just because all Hispanics speak Spanish…

Before taking this sociology class I had never taken the time to think in depth about how cultures are so different. My culture is what I have grown up and become accustomed to throughout my life. But my norm isn’t necessarily somebody else’s norm. I had also never taken the time to look at the norms that happen within my culture and the people that I surround myself with all the time. The term norm, is used by sociologists to describe those expectations that develop out of a group’s values.…

this document was that the Sandinista government was improving considerably. The group reported that ““The government of Nicaragua has in fact prosecuted security agents and soldiers for human rights abuses… something which has not occurred in El Salvador, Guatemala, or any other military-run…

to take equal hardline stands in Latin America during his presidency. During 1979, pro-US dictator in Nicaragua was overthrown, along with leftist rebellions broke out against pro-US regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala. In 1981, Regan administration stepped up military and other aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and contra rebels in Nicaragua. President Regan in 1983, also ordered U.S forces to invade Grenada, code name Operation Urgent Fury in an effort to establish an independent non-Communist…

pastelitos is often made with more lard in its dough and are a bit smaller than the typical empanada. Argentina has the Empanadas Mendocinas which is a baked empanada that contains milk within its dough and is usually filled with beef, egg, and olive. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica share the Empanada de Plátanos. This recipe calls for mashed plantains for the dough with an interchangeable filler. Mexico has the Pastes Pachuqueños, This dish includes a dough made from wheat flour, causing…

The majority of the people seeking asylum are women and children from three of the current countries ranked with the most gang conscription, sexual violence and homicides, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. This is connected to the readings we have discussed in class such as the “Burn Layers, Section 1: Forced Migration: Stories of Violence and Resilience”. We can see from Reyes report and from the films/testimonies shown in CNN that these people…

difficult, dangerous and underpaid. Sweatshops may also violate child labor laws and ignore the minimum wage stablished by law. According to Fair Labor Association around eighteen countries operate sweatshops including Bangladesh, Romania, Costa Rica, El Salvador, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Armenia, Brazil, Haiti, Taiwan, the Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, Mexico, The United States and its territories. About 90% of sweatshop workers are women, who sometimes are…