America's Ethnicity History

Bay Area immigrants are on their toes after Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf warned her community about a Bay Area wide ICE sweep , which she heard from multiple sources and not official channels.   Schaaf believes her announcement was an “ethical obligation”   and her duty despite the possibility of increased fear. She wants to protect these people and have them "prepared but not in panic." “This is an opportunity for people to learn their rights and responsibilities,” she said, adding that there are “strict protocols” in the Oakland's public schools, and that   “police officers are ‘prohibited’ from participating in ICE enforcement, and that state law limits business owners in assisting ICE.”   This, according to the article, is why there are now rising tensions between federal and local authorities because   of our state's “limited cooperation with deportation efforts.” There was at least one ICE detainee in Napa, as well as   depor...

"For over 30 years, the Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton Area has existed for just one reason: to welcome newcomers from around the world, and help them become a valued member of the Canadian family" (http://magma-amgm.org/site/index.php/about-us) Canadian social service organization The Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton Area (MAGMA) settlement counselor Sharla Goodwin is continuously welcoming newcomers/immigrants and helping them adjust to their new life.   In Canadian province New Brunswick, Goodwin says she has over 20 clients from the Philippines, including Filipino father of 3 Val Lagumbay, who works for heating and ventilation company Imperial Manufacturing Group. The company encouraged him, as well as the rest of its immigrant employees, to bring his family and “settle in the community.” Lagumbay, who moved to Canada for the future of his kids, expresses how accepting   the community has been to him and his family, an...

Lisa See, author of “Shangai Girls,” shares a short story of how a young Chinese boy, and his father, was being treated differently by his grandfather compared to the rest of their family.   It turns out, the young boy’s father was a paper son and those he thought were his relatives weren’t actually related to him at all. See said that when she was in her early 30's, she also found out that some of her uncles weren’t really her uncles. She says that while some families are more open about being paper sons, some are very secretive about it.   See’s great grandfather, a a legitimate Chinese merchant, said that many paid him to be listed as his [paper] partners, aka fake merchants, in the paperwork he was required to show the government every 6 months.   After discussing the definition, process, origin of paper sons, which we learned in class,   Lee said the paper son legacy still continued after the overturn of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The   US govern...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Conditions-worsen-for-some-ICE-detainees-at-12346066.php NDNU Alternative Spring Break 2017- Visiting the West County Detention Center ICE and the Contra Costa County have a “$6 million-a-year contract” to run the Richmond federal detention center with some 800 male and female ICE detainees for the feds. These inmates are being “treated poorly because of their immigration status,” according to a letter signed by 27 women immigrant inmates for Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement, or CIVIC, a San Francisco group that monitors jails where immigrants are detained. This letter includes stories saying that these women do not have access to classroom learning materials, unlike nonimmigrant inmates. They are required to stay in their cell all day despite the doors being unlocked. They are also sometimes denied access to the restroom, unlike their non immigrant inmates, and are told to wait up to 23 hours to use...

     Hello everyone! For this week, I decided to do things a little different and chose a short excerpt from Kathryn Sorrell’s Re-imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization, a reading from one of my Sociology classes last semester. I am reflecting on scenario five in the pictures attached below.      After telling a story of how the Italian parent's of a Filipina-American's boyfriend thought she was a "maid" instead of the girlfriend of their son when first introduced to each other, Sorrells quotes that these relations of power "are deeply rooted in colonial histories and discourses and yet, are re-configured and re-articulated in the context of globalization" (p 176).      She also elaborated on how cultural subjects and cultural objects "coalesce and collide in unprecedented ways..." forming "alliance[s] as well as tensions.. and conflicts" (p 176).      I have discussed this with one o...

Trump says some immigrants from 'shithole countries' as he rejects bipartisan deal This article discusses how Trump rejected a bipartisan deal to protect immigrants from countries like El Salvador, Haiti, and other African countries, and how he responded saying “Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?"   He even insisted that we bring in more people from countries like Norway. Personally, it is really depressing seeing our president make remarks so degrading as this, and how he is so quick to generalize people from other countries, as if immigrants from these countries are not real human beings who work hard everyday to create better lives for themselves, their families, and for this country. His remark about bringing in more people from Norway and not from other countries is just racist in my opinion, and he disregards the sad reasons why people from countries like El Salvador and Haiti are being PUSHED out of their homeland...