Employment Migration, The Gonzales' Story, Chapter 3: Migration
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Comic Procedure and Information
1. Scenario: Employment Migration (Legal)
2. Story: Maria's story (Lourdes Gonzales’ story)
3/4. Outline/Essential details:
- Started to think about moving for better job opportunities
- Father lost job and idea to move to the US for better employment opportunities-acted as a pull factor
- Contacted friend about move to Colorado from Peru
- Mother applied for work visa instead of father because it is easier to get a work visa for being a Spanish teacher
- Government called mother to come for a week for an interview for work at schools
- Got the job at the school
- After one week, mother comes back and whole family moves in 2005
- Living in the united states with a work visa (renew every 3 years)
- After 7 years, family receives a green card
- Cyclic movement (When Maria's mother came to the U.S. for a week, then returned to Peru)
- Periodic movement (When Maria's father came to America for a year, then moved back to Peru for work a year later)
- International migration (When Maria's family moved across borders from Peru to U.S.)
- Voluntary migration (Maria's family moved because of better economic opportunities in America)
- Pull factors (The pull factor of better job opportunities brought the family to America)
- Chain migration (Friends of the family in Colorado that migrated earlier influenced the destination of the family's move to Colorado)
5. List of images:
- women filling out paperwork
- airport/ plane/ suitcase picture
- women in interviews
- elementary school pictures
- women on phone call picture
- family moving out
- family on plane
- family moving in
- waiting pictures? idk to show like time we waited for the green card
- a work visa
- green card picture
7. Script:
1st Panel (introduction): "In 2004, there was a family living in Peru, Maria's family… All born and raised in the city of Lima, Peru..."
2nd Panel: Picture of two people talking "The parents started looking at the option of moving to the USA in a year". Dialogue (Father): "Why don't we move to America?"
3rd Panel: Picture of mother on phone "Maria's mother, Lourdes, knew of friends who went through the same process of migrating to America and decided to give them a call." Dialogue (Mother): "Do you miss your family?" "How is everything going in Colorado?" "What is it like working there?"
4th Panel: Picture of father losing job "It so happens that a little while later Maria's father, Gonzalo, lost his job. This later became a push factor to migrate" "Although this was unfortunate this was exactly the kind of push the family needed to migrate, also known as a pull factor"
5th Panel: Picture of a plane taking off "After thinking about the push and pull factors, Maria's mother decided to fly out to the USA for a week..."
6th Panel: Picture of interview with mother "During the week, Lourdes attended many interviews for a teaching position in Spanish". Dialogue (interviewer): "So tell me about your teaching experience"
7th Panel: Picture of Denver to Lima "At the end of the week, Lourdes return home. This short trip was an example of cyclic movement"
8th Panel: Picture of mother on phone "When Lourdes came home, they were planning to move in a year. The job called her back sooner than expected…". Dialogue (interviewer): "You got the job!" (Mother): "Wow, so soon...?"
9th Panel: Picture of family packing boxes "As soon as they heard the news, the family packed up, said goodbye to family and friends, and moved away."
10th Panel: Picture of parents waving goodbye
11th Panel: Picture of family waiting in the airport
12th Panel: Picture of mother's work visa "Since Lourdes got offered a job, the family, first stayed legally in the USA with a work visa."
13th Panel: Picture of kids with father "Since the family was there a legally under the work visa of the mother,Lourdes, the father can work until the family received a green card." "For this reason, Maria's dad, Gonzalo, after living a full year in Colorado, thought it was better to return to Peru because it was hard on him and the family to not be able to work"
14th Panel: Picture of two people holding hands "Even though at times Lourdes thought it difficult to stay, especially as a single mother in America, she knew it was for the better of her children."
15th Panel: Picture saying time to renew "For three years, the family had to renew the work visa every year, and after those three years, they renewed the visas once more.
16th Panel: Picture of people waiting in a long line "Finally after being in the process of renewing in waiting for six years, the family enter the process and got the green card."
17th Panel: Picture of mother's green card
18th Panel: Picture of an American passport "Currently a family has to wait less than three years to be able to apply for American Citizenship"
19th Panel: "When people migrate to different places, it can be for many different reasons. There can be many different push or pull factors. In Maria’s family’s case there was the push factor of her father losing his job. This also created a pull factor for the family come to the United States because they thought that there might be better job opportunities. Although there was a push factor, the migration of Maria’s family was an example of voluntary migration. When Maria’s mother came to the United States to interview for jobs, it was an example of cyclical movement because she came for a short period of time and then returned to Peru. When the family moved from Peru to the United States, it was an example of International migration. Once the family moved to the United States, Maria’s father only stayed for a year. Her father’s migration was an example of periodic movement. When people migrate to different places, there is usually a very large culture shock, which can be very hard, but usually when families or individuals migrate, it is for a good reason that benefits outweigh the negatives."
20th Panel (Conclusion): Pictures of Peru and Colorado Flag "“Although it was a hard and long process, looking back on it now, moving to america was worth it. I was always happy with my decision but it was hard to adapt to the new culture, and especially the language. There was definitely big culture shock. I can admit that there were moments when I wanted to go back and live close to family but i always remembered why we moved in the first place. And the main reason was to give my children better futures.” - Lourdes Gonzales"
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Chapter 3 Map & Statement
Trevor Jones
10/25/15
Sources:
After Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, a steady stream of Cuban refugees migrated to America because they wanted to avoid capitalism, but too many Cubans wanted admission to the U.S. for traditional immigration pathways to handle, so the first Cuban "boatlift" sailed the refugees 90 miles from Camarioca to the coast of Florida. Then, in order for the United States to control the massive influx of Syrian refugees, the government established the current "wet-foot, dry-foot policy", saying that Cubans caught in the water will be sent back, but those caught on the shore may stay and work in the U.S.
Map:
The map shown above is a map of the far western portion of the Middle East. The reason that I colored this map is because it contains Syria, but more specifically, all of the countries involved in the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, a total estimated number of 9 million Syrians have fled from their homes and taken refuge on the countries bordering Syria, or within other parts of Syria. According to The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 3 million Syrians have fled to countries neighboring Syria such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. Over 6.5 million refugees are internally displaced within Syria, with an estimated 150,000 more declaring asylum in the European Union. Absorbing the influx of Syrian refugees has been an enormous problem for countries neighboring Syria, with serious consequences on the stability of the entire region.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Thoughts and Ruminations on: Chapter 2 - Population
Trevor Jones
* Map of areas that have been used in my geography coloring book for thoughts and ruminations maps.
10/5/15
Articles:
Human Geography: People, Places and Culture: Chapter 2 - Population
The Population Surprise - by Max Singer
The Population Sizzle - by Anne H. Ehrlich
The U.S. Economy's Big Baby Problem - by Derek Thompson
In the 1960, The Chinese government, but more specifically Mao Zedong, wanted married couples to have as many children as possible, which lead to a boom in fertility rate, and almost doubled the size of the population in China. But, with an already high and continually increasing population, China began to encounter problems in the economy, so the one-child policy was put into place, which would allow the Chinese government to drop the population to a desired number of 700 Million citizens. Then, the policy was relaxed in 2013 when the population arrived at an idea number for the landscape, and couples were allowed to have two children if they so wished.
How does global demography determine when our planet reaches its stationary population level?
In 2040, according to Anne H. Ehrlich's The Population Fizzle, the world's population growth is predicted to greatly slow down after it hits 8 million inhabitants, and level out completely in 2100 when it reaches 10 million. Of course, our planet is composed of 196 individual countries, or states, as geographers generally refer to them, so naturally, these states are in very different developmental stages. Some are even predicted to reach the ideal, zero net population growth, or stationary population level, in the next few decades, while other countries are only just beginning to develop. Simply, while some countries are developing and have a higher crude birth rate than crude death rate, a term known as natural increase without emigration or immigration (which is an unrealistic idea), other countries will have a higher crude death rate than crude birth rate, or even a stationary population level, which allows for a global zero net population growth. This in mind, the obvious question is what factors contribute to this rise or fall in population which ultimately contributes to this stationary population level?
We face many problems across the planet, some of which include: unequal population distribution, epidemics or pandemics, growing dependency ratios, and many other like the ones that I've mentioned here, all contributing to the planet's population level. As I have mentioned before though, all countries are in a different part of what we now call, the demographic transition model, a model that basically explains the phases of a country's developmental journey. In Max Singer's The Population Surprise, each of these phases are described in great detail, giving the attributed and contributing factors of each one, the first phase, being the developing phase. In developing countries, many of which are in Subsaharan Africa as well as the Middle East, there is a very high natural increase in population, due to high crude death rates, and even higher crude birth rates. This is because of multiple factors, one being a high total fertility rate in the country. As a country forms, the main roles of women is to stay at home and take care of the kids, this and the lack of family planning and mother's index, leaves mothers uneducated about proper birth control. Also, many government's of developing countries put into place a expansive population policy, which encourages mothers to have as many kids as possible. There are also many different ways that a developing country can decrease their population level, the most common being an endemic or an epidemic. Due to poor sanitation and a high population density, or many people living in close proximity, it is easy for an infectious disease to spread across a state, one such as Ebola. This disease can kill thousands, or even millions in extreme cases, and is the leading cause of deaths in developing countries.
The next three phases are commonly blended together into one phase: rapid growth followed by slowed expansion and modernization phase. In the United States for example, this phase was marked by the industrial revolution, where sanitation and medical technology were greatly improved. This lead to the population explosion beginning in 1820, and the Baby Boom in the U.S., which was documented in Derek Thompson's The U.S. Economy's Big Baby Problem. As Thompson describes in his writing, birth rates naturally decline with economic development for many reasons such as the education of women and their presence in the work force, as well as when children become financially unproductive in a society, rather than an economic commodity. This is the demographic phase that the United States currently resides in, along with many other developed countries on the planet. The fifth and final phase is the ideal phase for a country, known as the theoretical phase. Very few countries reside in this phase, if any, but for a country to be in this phase or development, the crude birth rate and crude death rate must even out, making a zero net population growth, or the ideal 'stationary population level'. The stationary population level globally is modeled to reach 10 million people in 2100, when all of the planet's nations reach the theoretical phase. All in all, there are many demographic features that play into when a country reaches its stationary population level, and it is only a matter of time before the planet reaches its.
This is a map of Northern Africa that I chose to color because it contains the country Niger. This country, named after the Niger River is the largest nation in Africa, covering 1,270,000 square kilometers, 80% of which is covered by the Sahara Desert. However, this country also has the current highest fertility rate in the world at 6.89. This is mostly because it is a developing country that faces the struggles of its desert terrain, overpopulation, poor education and sanitation, as well as its lack of infrastructure. All of these factors contribute to Niger's shockingly high fertility rate.
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