Understanding Your Assignment
Before you begin looking for information you should make sure you understand your assignment. Some good questions are:
Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.
Breaking Down The Research Process
The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.
In Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway we read about how the struggles of those who want to come here to live the American dream can end in tragic results and why they would want to come here.
We have also studied the challenges being faced by undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. under the past and current U.S. administrations, and the role of U.S. foreign policy in creating the conditions in the home countries where many of these immigrants came from.
We have also studied the history of racism and xenophobia in creating what Holtzman and Sharpe argue is, ”our history, [where] there have been an untold number of assaults on the humanness of people of color in the interest of white hegemony”(638).
Finally, we have heard from our peers concerning their own experiences with immigrant groups.
Take all of the things you have learned in this chapter into consideration to answer the following prompt:
Research the current U.S. system for immigration including:
And make an argument for or against whether the risk the Yuma 14 (including their coyote) took in crossing the desert was worth the benefits of living in the US, had they survived their journey.
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