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Spaces and exchanges



Introduction :



I am going to present you the notion of spaces and exchanges. In the first place we are going to define the terms of spaces and exchanges. A space refers to the first geographical space, to a place it can be a city, a region, a country, a continent but it can be also a space historical, cultural, economic, political, etc. An exchange is the fact of giving a thing and of receiving other one on the other hand. Nowadays the exchanges can be take different forms for example the human and economic exchanges, of information, cultural, etc. We go to speak about the emigration in particular between Mexico and USA that is a topic that illustrates the notion because they are exchanges between the populations, of different spaces.

In the first one we are going to speak conditions and reasons why the migrants cross the border, then the integration and the mixture between the populations and finally the success that the migrants can know.



Development:



In the first one we can speak difficult conditions which have the migrants to cross the border between Mexico and the USA. In fact illegal Mexicans have to overcome several obstacles as control agents, people not wanting them. Indeed, the US border Patrol controls the 2100 mile US Mexico border and is responsible for the detection and arrest of illegal immigrants. They want to escape from their poor condition. Indeed in the audio document which we studied in class which is a video and is called " Crossing to get to the US " shows us the route(course)(parcours) of the migrants since their departure of Mexico until their arrived in the USA. This documentary shows us the difficult conditions of the trip. The migrants cross the border are on foot, in fear, and equipped with nothing more than the water they can carry. They wants to cross the frontier because they need money and work. They seeking jobs, descent housing, health care and education. In fact there are many reasons for illegal Mexican immigration to the USA, in particular the extreme poverty, high unemployment, little or no healthcare and US firms looking for cheap workforce.



When they succeed crossing, they find a job and often they are jobs industry as cook or cleaner. They accepting the jobs that US citizens refuse to do. But then they have papers and to vote. They manage to become integrated in the USA and to become American citizens. So they manage (arriver) to mix with the other citizens and to the society. Indeed the article which is called Spanglish allows us to see the coeducation enters various population. Ilan Stavans, the author of this article tells us his arrived in New York and his discovery of the various ethnic origins of the populations and the various dialects and in particular the Spanglish which is a mix between English and Spanish. But this article shows us the limit of this mixing social because there are consequences social and economic of Spanglish for example. Indeed, “Only 14 percent of Latino students in the country from college”. It shows us that there are inequalities between the Latin American and the other populations



Finally we can say that the immigration is not always an obstacle in the success of a man. Sometimes we can see that the migrants can begin a life in the USA without anything and arrive at a success. Indeed in the video of the New York Times dating August 17th, 2014 and which is called From Field to front Office we speak to us about Sergio Silva's success of Hispanic origin. He became a businessman at the head of a flower business. This documentary shows that more and more of Latino American succeed in the business. Of more Sergio Silva give mainly some work to the Latin American. This is a good example of a successful immigration.