Citizenship the Struggle of Immigrant

Citizenship The Struggle of Immigrant Workers and Gay/Lesbian Groups The common factor in the struggle of immigrant workers and gay/lesbian people in the United States is how both group can live a normal life, without any discrimination from the American society. Both the immigrant workers and gay/lesbian communities struggle for acceptance from the American society. Tracing back in the American history, these groups experience inequality because their citizenships are not considered by the Native Americans to belong in their class. Even the U.S.

government itself used to have laws that discriminate immigrants and gay/lesbian individuals from having the same status in any environment, whether at work or in school, as with the native Americans. On gay/lesbian discrimination, such people were not accepted as citizens of the United States. The notes further indicate this discrimination in the following. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued an executive order in 1953 barring gay men and lesbians from all federal jobs. Many state and local governments and private corporations followed suit.

The FBI began a surveillance program against homosexuals. On immigrant discrimination on the other hand, the majority of immigrants were employed at low types of job. The notes indicate that This is about the capitalists finding the workers they believe to be the most vulnerable, and using them. Louie identifies several workforces that the larger society has declared to be vulnerable: Chinese, Mexican, and Korean workers.

The struggles of the immigrants and the gay/lesbian individuals however have some differences in a way that the immigrants are luckier than the gay/lesbians in terms of surviving a life in America. Although discriminated, the immigrants have chances of being employed. The gay/lesbian, on the other hand, were totally banned from employment that laws were even passed to legally bar them from having jobs. Obstacle Facing Immigrants and Gay/Lesbian Groups The main obstacle facing the immigrants is their citizenship.

For the gay/lesbians, the main obstacle against them is the norm that the society follows. Since the early centuries up to the present, discrimination in the United States had been present in the lives of those who are not purely American citizens - an obstacle that seems to haunt them until the day they die. Louie identifies this in the following. A janitors in New York City, by way of example, were largely.