IMMIGRANT WORKERS

Dominican Republic and Haitian immigrant worker experiences in the United States

Dominican Republic and Haitian immigrant worker experiences in the United States

Introduction

United States in the land of dreams and various people across the globe land and try their luck to create a better life for them and their future generations. However, United States is known for employment and people suffering in developing nations migrate to USA and settle down. Similarly the people of Dominican Republic and Haiti saw great hardships throughout the history and now trying to enhance their luck by settling in USA for employment and better life (Fagg, 1965).

The current scenario shows that usually the most common work among immigrants who newly arrives to United States, but it is a modern-day slavery, which denied the right to have a life and an improvement. Usually forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day without getting overtime pay for salaried due to imposed a week, from the beginning one hundred percent is exploited their labor (Stepick, & Portes, 1986).

Body

Babysitting or house cleaning is what we can expect the vast majority of Dominican Republic and Haitian immigrant female workers in United States. On the Contrary the male workers tend to do work that is not a white collar job. Regardless of academic preparation obtained in their countries of origin, the system does not exclude them as cheap labor. For the domestic sector there are two types of contracts. It is also important to note that they are socially and politically active but invisible sector.

Degrading work life for Dominican Republic and Haitian immigrant workers to be a phenomenon of existential character (when there is concrete work, but it ceases to exist when there is no law governing a base salary, employment benefits such as granting the right to health insurance, compensation or vacation, specific for that sector (Philip, Midgley, & Teitelbaum, 2002).

The poor command of English is another problem that limits most workers to work with Dominican Republic and Haitian worker patterns, which have low monthly income, why not offer fair wages. Dominican Republic and Haitian immigrant workers are residing in the country for years, usually pay a week for Live In $ 250.00 to $ 300.00 per week which equates to $ 4.17 to $ 5.00 per hour. But working with Americans in cities like Beverly Hills, Thousand Oaks, Woodland Hills, Calabasas etc., which are centers where lies the ...