MEXICAN AMERICAN

Mexican immigrant worker experiences in the United States

Mexican 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 Mexico saw great hardships throughout the history and now trying to enhance their luck by settling in USA for employment and better life. Thus, one of them from Mexico was I and came to USA for acquiring a successful life.

The current scenario shows that usually the most common work for us immigrants who newly arrives to United States, faces the a modern-day slavery, which denied the right to have a life and an improvement. I am 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 gets exploited their labor (Rank, 2004).

Discussion

Babysitting or house cleaning is what we can expect the vast majority of Mexican immigrant female workers in United States. On the Contrary, the male workers tend to do work which is not a white collar job. However, one of them is me who work in a house and get unmatched salary for the level of services provided by me to the family for which I work. Regardless of academic preparation obtained by us in our countries of origin, the system does not exclude us as cheap labor. For the domestic sector there are two types of contracts. It is also important to note that I am amongst those who are socially and politically active but invisible sector (Rank, 2004).

Degrading work life for Mexican immigrant workers to be a phenomenon of existential character when there is concrete work, but it ceases to exist, as 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. Moreover, the poor command of English is another problem that limits most of us workers to work with Mexican worker patterns, which have low monthly income, why not offer fair wages. However, the case with me is that I can speak English better than the average Latin workers, but still I do not have ...