Personal Response Essay. Social Sciences Assignment

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PERSONAL RESPONSE ESSAY
Through the readings, several insights can be learned. Issues surrounding labor have been well addressed. They continue affecting workers even to this day, despite the efforts by the relevant organizations to streamline the labor environment. From what I have learned in the second half of this course, I feel that the most pertinent labor issue affecting me deals with matters to do with race and immigration. The U.S., as a nation, has been built majorly by immigrants. It is often referred to as a nation of immigrants. The situation on the ground, however, is quite different as there is a serious issue when it comes to race and immigration.
Historically the country used to open its borders freely to immigrants who arrived in seeking opportunities and hence a chance to contribute towards the building of the nation. With time, however, restrictions came in, and stringent measures were put in place to control such an influx. Immigrants became an instrument of bias and discrimination. Back in the country, racial discrimination also took hold in the more significant aspects of labor and even distribution or allocation of it. From the readings, they are termed as racial and ethnic chasms (Meiksins & Sweet, 2013, p.222). Race has permeated through much of what constitutes the current labor environment.
A significant reason for this is that there seem to be some already-designed procedures that automatically classify individuals along with certain aspects of racial stratification. While the country's labor landscape or outlook might appear to be balanced and evenly distributed, there seem to be systems, "and social structures that unevenly allocate opportunities along racial lin...