Sociological Imagination: Illegal Immigrants
Sociological imagination is known as the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society. Virtually any social concept can have sociological imagination applied to it. An example of the application of the sociological imagination is on illegal immigration. The perception of being undocumented can be viewed from several different perspectives rather than just the simple fact of just being a normal person. Being an undocumented person is an issue many people face in the united states and for a long time I was one of those people. Certainly being an undocumented immigrant can have a lot of sociological imagination. In society there is this concept where it is to believe that being an undocumented
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Illegal immigrants face the most economic inequality because they are not able to work in regular jobs that get paid by the minimum wage they tend to work in very little to almost no money at all and because of this they lose many opportunities to prosper because like many young immigrants who desire to go to college are faced by a very hard obstacle which was not being able to get financial aid and this may affect many young immigrants since they don't have the financial opportunity to attain money. As well as obtaining money people lose many benefits because they are not documented. In the article we are not illegal by Sukjong Hong it states how “ Tania, a 17-year-old from Ecuador, told the story of her cousin, an excellent student who is unsure if she can attend college because she is undocumented. “If you are documented, you have to support other people who are undocumented. That is why I am here.” I totally related to tania cousin when I was in highschool I was unaware if I could even attend college due to the the fact that I was undocumented and I had no financial support. luckily I received a scholarship and had the opportunity to attend college nevertheless that is not the case for many students and due to the fact that they are undocumented they may not get the chance to attend
Illegal immigrants face the most economic inequality because they are not able to work in regular jobs that get paid by the minimum wage they tend to work in very little to almost no money at all and because of this they lose many opportunities to prosper because like many young immigrants who desire to go to college are faced by a very hard obstacle which was not being able to get financial aid and this may affect many young immigrants since they don't have the financial opportunity to attain money. As well as obtaining money people lose many benefits because they are not documented. In the article we are not illegal by Sukjong Hong it states how “ Tania, a 17-year-old from Ecuador, told the story of her cousin, an excellent student who is unsure if she can attend college because she is undocumented. “If you are documented, you have to support other people who are undocumented. That is why I am here.” I totally related to tania cousin when I was in highschool I was unaware if I could even attend college due to the the fact that I was undocumented and I had no financial support. luckily I received a scholarship and had the opportunity to attend college nevertheless that is not the case for many students and due to the fact that they are undocumented they may not get the chance to attend