Disoriented

Based on US Immigration Rights

Movement

Created by: Grant Cubol

Course Title: Ethnic Studies
❖ Maria Elena Durazo was a leader of an organization called the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride in
2004, and faced conflict in Texas when they resisted against authority.
❖ The US Immigrants Rights movement accounted for the civil rights of immigrants
❖ Not only were the Latino ethnic group supported by this movement, but Filipinos, African-Americans,
Muslims were also represented through labor unions, and Irish-American immigrants also organized
movements during the 19th century for improved work conditions and higher pay.
❖ During George Bush’s term as President, Republicans and anti-immigrant supporters became
prominent, and persuaded the government to take measures against immigration with enforced
punishment and deportation only for immigration. 83% of deported people did not go on a trial
before a judge in 2013. Senator John McCain and other authority figures in the U.S. legislature
Under Bush attempted to form an immigration reform, but weren’t successful. However, during
Obama’s administration, action for immigrants rights movements throughout 2009 was making
gains.
❖ US immigrants rights movements still continue to this day, and have been steadily advancing in
society.
❖ There is much adversity for pro-immigrant supporters, but they have also gathered support for
themselves over time, especially during recent years.
Mixtape Songs
You Grew Up - Oddisee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_QnHx
M1_A
The song communicates how immigrants and
ethnic groups were recognized by society,
and people were corrupted or changed by the
world from generations of hatred, telling a
story wherein a person was negatively
influenced by his dad’s belief that “Immigrants
robbed citizens jobs”. Oddisee wrote this
song to acknowledge the causes and effects
of how a person enters the world of
adulthood.
Rather Be - Clean Bandit ft. Jess
Glynne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-M1AtrxztU
The lyrics in the beginning of the song illustrate the struggle
from traversing from one environment to another. Their
journey was motivated by the pursuit of freedom. Rather Be
wasn’t originally meant to be a love song, and expresses
sentiment about resolving oneself to finding a place in the
world.
Us - James Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31XTrGJchQ
The song carries a message of the pain and oppression
that people are burdened with in the world. It talks about
how people can make it far in life by joining together in
union.
Mixtape Songs Sick Boy - The Chainsmokers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACohWVwTOc

It’s A Man’s Man’s World-James

The lyrics express a message of the corruption in
Brown America. Whether on the westside or eastside,
everywhere in the country is recognized a place of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H77fRz1ry broken people, “united by our indifference”, as labor
bs unions are discriminated against cliques in America.

It talks about how mankind plays a big role in

the world. HUmanity has made it through the
world by their own abilities, creating vehicles
to bring them across distances, and also as Run - Joji
lost people in the world as a result of
indoctrinated social values. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K09_5IsgGe8

.
A person is portrayed as running in pursuit of an
impossible and intangible goal. He ponders on taking
on the world, and travels the country in hopes of
reaching closure, despite knowing his situation of
being lost in suspension.
Mixtape Songs
Underground - Don’t Forget To Open
Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7PvjpxGwg
Life is viewed from the perspective of hope while being
within a place of hardship and instability. Despite the
oppression of living, they still express resolve and a
sentiment of belonging by saying, “There’s a moment it gets
better and it’s worth taking the risk”, and “The world is a
very dark place, but I love it”.
Fly Home - The Living Tombstone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUhPpXlPmnw
The song tells a story that every day is a new change in
environment. As a person journeys around the world to be
free from a life of perpetual struggle, telling their life story as
“Living without a sovereign nation” and “Sick and tired of
the aggravation”.
Audio - LSD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjA7nAHOAww
Labyrinth, Sia, and Diplo express the message that we
can make the world a better place if we just embraced this
voice within ourselves. Labyrinth tells “You got the heart,
we got the soul. Just when the world sayin' they got no
hold”, and Sia reiterates in the end that “We can't live on
without the rhythm”. All three artists collaborate as LSD to
express that people have to live in harmony.
Everything Stays - Olivia Olson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0UOKd1dd0
The song expresses that our identity will be the same, no
matter who are where we are over time. Although things
seem different, people should persevere. Inspired from a
childhood experience the songwriter had, she explained,
“It wasn’t better, or worse, just different. It was the first
time I realized that things will change no matter what,
even if they’re left alone, and stay completely still.”
 Bibliography

Engler, https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/us-immigrant-rights-movement-2004-ongoing/

Silva, https://immigration.ucr.edu/what-we-know/social-movements/