User:Sunflower110902/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Community organizing in immigrant communities

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I am currently working on a paper that explores how community organizing within the immigrant community and its allies has lead to important changes regarding immigration policies and the implementation of programs that have provided a grounds for equity for the immigrant community. With the drastically growing immigrant population within the United States, it is important for these groups to have a support system through which their needs are addressed, not through pre-determined solutions, but rather through solutions that directly reflect their (immigrants) needs. It can be quite easy to assume what it is that marginalized groups need, but without directly asking or listening to what they really need, no real change will be done. It is important to understand why different forms of community organizing groups arise and the different problems/needs they are either directly or indirectly addressing. Immigration is something that is almost inevitable, especially in the U.S. hence why it is important to support the community organizing groups aiming to support immigrant communities rather than criminalizing these groups for simply wanting a better life and opportunities. I thought the article was very straightforward regarding what it is that community organizing is and the different types of organizations that exist currently.

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While everything stated in the article was relevant to what they were talking about, I noticed that in the Talks section there was a suggestion for including an introduction paragraph. There is something of that sort stated in the article itself, but I feel that it can be done in a different manner that immediately grasps the readers attention. It could maybe start out by directly defining what community organizing is and them go into detail about its importance in the immigrant community context. The article itself isn't super neutral which I can see why it would be problematic since we'd want to relay information as neutral as possible. Given the sensitivity of the topic I definitely understand how it can be hard to leave out any bias since many marginalized communities have been and continue to be victims of prejudices and exclusions. I would say it is quite organized given how the subtitles flow quite nicely with one another, but I do feel that it could use more information on what community organizing groups have done. For example, further expand on two or three of the mentioned organizations and talk about what they are advocating for along with what they have achieved thus far as an organization. There isn't any images being used, although I'm not too sure what kind would be useful in this context; possibly from a campaign or protest organized by one of the community organizations referenced in the article. Overall, I definitely agree that this article can be written from a less bias point of view but nonetheless does a good job of summarizing what it is that community organizations do.

Which article are you evaluating?
Undocumented youth in the United States

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For my NTH essay that I am working on for my GPP 105 class, one of the sub-groups I talk about within the larger immigrant community are undocumented students. I feel that it is important to speak on and acknowledge the struggles that undocumented students face when pursuing a higher educations. More-so shedding light on the uncertainty they feel regarding their future and how the current socio-political climate plays into that. Understanding how laws and legislation are the main contributors to this growing uncertainty as new political leaders don't address pathways to residency so that many undocumented students can work in whatever field they majored in/obtained a degree for. I felt that the article effectively laid out what it's like for undocumented youth living in the U.S. regarding the struggles they face in education and life in the workforce. These are all very important topics that need to be addressed and improved upon so that the undocumented community is able to achieve a higher education and pursue good careers.

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The lead section was very straightforward in defining what undocumented youth are and providing a brief background. The different sub-topics flowed quite nicely, I feel that the only one that felt a bit out of place was the one regarding stigmas, but I can see why someone would place it between the paragraphs talking about employment and transitions into adulthood and the one talking about the engagement of undocumented students. I feel that the content is as up to date as it can be given that DACA is still on hold for new applicants and we don't really know what its future entails. Some of the links for the sources opened up to pages that no longer exist. There were some sources that weren't directly from a scholarly source which can affect the bias/delivery of the information presented in the article. There was one image used to portray the activism done by undocumented students regarding the DREAM Act. I think it is very significant that they are wearing graduation gowns in the protest, almost as a signal that they (undocumented students) are more than capable of pursuing a degree in higher education. Upon looking at the Talks page of the article, it appears that it was done for another Wiki Education course. Overall, I felt that this article flowed quite nicely and explained the varying struggles of undocumented youth across different sectors such as education and the workplace.