Hurricane Harvey Highlights the Injustice of Undocumented Immigrants
For my creative project, I created a Tumblr Blog highlighting and promoting awareness for undocumented immigrants and the racial/socioeconomic injustices that were brought to light in the occurrence of Hurricane Harvey. I utilized the environmental disaster of Hurricane Harvey to investigate the research topic of how this natural disaster not only ostracized undocumented immigrants but also implemented cultural and racial injustices within the undocumented immigrant community. Hurricane Harvey shaped not only the physical destruction of minority groups within undocumented immigrants’ homes and the landscape of Texas, but also the physiological, social, racial, and political impracticalities brought forth to undocumented immigrants through the post-disaster effects. This blog captures through both primary and secondary sources what it is like to be an immigrant living in a place affected by an environmental disaster and how the issue of undocumented immigrants is worsening within specific minority groups such as the Latino and Mexican communities.