Maid in America

According to the homeland security website, there are over one million people who have obtained legal permanent resident status in 2008. Do you support immigration? Or, do you believe immigrants (legal or illegal) are here to take our jobs, money and resources? To honor the National Hispanic Heritage Month in October, the GSASS Diversity Committee would like to invite you to a film, “Maid In America” by director Anayansi Prado.

In “Maid In America”, Prado follows the stories of three women, domestic workers in Los Angeles as they go about their day-to-day work in the wealthy enclaves of L.A. There are over 100,000 domestic workers in Los Angeles, women who leave their families behind in Central America and Mexico in order to take care of other people's children and homes in southern California. Undocumented workers in L.A. work wherever they can find jobs from raising children and maintaining a household to keeping lawns beautiful, offices clean and restaurants functioning. The American economy is totally dependent on them and could not function in its present state.

Maid in America
Monday, October 26, 2009, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, University Hall, Room 3-097
Film Duration: 57 minutes

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