Social Change Reflection

Social Change Reflection

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Social Change Reflection

While watching the video it was surprising to know that large numbers of young immigrants are living in America without legal documents. In addition, the way activist and their followers arranged the systematic movement to put pressure on Obama and his administration for citizenship is very impressive. The video was very interesting and informative for me.

The dream movement is the planned social change. The youngsters that are living in America for several years without a legal paper are now trying to get citizenship for better education and future opportunities. Spontaneous social change is the social change which brings the change in the society without any planning. For instance, population growth but the dream movement is the properly planned movement to pressurize the Obama for giving the youth their rights. Latino population is the highest population those gave maximum votes to the Obama and now they need citizenship because it will help them to get a better education. The consequences of the movement and involvement of activists and youth in a structured way make it planned social change.

The planning of the movement started in 2009 by the local groups that banned together into a national network. The youth without legal people hide their identity due to the fear of deportation. Establishment of a new organizations are also motivating the movement and making youth fearless to protest for their rights. Initially, youth was not confident about the movement and tried to hide their identity but after Obama administration took steps to deport the illegal immigrants those are involved in crime, dreamers groups stopped their deportation. These kinds of steps developed the confidence in youth and therefore the number of protesters are increasing with time. The movement impact is not gradual hence it is the example of changing the structure of the system ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"cAh6oEDo","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(The New York Times, n.d.)","plainCitation":"(The New York Times, n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":634,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/KDVHGFVU"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/KDVHGFVU"],"itemData":{"id":634,"type":"motion_picture","title":"Immigration Reform: The Fight to Pass the Dream Act","source":"YouTube","dimensions":"476 seconds","URL":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz2yr-vPOeo","title-short":"Immigration Reform","author":[{"literal":"The New York Times"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",6,18]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (The New York Times, n.d.).

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