American Dream

The article I chose is China's great Migration to Hukou hell. This article is about migrant workers that are fueling China's economic miracle. The Migrant workers are normally parents and they leave their kids with their grandparents to be raised and they are also known as floating kids. These Migrant workers send money back home for their family. The workers will travel home this year to be with family and friends during the holiday, making it the world's largest annual migration of people. The problem is called hukou because it is akin to an internal passport that divides the population into rural and urban residents so the migrant workers are prevented from accessing social services in the city they're working in.

I connected this article to my idea of the "American Dream" because they both deal with providing for the family. The Migrant workers set out for work so they can provide for their families back at home. The American Dream in my eyes is to improve the next generation by doing everything possible for them. The Migrant workers work hard and only travel home during the holidays because it is normally an extremely hard commute for some workers. I can also relate this to immigrants moving to American and later sending for their family so they can join them in the land of opportunity.