A LOMOS DE LA BESTIA - QUESTIONNAIRE

A LOMOS DE LA BESTIA

1. Summarize in a few lines the documentary.

In this documentary two yournalists involved in an adventure, they get the beast a train that goes from guatemala to USA to put theirselves in the shoes of an immigrant. In this trip they talked about mafia, kiddnappings, how women have to sell her body in return of protection and finally they talked about the dangerous that the beast is.

2. Why is the train called the Beast?

The train is called The Beast because is like a beast it can take an arm or a leg if you fall out of the train, it is also called The Beast because lots of people are raped, tortured, kidnapped, stolen or murdered during the journey.

3. What countries are the immigrants from? Where do they go?

This route is part of a international migration in this rute mexicans, honduran and guatemalan go from Mexico to USA.

4. What is the academic profesional experience of the immigrants?

All the people that was in the train want to have a better life, some of them like Marvin wants to work as carpenter, Freddy wants to follow working as a painter or Maritz that wants to work as a housekeeper to send money to her children.

5. What dangers do immigrants face during the journey?

Inmigrants that take this route suffer rap, torture, kidnapp, stole or murder during the journey, women have to sell their body for protection because seven of every  (each) ten are rapped. Other danger are the mafias that take the train to stole and kidnapp the inmigrantes in the train.

6. What type of migratory routes are described in the documentary?

The documentary talked about an international migration route that goes from Mexico and Center America to USA.  

7. Explain the consequences of migrations for both the countries that send the emigrants away and the countries that receive immigrants?

Economic: 

In the positive side for the countries that send the emigrantes, they send money back to their families,  so they improve the economy of their original county. in the negative side, their county loose workers and decrease the demands. in the other side the positive effects for the receiver country: inmigrants pay taxes and work; in the negative effects, salaries and working conditions could worsen.

Social:

Positively for the sender country the social conflicts decrease because there are less people, negatively the population and nativity decrease, while the receiver countries increase their population and nativity rates.in the negative side it cause xenophobic conflicts and social inequality.

Cultural: 

Positive effects are for the original country: the emigrants return with better education and in the negative effects emigrants lose traditions and identity.for the destination country: positives effects are that cultures mix and languages and traditions are exchanged and negative effects are cultural conflicts.

8. Give your personal opinion.

In my opinion all people must have the same rights and oportunities but now a days it isn´t posible because there is a large inequality. I also think that migrants are very useful for countries that send and for reicive because they exchange traditions, religions, languages and lost of things that people of the same country can´t now.