Immigrants and September 11th

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-11/local/30162444_1_undocumented-immigrants-immigrant-victims-families






This article provides an interesting perspective on 9/11 that i had not often seen explored before. The article points out the fact that over 100 illegal migrant workers were killed during the September 11 attacks. However, as these workers remain on the periphery of New Yorker's consciousness, their needs and even existence was overlooked in the time following the attacks. It was not until the company Asociacin Tepeyac took up the cases for these workers that it was acknowledged that they had been killed. Helping families of these immigrant workers provided unique challenges. Often their families did not have proof that their loved ones had even existed and some employers would not admit to the existence of these workers for fear of being persecuted for employing illegal immigrants. Asociacin Tepeyac also had to figure out ways to send aid to some of these workers families in foreign countries who had lost their main source of support. New Yorkers prided themselves on coming together as a community after 9/11 but the truth is that even after 9/11, these immigrant workers remained separated and invisible, pushed to the periphery through the processes of globalization. 


-Hannah Andrew