Kirsti Clapsadle WGS 101 Megan Burke Response Living in a Globalizing World, brought up a lot of topics like financial

problems with countries who receive loans from the World Bank, migration, and goods consumption. I particularly was interested in the issues with the World Bank. I didnt know much about what happens when a loan is taken out with the World Bank. There are requirements for whoever takes out a loan with this bank that call for lowering the standard of living for a community. Prices and taxes go up, social service spending goes down, and cash crops for exports are moved to a higher level of importance than healthy needs for local citizens. This is a huge issue because, as I mentioned, it lowers the quality of living for communities that took out the loan. If they were at the point of needing the loan in the first place, their standard of living probably wasnt all too great to begin with. It is frustrating to think that money is so much more important to some people than the lives of others. The Homeland, by Gloria Anzalda, tells of sad, maddening stories of migrants. There are stories where families are separated, and women who have to work for men who show no signs of respect. America is run by a dominantly male government and with this patriarchal society, we have issues of what I would consider discrimination. They allow migrant workers to work jobs that no one wants to do, but do not let them come to our land in the first place. Whats worse is the law passed last year in Arizona to allow any alien-looking person to be pulled over. Theyre not only denying outsiders the right to come in, but now they make those who are already here, many of whom are actually citizens, feel unwelcome. Our government takes advantage of people in any way it can and it is infuriating.

A few years ago, a wave of childcare need came along and Filipino women, with need for jobs, took advantage of this. In Rhacel Salazar Parreas The Care Crisis in the Phillipines, we hear of the affects this wave has had on the children of the Filipino childcare workers who travel great distances to care for other families. One girl, Ellen, had a mother who worked in New York. While her mother did call her frequently, she was left at home to repress the jealousy she felt toward the other family for taking her mother away from her. This is a growing issue as women enter the workforce and have less time to be home caring for their children. My question is why arent there local people willing to do the jobs who dont have children at home to care for? In the Penguin Atlas of Women in the Worlds Global Sex Trafficking, we witness the high numbers of