Rio Vista and Mission Valley

 

Immigrants and immigrant families primarily make up San Diego and the United States, but the white American culture is somehow nurtured to believe that immigrants are negative and come to steal their jobs.

 

My project focuses on the stop Rio Vista, and the Mission Valley area, specifically looking into immigration the way it created San Diego. With that, I want to focus on how immigrants have not only physically built Mission Valley working in construction, but many continue to work there to provide for themselves, and their families.

 

There were a lot of different directions I could take once I began my research, with so much history. Mission Valley was once farm land on a river. Little by little, people kept coming in, building and eventually remodeling. Mission Valley now makes people think about freeways, shopping malls, and apartment complexes, but my project centers around immigrants.

 

Immigration is something I feel really strongly about. The message I want people to take is immigration has built up the whole of San Diego, and focusing on Mission Valley, it hopefully shows people that we all work hard to build what we have.

 

For my final project I have a slideshow on the Mission Valley area, with two interviews from a worker at Nordstrom Nack in Mission Valley, and two immigrants.