Austen Reyes
10/11/2015
Peer Review Quest
Conversation:
Omega Centauri 09.27.15 at 2:54 pm
The cost of contracting with these smugglers is creating a selective effect on who immigrates.
Families without enough resources remain as IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons). This with
modest means can sell all the family wealth in order to be smuggled towards developed
countries. So we find the most desperate are left behind to fend for themselves.
thelastbeatpoet 09.27.15 at 4:12 pm
Omega Centauri’s point about those with the least means being stuck closer to home because
they cannot afford the smugglers’ prices, can be viewed in another, perhaps more cynical, way.
The smugglers act as a filter to allow only those with means through the gauntlet (Hungary, the
Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey, etc.). Maybe they are even abetting the unspoken wishes of the
Germans to attract migrants who are most qualified to quickly assimilate into the German society
and workforce.
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This exchange between the two people is definitely scholarly conversion and also peer
review. I believe peer review is the same thing as scholarly conversion because for example
giving your feedback on another students work and them agreeing or disagreeing with what you
tell them is in fact scholarly conversation. In the exchange between the two above it wasn’t
exactly giving feedback but more building upon a certain point made by the person and giving
your view on it. In the conversation above the second writer specifically built upon the fact the
poorest people stay behind since they can`t afford to pay smugglers and made his own little blog
in response to his peer. Scholarly Conversion is something that will always benefit us and open
up our minds to new things.