Analysis Of The Book ' Youth Held At The Border ' By Lisa Patel

The mother in “Borders” by Thomas King reveals her pride and courage for her identity as she crosses the border to visit her daughter Laetitia in Salt Lake City. Challenges like self-identity are faced every step of the way, but it a person with pride and bravery who accepts it gladly. This is best demonstrated by King and his use of conflict, repetition and literary devices.

In the essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee. The author talks about the problems immigrants face while they are in America. The author talks about her and her friend Mira’s struggles with Americas policies. This essay examines the audience of the text, the purpose for writing the story, and the subject of the book being read. By examining the audience, finding the purpose of the story, and researching and analyzing the author. The readers can have a deeper understanding of the book.

    For thousands of years people have left their home country in search of a land of milk and honey. Immigrants today still equate the country they are immigrating to with the Promised Land or the land of milk and honey. While many times this Promised Land dream comes true, other times the reality is much different than the dream. Immigration is not always a perfect journey. There are many reasons why families immigrate and there are perception differences about immigration and the New World that create difficulties and often separate generations in the immigrating family. Anzia Yezierska creates an immigration story based on a Jewish family that is less than ideal. Yezierska’s text is a

The teenage years and transition to adulthood is in itself a very difficult period. Blending or fitting in are omnipresent issues that must be dealt with. For children of immigrants, this difficulty is only intensified through language. Both Amy Tan and Khang Nguyen strategically use narrative anecdotes and employ several rhetorical devices to illustrate this struggle in their works, “Mother Tongue” and “The Happy Days,” respectfully. Amy Tan chooses her childhood home as the primary setting of her work. This allows her to focus primarily on her conversations and interactions with her mother. However, she also gives several anecdotes in which her mother’s background and improper English negatively affected her, outside the home. Through

In the United States, immigrants come from varying countries in search of the American Dream. This dream entails the belief that their lives can be improved because of the various amounts of opportunities in United States. Due to this, thousands of migrant youth move from Central and South America to Texas in search for a better life. By crossing the Rio Grande border, the migrant youth are escaping the corruption and violence in their native country. Although the migrant youth are in search of a better life in America, the United States has a policy against undocumented immigrants. As a result of this, two perspectives of the migrant youth (that want a better life for themselves by coming illegally) and United States (that have to deport those immigrants who come illegally) arise. In order to analyze migrant youth better, some anthropological methods used are participant observation and interviews. All in all, the spread of migrant youth reveals the idea of the immigration crisis in the United States.

Here in the Rio Grande Valley immigration has become the hit. An immigrant in my own words is someone from a different country that travels to an alternative country permanently for a better life. I belief they are many unlike reasons why people live in their country but cross to another country. Actually, I’m not in immigrant, I’m a US citizen but I have experienced many stories and seen families struggle from this situation. Nevertheless, to my own experience, some people move to the US to find better jobs, but some move to different counties to look forward not only to better their education but their children’s as well. In this research paper I will be pointing out the important factors and expectations of illegal immigrants in the US,

Many second generation minorities from immigrant parents are driven subconsciously to conform to new culture and social norms. For foreign born parents and native born children integrating the two cultures they inhabit brings about different obstacles and experiences. In Jhumpa’s “The Namesake” the protagonist Gogol is a native born American with foreign born parents. The difference with birth location plays an important role in assimilating to a new society in a new geography. The difficulty for parents is the fact that they’ve spent a decent amount of time accustomed to a new geography, language, culture and society which makes it difficult to feel comfortable when all of that changes. For Gogol the difficulty only lies with the cultural norms imposed by his parent’s and the culture and social norms that are constantly presented in the new society.

In conclusion unauthorized immigrants account for approximately one-fourth of all immigrants in the United States, yet they dominate public perceptions and are at the heart of a policy impasse (Suárez-Orozco, Yoshikawa, Teranishi, & Suárez-Orozco, 2011). Caught in the middle are the children of these immigrants—youth who are coming of age and living in the shadows. An estimated 5.5 million children and adolescents are growing up with unauthorized parents and are experiencing multiple and yet unrecognized developmental consequences as a result of their family's existence in the shadow of the law (Suárez-Orozco, Yoshikawa, Teranishi, & Suárez-Orozco, 2011). Although these youth are American in spirit and voice, they are nonetheless members of

This paper will explore the injustices, the trauma, the fear experienced by immigrants, particularly, the young children who were brought to the United States by their parents to escape political persecution, and harsh economic backgrounds. This study is important for various reasons, and the primary reason is that the young teenager who grew up loving the United States, and they identify with American values. These youngsters would be an asset to this country, and they want the chance to become nurses, engineers, and teachers etc. The United States is a melting pot of immigrants, and the undocumented immigrant want to come out of the shadows and become productive members of our society. If we sent these political immigrants back to a country, they do not know, and to face uncertain terror, then how can we help them with their trauma. Living in fear is not their source of their trauma.

It is very difficult for someone to leave their place of origin and arrive to the United States, in a melting pot of different cultures. Based on the module readings and the documentary, “Lost in Detention”, immigrant’s experiences many physical and mental damages to their health, which can make their new life in America, a negative, rather than a positive. Immigrants arrive to the country in overall relatively good health (in comparison to natives) and with a hopeful attitude. After a few years, immigrants began to suffer depression, anxiety and poor health due to the conditions that they are presented with.

I think that children of immigrants differ from their parents in multiple ways, but particularly the way that they try harder to “fit in” in the new country, instead of staying true to their old culture. CBC News posted an article five years ago talking about how the “children of immigrants [are] caught between 2 cultures.” One of the people they mentioned was Ronia Arab, a 16-year-old second-generation Canadian who goes to Churchill High School (in Winnipeg). The article states, “‘My parents don’t like the way I dress,’ said the 16-year-old. ‘They want me to be like them, but I don’t know anything about their culture.’” Farah, 14, on the other hand, has it a little better. He believes his mom to be the one who helps him make the right choices, “even though he says she’s too strict sometimes.” In the case of Ronia, her parents

There are many difficulties which immigrants and immigrant's descendants encounter such as: language difficulties, identity crisis, economic, educational gaps and cultural differences. This film shows some difficulties and challenges which immigrants and immigrant's descendants experience from Carlos and his son, Luis point of view.

This article explores the importance of creating new policies that will allow immigrant families to stay together. Moreover, it focuses on the stress placed upon children when their parents are deported. This article will be useful to the paper because it looks at the impact of the change in immigration policies and the effects of deportation of parents of U.S.-born citizens.

To begin with, Yulee High School is home to a conglomerate of cornfed local yokel citizens with crimson necks of which many northern adolescent immigrants find they do not socially belong and struggle to sympathize with. At this time teens are developing crucial social skills and finding their place within society; as a new student this developmental process is hindered. The sociological stress placed on a new student to fit

This Alejandro Portes and Rivas are two authors who investigated how young immigrants adapt to a life in the United States. These authors began noting of two distinct migrants: the Asian and the Hispanic. The reason that this article is reliable is both authors are a professor of Sociology at Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Sociology. The article will help me by having authors with a Ph.D. in Sociology describing the life of both Asian and Hispanic adapting the lifestyle in the United