Carmen Case Study

Immigration affects families in many different ways. In the book “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario, family is a core element. After Enrique’s mother leaves for the U.S., the whole concept of their family gets distorted. The walking out of Enrique’s father and the abandonment of his grandmother help to disband the family even more. Enrique also threatens to repeat the same mistakes his family made with his daughter when he considers leaving her behind in Honduras. Family is the central theme in Enrique’s Journey because of his relationship and resentment with his mother, the rejection of his father and grandmother, and Enrique’s decision to leave his daughter, Jasmin, behind.

DATA: The team met today with Carmen’s therapist and peer counselors at the treatment center. Carmen, a 15 year old, Hispanic female recently relapsed and was arrested for drugs. As a result, Carmen is mandated to in patient drug treatment for 30 days.

Ochoa began as a young girl living in Kenner, LA from a low socioeconomic family. As the daughter of two Honduran immigrants, Dr. Ochoa learned from an early age the value of hard work, the importance of family, and especially the value of an education. Dr. Ochoa credits much of her success to her family for their support and guidance throughout her

Many young second generation daughters of Mexican heritage has grown up with a distinctive gender norm. In the midst of the second world war, the expression of freedom and equality spread throughout the country. This initiates for women to become more tuned to the social affairs the men had left behind. Thus, immigration brought a lot of Mexican families into Los Angeles. Double exposure to familial expectations and the American way of life brought in a sense of desperation of trying to balance both. The second generation daughters who have been exposed to the loudly spoken

Carmen is a student who goes above and beyond. She is an A & B student and is currently taking two AP classes. She is also very involved in school. She is part of the Organization of Latin American Students, member of the Theater Honor Society, and participates in soccer, cross country and track. Aside from her school activities she also works 25 hours a week. She was honest and said that worked played a big rolled in her low ACT score. Because of all of this she did not prepared and study as she should of. Carmen knows that she is a good student bases on her hard work and transcript but also know that she will need to learn how to manage her time and even work less hours once she is in college and she want to be successful academically.

It was a wonderful eye-opening experience to interview Carmen Anton, a Spanish immigrant for this project. I learned so many things about how she arrived in American as a small child with only her sister by her side and her strive to become American. The emotional struggles of Carmen and her sister, Elena, were real and I didn’t realize it was that emotionally draining to come to a new country. Her experience showed me how hard it is to fit into a new society knowing absolutely nothing about the world she was dropped into. The fact that she flew here with her younger sister and then live for three months without her parents to guide her in this unfamiliar setting, shows me how strong and brave Carmen was at the young age of eight. When she first came, she assumed it would be like

Mrs. Garcia is a middle age Mexican American woman, first generation acculturation into the societal beliefs

The novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz is told from the perspective of many characters, exploring each character's individual struggles. These individual struggles represent the prevalent social and cultural problems at the time. In fact, many of the characters in the book encountered similar obstacles and difficulties throughout the story, creating a clear pattern. Diaz utilizes these characters to convey to the reader what life was like for some of the Dominican migrants and their children. Diaz illustrates how it was difficult for people to escape the accepted gender roles that are constantly being forced upon them. He also conveys how race and social class inevitably played a significant role in determining a person's

Description: Ortiz’ full name is Leslie Jasmine Ortiz. Her nickname is Leslooo. She is currently nineteen years old. Ortiz was born in Newark, New Jersey, but was from Perth Amboy New Jersey, and was raised in Pontiac. She lives with her parents, younger brother, and her pitbull Hershey.

A life in the city of Seguin, Texas was not as easy as Cleofilas, the protagonist of the story thought it would be. The author, Cisneros describes the life women went through as a Latino wife through Cleofilas. Luckily, Cisneros is a Mexican-American herself and had provided the opportunity to see what life is like from two window of the different cultures. Also, it allowed her to write the story from a woman’s point of view, painting a vision of the types of problems many women went through as a Latino housewife. This allows readers to analyze the characters and events using a feminist critical view. In the short story “Women Hollering Creek” Sandra Cineros portrays the theme of expectation versus reality not only through cleofilas’s thoughts but also through her marriage and television in order to display how the hardship of women in a patriarchal society can destroy a woman’s life.

This book helped me to see one of the underlying reason why immigrants would at all cost come to the U.S. in order to pursue a better life, whether it’s for themselves or for their families. For example, in the beginning of the story, we were told that all the Rivera family wanted was “the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night , to smile, to laugh, to be well” (3). By moving to the U.S., the Riveras believe their daughter would have a promising future under special education program offered in the states. The example of Arturo truly depicted one’s desire to pursue a better future for their young one, he left his successful construction business in Mexico and became a mushroom picker, all for his daughter’s betterment of education (25). From his example, we truly see only a loving parent would made these sacrifices in order to immigrate to the U.S., bringin back the theme of American Dream once again.

Looking at the symptoms such as anxiety attacks, overeating, fear of accomplishment, fear of abandonment, and so forth—can be interpreted as outward manifestations of unconscious conflicts that have their origins in childhood experiences and defensive reaction to these experiences that are necessary to her as a child.

Lupe is 45 year old Mexican Americans woman, and she has two adult children, which are both adults. Lupe has a mother in her late 60s, and the mother expects Lupe to visit her. Lupe has started attending numerous church social function in hopes she might meet someone; furthermore, she does not want to end up like her mother, alone. Her husband left and never helped support his children 16 years ago, and they were never married. Lupe’s daughter, Lucia, moved in with her own daughter named Eva, and Lucia left her boyfriend due to the same financial problems. It appears history is repeating itself again with her daughter; consequently, Lupe was injured on the job, and she needs physical therapy. Lupe appeared depressed refers, and her doctor referred her to a counselor. Lupe has an enormous amount of problems, and it is no wonder she is suffering from depression.

family is currently going through health, housing and economic issues. The Ramirez family consists of the father Mr. Juan Ramirez, age 81. Maria Ramirez, age 42, is the oldest daughter and Olga, age 28 is the youngest. Daughter Maria has two children they are Marco, age 22, who is diagnosed with Autism and daughter Lisa, 17 years old. The social worker has applied the strength perspective and the ecosystems perspective in helping them to assist their issues. The prioritized issues that will be face are Mr. Ramirez health issues, the possibility of loosing their home, and the economic issues the family is facing at the moment. The social work will abide

Carmen is the youngest of two between her parents’ marriage and the youngest of seven including her half-siblings from her father’s first marriage. Her role of the family is something she is not sure of, she thinks the role that she most often plays is the peacemaker. Due to her birth defect, she also plays a sick role that has shaped how her family functions. She moved to the Grant, which is outside of Rigby, when she was five and has lived in the area ever since. She considers her family middle class, Caucasian, and are members of the Latter Day Saints religion. Carmen is currently single and living with her parents while she is pondering what the next step in her life will be.