Ecuadorean Migration

As a number of Latin American countries continue to struggle with drug cartel violence, economic hardship, and food shortages, many Latinos depart their native country to escape those conditions. For a number of those Latinos, their goal is the United States (US) as their final destination. According to the 2010 US Census, the Latino population in Orleans Parish in New Orleans grew from 14,826 to 18,051 in a period of fewer than ten years. The number shows a significant increase, yet it does not account the number of Latino immigrants that avoided to be counted due to their undocumented status. The number of the Latino immigrants that were not counted during this period of time was estimated to be in the range of 10,000 to

Today the United States is a home to a huge number of Hispanics. Almost all Latin American migrants who come to the United States are looking for a better life. People leave Latin America because life there is very hard. Poverty, political instability and financial crises often make Latin American life more challenging than in the U.S., a wealthy country with lots of job opportunities.

Marisela reinforces some of Ravenstein’s laws which consist of, moving within proximity, big cities, more females migrate than men and the major causes of migration is economic. Marisela’s family relationships did grow apart and she still misses them very much. But she has no regrets of deciding to migrate to America

Immigration involves the movement of a group of people from one country to another where they do not possess citizenship. There are many reasons in which people may leave their country such as employment, lack of resources, family, fear due to violence, exile, the American dream. In 1965, Congress changed immigration law in ways that allowed much more intake from Asia and Latin America than earlier. Before 1965, the intake was mostly from Europe. Since then, over half has come from Latin America—28 % just from Mexico. The share of population composed of non-Hispanic whites plunged from 84 % in 1965 to only 62 % in 2015 while Hispanics soared from 4 to 18 %. (Mead, L.M., 2016)

The migration from the Dominican Republic to the United States was initiated by the US military occupation in the 1960s. The US involvement lead to a mass issuance of visas to Dominicans in order to forestall a Cuban-style revolution (Castles & Miller, 2009: 175). The migrant flows are maintained by existing links in the form of US trade and investment in the country (Castles & Miller, 2009: 28). In contrast to most other Latin American countries the Dominicans have easier legal access to the United States and thus can usually work in the formal economy and come and go as they wish ("International migration and social policy underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic" author Gabriel Ondetti: 46 ).

Immigration has played an important role throughout American history. What fundamentally sets America apart from other nations is the foundation that it was created by immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their children (Camarota & Zeigler, 2016). During times of economic growth, laborers have been imported, and deported during recessions (Flores, 2016). An average of 1.1 million immigrants relocate to the United States annually (Storesletten, 2000). US Customs and Border Control officials, have witnessed a significant increase in the number of “unaccompanied alien minors” from Latin America, anticipating 75,000 minors (if not more) from 2016 to 2017 (Rush, 2016). The average age for “unaccompanied alien minors” is 11 years

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This research project will investigate the migration process/journey Latin American immigrants endure in their attempts to immigrate to the United States. This paper will also study past and present immigration Laws and Policies such as: The Bracero Program (1942), the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Immigration and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, The Development, Relief, and Education

Between the years of 1840 and 1914, about forty million people immigrated to the United States from foreign countries. Many of them came to find work and earn money to have a better life for their families. Others immigrated because they wanted to escape the corrupt political power of their homelands, such as the revolution in Mexico after 1911. Whatever the case, many found it difficult to begin again in a new country. Most immigrants lived in slums with very poor living conditions. They had a hard time finding work that paid enough to support a family. Not only was it difficult for immigrant men, but for women as well. Immigrant women faced many challenges including lack of education and social life as well as low wages and poor

1) As Luma continues her educaton in the U.S she decides to leave her family to stay in the U.S. Explain why Luma would stay?

In 1996, the prosperous people in Ecuador received a total income of 50% from the nation, while the impoverished Ecuadorians received only 5%. In the book The Queen of Water, by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango, Virginia is a teenage girl living in the 1980s in Ecuador. It depicts the troubles Virginia has gone through to become a great student at a mestizo school and how she landed a job at one of the most well-known hotels. This explains all the hardships she faces and how she overcomes it all. The Queen of Water is based on a real girl, but she still clarifies the social class, the discrimination, and the women’s rights problems that people face everyday in the Ecuadorian society.

Immigration is the process of entry of individuals into a new country (23). Throughout past centuries, immigration has been a means of discovery and exploration of new lands. In today’s culture, immigration to the United States is an avenue for individuals who wish to start new lives and take advantage of the capitalistic, entrepreneurial system. People from many countries have migrated into the United States. Most recently, the migrants have come from Central and South American countries. These Latin American countries influence America’s society culturally and economically through their language, traditions, and workforce. From the 1990s to the present time, immigration from Latin American countries has more than

She writes that in the early 1960's, her father worked as a diplomat in Peru. Therefore, her family had to leave the United States and return to Peru to live. During that time, her brother who was born in the United States had to attend school in Peru. Interestingly, even though the school where he attended was taught in English, he still spoke English with an accent.

love of the country and a respectable degree of fluency in the language. She used her time in the

Although Latin American countries like Ecuador are defined as ?Third World? due to their economical level the lifestyle in Quito, for instance, follows more or less the pattern we know in this part of the world. People, drive to work, eat out and children go to school. However, this system functions with different values, customs or schedule. I spent four weeks in Quito at the Spanish Academy to take transfer credits in this language. During this time period I lived with an Ecuadorian family that is the parents and their two daughters, which allowed me to interact with them on a daily basis. The father, Ramon works in the United States and Marcella, 18, the eldest daughter attends college in Quito where she studies medicine. I found it easy to interact with Marcella because our age difference is not big and we are both college students. In addition she is a girl and we could discuss topics that are relevant to our gender, such as fashion or dates. The fact that this family educational level does not greatly differ from mine helped our communication, and shaped the messages we were exchanging. We were able to discuss many topics from politics to sociological and although they are from a different culture, our views were not radically opposites. However, the pace at which the Ecuadorian society develops made it difficult for me to explain them clearly