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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.

Growing up with parents who are immigrants can present many obstacles for the children of those immigrants. There are many problems people face that we do not even realize. Things happen behind closed doors that we might not even be aware of. Writers Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan help us become aware of these problems. Both of these authors express those hardships in their stories about growing up with foreign parents. Although their most apparent hardships are about different struggles, both of their stories have a similar underlying theme.

The book focus on the youth immigrant and how they come across the bother. The border in this book does not simply mean nation- state border. It is the racial, language, schooling, racial borders. Basically, these borders usually happen when you come to the country which you have never experienced. Therefore, youth immigrant couldn’t imagine how the new life treat them in new country. Most of immigrant before they come to United State, They all have the beautiful image of America in their head. But The truth behind the “American Dream” is the harsh reality which they have to face everyday.

As a result of these “American problems” the mother decides to move the family into boarding schools in order to avoid these cultural conflicts.

One of the ideas that is brought up is the concept of being bullied. He says the following “ 20% of female and 18% of male high school students reported being bullied at school in the past 12 months. ( Cornell, 220) Eighteen percent of boys get bullied in school. One issue that has not been solved in schools are types of programs that are introduced to the students that will prevent bullying to happen. There’s an organization that is called UpStand which is an anti bullying program, that will come to the school and give them an whole presentation on the danger of bullying.

Cristina Henriquez’, The Book of Unknown Americans, folows the story of a family of immigants adjusting to their new life in the United States of America. The Rivera family finds themselves living within a comunity of other immigrants from all over South America also hoping to find a better life in a new country. This book explores the hardships and injustices each character faces while in their home country as well as withina foreign one, the United States. Themes of community, identity, globalization, and migration are prevalent throughout the book, but one that stood out most was belonging. In each chacters viewpoint, Henriquez explores their feelings of the yearning they have to belong in a community so different than the one that they are used to.

Alejandrez begins his essay with a story from his childhood. He sets up the story by giving it a time and place he is the son of a migrant worker born in a cotton field in Merigold, Mississippi. He then describes his difficult childhood using vivid language, as the son of a migrant worker he had to move many times a year and assimilate into many different schools. His family had to make ends meet with the little money they had so most of the time that meant having no shoes or one pair of pants. The social climate was also very tense, he describes it as “ I always remembered my experience in Texas, where

In the story “Four Stations in His Circle”, Austin Clarke reveals the negative influences that immigration can have on people through characterization of the main character, symbols such as the house that Jefferson dreams to buy and the time and place where the story takes place. The author demonstrates how immigration can transform someone to the point that they abandon their old culture, family and friends and remain only with their loneliness and selfishness.

Immigration has a great impact on first generation immigrants. Studies show that acculturation and assimilation have wide-ranging effects on the groups involved, but mostly on the immigrants' lives. There are positive and negative attributes. Attributes that are due to the issues associated with integrating cultures, and broadly related to the greater issue of immigration. The issues and discrimination towards first generation immigrants cause them to have limitations throughout their lifetime, in the country that they have moved to. Furthermore, the Hispanic and Latino community have lived through this problem for so long. They are always the group to be affected by it because they lose a sense

This can be a humiliating experience for many parents, which is worsened by their lack of knowledge about the English language. Along the process, most Vietnamese parents must deal with the unfamiliarity of U.S. culture, values, and rules in the working environment and the potential for discrimination.".This section of the article is discussing how Vietnamese immigration parents can be overly stress , and add to the authoritarian parenting method. This kind of behavior from parents can have a negative affecting on children. In fact, it only discourage children from striving for success knowing that there will be no rewards but only criticism. This is reflected Lac's experiences throughout his memoir.

Author, Jennine Capo Crucet, in her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, describes the story of Lizet, a first-generation Cuban-American college student. Lizet is accepted into an elite college has a hard time balancing school and family and to make matters even more challenging her mother, Lourdes becomes more involved in the Ariel Hernandez case, a young Cuban boy who was rescued and brought to Miami and now is on the verge of being deported. As the case progresses it shows us how Lizet changes as minority in a wealthy, white, university. Crucet’s purpose is to convey the idea that, going to college is difficult especially when coming from a minority background. Crucet adopts a sentimental tone in order to appeal to similar experiences for readers who experienced college.

First of all, the setting of this novel contributes to the Rivera family’s overall perception of what it means to be an American. To start this off, the author chooses a small American city where groups of Latino immigrants with their own language and traditions, lived together in the same apartment building. All these immigrants experienced similar problems since they moved from their countries. For example, in the novel after every other chapter the author

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

The postwar period in France was a period were identity was being redefined. The struggle to find and understand identity was particularly difficult for recent immigrant workers from former colonies. As the period progressed into the late 1960s, anti-immigrant rhetoric ramped up and was becoming integrated with mainstream politics. The prejudices against immigrant workers and their families was especially difficult for the children, often born in France, who were stuck between two identities. The older generation suffered a loss of identity and reminders that they were not completely welcome in France. Azouz Begag’s Shantytown Kid offers a deeper understanding

Enrique’s Journey focuses and sheds more light and understanding on the aspects and challenges of extreme poverty, family abandonment, systematic issues of an immigration system and what one has to go through in the face of adversity. The book centers on Enrique who starts out as a young boy living in extreme poverty in Honduras with his family. Enrique is an older adolescent, Hispanic, poverty economic status, unemployed most times, and is in a relationship with one child. This case study will further look at Enrique’s personal experiences from a young child up to young adulthood and how that has shaped his development has a person from coming from such difficult environmental circumstances. This will also look at the different environmental perspectives in the micro, mezzo and macro level when pertaining to effects on human behavior.