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Furthermore, in most cases, it may seem the United States has a system in which immigrants are not given the chance to form a bright future. In the novel, “Antonio soon found himself settling for jobs that were clearly beneath him. He stood under the baking sun at the on-ramp to the Santa Monica Freeway, selling oranges for two dollars a bag: a dollar fifty for the guy from the produce market, fifty cents for him,” (Tobar, 53). Many of the immigrants that live in the U.S. have little power that allows them to succeed. Some races have benefitted from it more than others. The Cubans, for instance, have had it much easier than most immigrants who have migrated to the United States; whereas, Antonio, a Guatemalan, had trouble finding a stable job that allowed him to sustain himself. In contrast to many other races, many Americans described Cubans as being visitors who represent, “all phases of life and professions, having an excellent level of education… More than half of their families with them, including children brought from Cuba to escape communist indoctrination in the schools,”

As immigrants, parents put much more emphasis on children’s study issues and thus children with immigrant parents are typically imbued with a strong sense of family obligation and ethnic pride, and with the importance of education which may help these children getting better grades. (Shields & Behrman, 2004)

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.

Both parents may work or 1 parent might do 2 job to secure their future

The details on how my family arrived in America have been passed down by various members of my family. The accuracy and detail of these memories have diminished with every retelling. Some of my family arrived in America so long ago that all that remains of their experiences are rumors and stretched truths. As a story gets retold over and over it loses much of its accuracy. While much of my family history relies on this kind of storytelling, there are some in my family who were alive and experienced the challenges faced by immigrants. Though born in the United States, my maternal grandfather, Sebastian Passantino, was very familiar with the hardships of being an immigrant.

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.

Through interviewing my roommate Linda Wang, I have gotten the opportunity of hearing a first-hand account of what it is like being a young immigrant living in the United States. At the age of eight, Linda, along with her father, mother, and aunt, emigrated to America. Linda’s family currently resides in Bayside, Queens and she is a student-athlete on the St. John’s women’s golf team. Linda was kind enough to share her immigration story with me so that I may use it as a manifestation of what life as an immigrant, and the immigration process itself, entails.

The newly incoming immigrant had to change their names in order to assimilate to America. This made them feel like they lost a sense of their identity. To conclude, the newly incoming immigrants confronted many experiences when they came to

33). Gonzales begins to demonstrate how growing up for undocumented immigrants was difficult. Gonzales outlines a three-stage transition to illegality which is integration, discovery, and learning to be illegal. The first stage consists of all the first-hand life stories he has learned about and observed throughout his study which shapes the togetherness or sense of belonging to undocumented youth. The second stage, discovery, takes place during high school years, and how undocumented youths face more direct experiences of exclusion the early exiters and college-goers. They start to understand the meaning of not being legal which brings to stage 3 causing youths to split the two groups in the third stage, as they learn to be

Although hope was often lost by the children of the hardest working immigrants, they began to forget why they came to the U.S. Lost hope in the children are caused because their parents had longer hours at work which meant less time to be around the children. They did this to make ends meet, after all, they are the poorest

I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could

Parents must work long hours and cannot be helped because a family must provide food on the table for their family. In jobs today they will force one to work over time and sometimes not even pay. Look at this example, “ Wal-Mart blames unpaid overtime on individual department managers, insisting that such practices violate company policy” ( Olsson 613). If parents did not have to work such long hours maybe their parents would have time to cook a homemade meal for their children instead of them going out to eat. By parents cooking for their kids the kid learns that that is the norm and will cook for their kids and for generations

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.

1-Mika, a Japanese woman, came from a high socioeconomic status, where her father is a political official and her mother spends the time helping him with political issues. Although she was closer to her grandmother when growing up, her parents’ statuses had an impact in her life. In Japan, her social status was very important and provided her with many benefits such as recognition. After moving to this country, she began to experience a feeling of isolation. The process of adaptation to a new culture is very difficult for immigrants. In the case of Mika, she had to live through this process, deal with the fact that her socioeconomic status had changed, and the language barrier. She also expressed that she did not feel accepted by her classmates