Poverty And Lack Of Attention

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.

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,”

This characterization gives a bigger meaning to the dangerous journey taken by immigrants to cross these socially constructed borders and brings meaning to immigrants as people, and not just as objects. The film shows the landscape of Honduras, people working in the fields, how children learn in school, soccer playing as a pastime and other visual occurrences that expose the viewer to the daily life of a Honduran citizen. The personification of Yohan being from Honduras, being father of three kids, a husband, a son, and a worker in his community, shows that his identity does not just amount to one negative connotation that is perceived out of ignorance and xenophobic principles. With Yohan as a real-life example, it motivates individuals to see that migrants expose themselves to dangers because of their family and goals. Yohan is not just a number or a name, but a person with a dream and a background—which provides a further representation of immigrants as people. This depiction gives immigrants a contextual background, gives them an identity through their “homeland.”

One’s commitment of immigrating to a new country for a better life indicates that oneself is ready to risk the life given to them by facing many hardships along the way. In the novel Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario, Enrique does exactly that, risking his own life at the age of seventeen in order to reunite with his mother who left him when he was five in order to obtain a better job in the US and give Enrique and his older sister everything she thought they deserved. Nazario utilizes an emotional appeal and metaphors to inform readers of the arduous situations migrants experience on their long and tiring journey in search of a family member and a better future.

“Becoming American” is short film that informs the viewer about the process of immigrants getting jobs in America. Immigrants both gain and lose many aspects of what make them who they are when coming to America. This film teaches many things that people don’t probably know about Hispanic immigrants and allows others to understand what immigrants stand for.

According to Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova, and Jeffrey Hallock, the U.S. has been “the top destination for international migrants since the least 1960, with one fifth of the world’s migrants living there as of 2017.” It is well known to numerous people that hundreds of immigrants travel from all over the world to the United States, but what exactly does it take for many of them to get here? One such author, Sonia Nazario, manages to capture the gruesome journey of one immigrant boy, who like many others, is attempting to make it to the United States. The author reveals the brutal realities and the main reason countless of young children make their way to America. In her novel, Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario utilizes pathos, reputable sources,

This is an incredible story about a young Mexican boy who went through so much to achieve something he never thought he would. The tragedy of his infant sister’s death and an economic crisis in 1970s made him take this life changing chance – to cross the border to the United States. His cousin used to tell him that he would spend all his life working in the fields, Quinones-Hinojosa was ready to accept his fate, he did not know English language, did not have working permit, what else could he expect? So he started working in the fields, picking fruits and vegetables, pulling weeds until his hands were bleeding, hands that perform brain surgeries today. He discovered that being a poor immigrant without an education in a foreign country will make people treat you differently. At this point in his life, he decided to prove to

Enrique’s journey from Honduras to the U.S. unveils the innate loyalty of a loving child to their mother and presents the dangers that a migrant faces on the road with consistent angst; nevertheless, it supports the idea that compassion shown by some strangers can boost the retreating confidence within a person. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” he seeks the beacon of light that all migrants hope to encounter; “El Norte.” Like many children before him, it is the answer to the problems of a hard life. While being hunted down “like animals” leading to “seven futile attempts,” he is

Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and

Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.

Enrique’s Journey is the story of one young man’s odyssey. To demonstrate his journey of immigration, Nazario began a five year investigation into the lives of migrants traveling to the United States from Central America. In order to expose society to her work, she chose to retrace the steps of one child’s journey to freedom. By centering her book around Enrique, she maintains the journalistic freedom to explore questions of immigration without losing hope.

The individuals in the documentary are migrating to the US due to varous reasons ; some migrate because of a job opertunity, others due to threats and insecurity in their home village/town, some due to a social network of friends and family ( tied movers), and finally some are migrating both for economic reasons and because they fear for their safety, a so called "mixed migration" (s, 1).

In The Harvest, it was interesting how the entire make-up of the families was based on being a migrant worker. Every person in the family seemed to already know what their role was going to be as a child, there role in society was already pre mapped out for them. The goal as a family was to have everyone in the United States working together in the fields. The families followed a yearly routine, following the harvesting of different crops around the country. Their travels, their homes, their income, their education, their social life, their human survival all based on the harvesting of the different crops. The views of the world and the individual’s role in life and society is very limited. The one little girl actually said she wasn’t sure that she had a dream. That she had goals in life, but she wasn’t really sure of an actual dream. Me coming from and growing up in the working middle class, my role as a child was to play and receive an education. I knew on some sort of level that my responsibility was going to school, have friends and a social life, and hopefully work and progress in my field of studies. Making a comfortable living and having hopes of an increase of salary. The migrant workers in this video have very different dynamics. There was a large responsibility placed on the young children not even old enough to legally work in the United

Throughout the mid to late 1900s, terrible civil wars ravaged multiple Central American countries—subjecting hundreds of thousands of people to inhumane abuses resulting from the clashes between various cultural, political, and economic groups. People who fled persecution and turmoil in their home countries in hopes of a better life in America often met opposition—not only from the frequently hostile U.S. culture they attempted to integrate into, but also the unrest and tension that followed them from the conflicts in their native countries. Multiple works of literature and film reflect this reality by depicting—psychologically, symbolically, and ethically—how the internal conflicts of these immigrants’ home countries follow individuals as they seek to establish new

Poverty is a problem that the world suffers from, in which case can cause an awareness. There’s people in a current area downtown who are going through poverty. Mark Gongloff states in “ 45 Million Americans Still Stuck Below Poverty Line: Census” “More than 45 million people, or 14.5 percent of all Americans, lived below the poverty…..But the level of poverty is still higher than 12.3 percent in 2006” (2014). There’s so many people, such as children suffer from poverty. Haiti suffers 37% more in poverty than most of countries.