Ap Human Geo Immigrant Interview Essay
Juan Carlos Garciga is a Cuban-American that lives with his family in Naples, Florida. Juan immigrated from Cuba with his family back on the twenty-second of June in 2002. Juan is forty-six years old and is married to Tania Garciga. Their family also consists of their two children and some other family members that came to America through chain migration. The reason I choose to interview Juan is simply because he is my father.
Juan was born in Havana, Cuba in April 19th 1969. He emigrated to the United States of America in 2002. His date of arrival was on the twenty-second of June. At the time he was only thirty-three years old. When he was born he remembers everything being fine, there was an abundance of food, the buildings were refined, the neighbors were considered to be your family, and the culture was very strongly developed and interconnected everyone. Families at that time in Cuba would live within that same areas to stay nearby. When he was a kid everything was good in his house. He had enough food, clothing, and a nice built home in which his mother, his sister, him, and his step-father lived. He strongly misses the family he has left behind in Cuba as the…show more content… Juan traveled from Havana, Cuba to Miami, Florida through airplane. From there he was driven by car to Naples, Florida where he lives to this day with his family. Juan emigrated from Cuba and immigrated into the United States because of specific push and pull factors that caused him to decide which area would be better off for him to live. The type of migration that Juan experienced is one that I consider odd. It wasn’t necessarily a forced migration although the Cuban migration was oppressing everyone that did not agree with them and it was in a way voluntary because they could have decided to have stayed instead of leaving to
