My Immigrant Experience

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"Como se siente, ser de los Estados Unidos" ("How does it feel to be from the United States"?). Everyone around me stared in awe, and that is the moment that it clicked for me that most people wanted to leave Peru and come to the United States. It was 4 years after I moved to the United States, and it was the last trip I would take to Peru. Here is one of the most confusing moments of my immigrant experience: in the United States I was from Peru, and in Peru I was now considered to be from the United States. Going back to Peru after having moved is my most memorable travel experience, because my father told me repeatedly that I was going home. But once I arrived, I felt the reality of what moving countries meant. The reality of not knowing

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My Experience As An Immigrant In The USA

Being and immigrant in the USA. All Cuban has many reasons and desires to leave Cuba. For me was an imperative need. My mother was here as well as the rest of the maternal family. So family reunion got me in the path. Additionally I wanted to experience life in a different way and gain in my personal fulfilment, I wanted to study along with the possibility of travel without restrictions to know places, to experience new things. Traveling here was not difficult but it was long and exhausting. I traveled…

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Personal Experience: My Experience As An Immigrant

unique names and foreign pronunciations largely owned by first generation immigrants. Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese. They’re filled with my ethnic background, full of history and familiarity. The crowded hectic noisy mess I love, this move reconnected me back to the culture I once remembered. Hello, Little Saigon. As a first generation immigrant, I was born and raised in Vietnam. Due to a life threatening illness, my mother left everything behind and migrated to the United States wishing to…

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Personal Narrative: My Experience As An Immigrant

the hardships associated with being an immigrant. I come from a Mexican family and I myself was born in Mexico. However, I was brought to the US as a kid. Only being 1 year old at my arrival I definitely struggled adapting to the new environment. Even Though I was small and don't remember the process of crossing the border I do remember the hardships we experienced after our arrival. We were constantly changing houses and my mom found it hard to find a job. My father by the time we arrived had already…

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Why My Family Came To America

My family came to the US for better jobs and learning opportunities because my mom wanted to offer me a better economic life. In my educational experience, the segregation of the immigrants who were not able to speak English and people who were born here and already had an advanced level made me and some other people feel like outcasts.This embarrassment was harmful to the learning process, impairing my process of learning. Studies show that many other immigrant students share the same experiences…

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Ruowei's Immigration Journey

to the sunny and fertile farmlands of California, immigrants arrive with a singular dream: to build a better life for them and their families. However, these immigrants are also careful to preserve their cultural heritage, keeping it afloat in the sea of diversity that is America. Throughout the millions of immigrants that live in America, multiple common themes emerge, each of them echoing the nation’s most key ideals. The experiences of immigrants reflect the American…

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Homeless Immigrant Reflection Paper

at Casa Marianella, an organization that provides food, shelter, and services to homeless immigrants. I have only been able to volunteer one session with the organization so I am most certain that my experiences will change the more I visit. In this paper, I will reflect on what my experiences have been like up to this date as well as how they have affected my views on the social problem of homeless immigrants. When I first arrived at the organization, the executive director, Jennifer Long, gave me…

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The Little Syria Show

delve into the complexity of the colonized identity. Both short films focus on the experiences of immigrants, Pakistani and British Muslims for The Long Goodbye and Syrians for The Little Syria Show, and the struggles of surviving in a society that seemingly stands for the opportunity to pursue success but is at risk of one’s freedoms and life. Both short films highlight how the Western imperial empires profited off, and created the basis of their empires, of the physical labor of the very population…

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Latin America Immigrant Case Study

determine the adversities Latina immigrants go through when they start their lives in the United States . Latina struggle is an underrepresented problem in which information is very limited. Many Latina immigrants come to this country alone and unfamiliar with the life in the United States . Coming to an unfamiliar place and having to start a life with no sort of help or guidance can put so much stress on peoples lives and this is exactly what many immigrant Latinas go through. A big consequence…

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A Trip To Ellis Island

I decided while I was on a very short trip in New York I would go visit Ellis Island. I had never visited Ellis Island; this was actually my first time in New York. Throughout all of my schooling I have learned about Ellis Island but seeing it in real life was a whole new experience. When I arrived at Ellis Island I got to see what the immigrants saw as soon as they got to America which was breath taking. After getting off of the ferry at Ellis Island I got to go inside of the Ellis Island National…

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Angel Island Research Paper

Immigrants who went through Angel Island experienced more hardships than the immigrants going through Ellis Island. Newcomers who traveled through Angel Island faced more challenges than immigrants who went through Ellis Island. “Chinese immigrants were detained and interrogated at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay. U.S. officials hoped to deport as many as possible by asking obscure questions about Chinese villages and family histories that immigrants would have trouble answering…

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