Migrating to the United States of America- new life and struggles

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“Los Que Se Fueron: Interviews Exploring the New Migration,” Andrea González-Ramírez

 

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This article speaks of boricuas who decided to leave Puerto Rico to explore life in the United States. Since Puerto Ricans are American citizens, it wass easier for them to move to the United States than any other Latin culture in the world.  Andrea Gonzalez Ramirez explains how they also had to go through “immigrant experiences”. They had to struggle with language barriers and other changes in their “new world”.  Ramirez made a blog about the interviews she took of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to the United States. She was fascinated about what she heard, their transition and the processes of adapting.

 

            This article can pretty much apply to anyone coming into the United States. Whether you speak Spanish, French, Dutch, Chinese or any other language and come from another country. The transition is always going to be tough on anyone immigrating to the United States.  On a positive note, the United States is so diverse that those immigrants are able to adapt and find people from their own countries who have struggled and are willing to help them adjust in this country. The immigrants in this country also struggled looking for work and a decent place to live, therefore, they can relate and assist the new immigrants.

 

            When my maternal grandparents came to the United States in the 1960’s from Colombia, they struggled. They only had one family member here who had situated herself in Queens, New York. My grandparents had to sleep and live in a cramped apartment with many other people until they were able to find their own house. They all lived on one income until each one was able to find a job. I was told that the Colombian people who lived in that neighborhood, all looked out for one another and were recommended jobs, apartments, means of obtaining food and other resources on how to live comfortably in this country.

 

On the other hand, my paternal grandparents came to the United States from Puerto Rico in the early 1960’s, when they were children. My paternal grandmother already had many family members living in the Bronx, New York. Therefore, she did not need to adapt as much. Since she was young, she went to elementary school in the United States and found her friends there. It is more difficult when you are an adult and must leave everything behind in the country you were born in, in order to have a better life.

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