Albana Gallari Research Paper

Albana Gallari is an Albanian Immigrant who moved to the United States on February 16, 1997. Gallari was born in communist Albania on March 4, 1974. Gallari lived under the reign of Communist Dictator Enver Hoxha throughout her early life. Gallari grew up poor with little to eat besides bread and cheese and had almost no material possessions besides 3 pairs of clothes along with 3 tattered dolls. Throughout her early life her mother took care of her alongside her job of working in a government factory and her father was a livestock veterinarian. Gallari faintly remembers going to her friend's house on Sundays to watch cartoons due to her family being too poor to afford a television. After the communist regime had fallen in 1992, Gallari became a teacher for her first …show more content…
Her Husband had previously defected to Greece in 1989 while in the communist Albanian army and after living in Greece for two years, he was given the choice to be able to move to the U.S by a Catholic Church. He accepted the offer in search of more opportunities not available to him in Greece. He later returned from the United States to visit family in Albania and he married Gallari. Her husband returned to the U.S and after becoming pregnant with her first son, Gallari moved to the U.S to join her husband while there was mass civil unrest unraveling in Albania. Upon moving to the U.S, the people were surprisingly very friendly which is something Gallari did not suspect due to the more serious attitude from the people living in her home country. Gallari found it difficult to acquire a job due to being pregnant and lacking the necessary english skills. Despite this she admired the opportunities available in the U.S and found a job wiping down tables at a restaurant. In the following years she gave birth to two children and went on to community college to receive an associates degree in accounting. After she had greatly improved her English speaking ability, her husband and her opened up a