Consequences Of Immigrants In Everyday Illegal By Joanna Derby

Immigrants come to the United States of America for economic opportunities, safer living conditions, etc. When immigrants travel to America, they experience a culture shock and several of them take years before they can feel integrated into society, and sometimes numerous of immigrants never completely adapt. In Everyday Illegal by Joanna Derby some immigrants are illegal and deal with other situations besides being an outsider in a foreign land. There are some negative consequences of parents and/ or children’s undocumented status in families. “At any moment he arrives, he grabs the yellow pages and he says, ‘I am going to call immigration right now, the police.’ I say, ‘call them. What are they going to do to me? Absolutely nothing’. So he doesn’t call. But it is always the same.” (Stuck 59). Isabella is a mother of four children and is constantly abused from the father of her children. She hates the situation but states she still loves him. When one of the parent is undocumented and the other isn’t, they feel dependent on the one with the legal status and feel that they are stuck with them. “Abusers may initially be attracted to unauthorized partners because of this power differential” (stuck 60). …show more content…
Situations like these occur sometimes parents come first to work and send remittances back home. However, when they finally decided to bring their children, they may have started a new family. Illegality challenges and recreates divisions of power in families. Unauthorized members lose power to legal status people. In mixed status families, different opptournties arise for legal and non-legal family members. Those with illegal status feel inferior to others and feel that they are not able to achieve upward mobility. Some examples of these are, illegals are unable to receive government aid to pay for college or are mistreated in the