Immigrant: Personal Narrative Analysis

My history alines with that of a long time immigrant, my grandparents came from two different worlds. My grandfather’s parents migrated from Spain around the time when war was happening around the world. His mother moved to Mexico, seeking a better future for her son, and eventually my grandfather met my grandmother. The mother of my grandmother on the other hand was indigenous, they lived in Mexico for generations. My grandmother was raised hearing stories from her grandmother, of when they would have to hide in caves because the Mexican army would come and kick them out of their land and steal their food. As the story goes, my great-great-grandmother had to continually search for a way to survive in rural Mexico because she had no money …show more content…
Eventually, my grandmother would be stuck with nine children alone in Mexico, because my grandfather would not take care of any of them nor provide financially for them. Until recently I learned my grandmother was a victim of emotional abuse for years. An example of this is my grandfather took my grandmother from her mother, threatening to kill her family if she didn’t come with him. Unfortunately even today my grandfather continually disrespects my grandmother calling her foul names, if something does not go his way, but she refuses to leave him. My mother later on was also a victim of domestic abuse by the father of her second child, who would continually hit her, until one day she decided to walk away after several years. Its fair to say that my research project emerges from my own history with dealing with domestic violence within my …show more content…
The facts speak for themselves, Native women experience rates of violent victimization double than that among all women, they experience it at a higher rate than any other U.S. population. These facts are staggering but they’re a sad reality for many Native women. Tribal law and regular law often create conflict for women who want to tell on those who assaulted them because many laws do not coordinate with each other. Another important fact is that sometimes tribes do not let regular law enforcement get involved within their tribal affairs, making it more difficult to find justice for victims. The fact that this is a reality for so many people, created the motivation for me to go into indigenous