Center For Immigration Study

For a moment think of traveling to a new foreign land where you do not know the customs, laws, traditions, or anything else how would you feel? Could you live in this place knowing that you are really never at home? According to center for immigration study web page a recent article by Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota writes, “ The nation 's immigrant (foreign-born) population, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, grew by 4.1 million from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015 — 1.7 million in just the last year.” Our immigration population has grown tremendously over the course of time. These are people that are coming from all around the world to make a new life in America but although these immigrants come …show more content…
She lived in her native country, Mexico for 30 years. All of her family lives in Mexico so when she made her decision to come to the United States she had no one to relay on but herself. She knew nothing about the U.S. but as time passed she became familiarized with the social norms and even put aside some of her own cultures taboos such as talking about sex with her kids in order to assimilate with this new culture. She said that she really wanted to become a part of her new homeland but as hard as she tried she never really felt like she was at home. At the age of 61 she decided to go back home to finally visit her …show more content…
she realized that Mexico was no longer her home. As she walked around the city she realized that she did not fit in she felt as though she was an outsider. She decided to come back to the U.S. and realized that this was also not her home. She no longer knew where she was from. She felt completely out of place. She has lived half her life in Mexico and the other half in the U.S. She no longer know how to identify herself as. She told me that there was a time she was filling out some papers came across a question that asked her what her nationality was. She said that she just broke down and cried because she know what she had to fill out but she also knew deep down within herself she no longer felt she could call herself American or Mexican. In reality she said she has no identity. She does not know who she is. This women shared her story with me and you could see and feel that she came to the U.S. to have a better opportunity but in doing so she lost herself and now feels the reproductions of her decision of coming to the