Pat Mora expresses through the poem Immigrants. The parents are afraid and preoccupied about how their children will face this new live that awaits them and how the American society will accept them, if they do. The work portrays many images that are relevant to assimilation for example when the parent says “buy them blonde dolls that blink blue eyes or a football and tiny cleats before the baby can even walk” and “speak to them in thick English, hallo, babe, hallo.” (Mora, lines 4-8) referring to the way Americans are and how they should be and act in order to fit in and be accepted by the American society.
Jacob Vigdor a professor at Duke University, developed three categories of assimilation, civic, cultural, and economic. Where Latino
Jacob Vigdor a professor at Duke University, developed three categories of assimilation, civic, cultural, and economic. Where Latino