Age: Three and a half
Sex: Male
Home Country: Michocan, Mexico
Push factors: The family had already planned to come to the U.S before he was born. Poverty and hunger as well.
Pull factors: He had family members already in the United States, and grandparents had been going back and forth from Mexico back to the U.S. His Parents also saw that there were job opportunities and shelter for the family, economic stability
Quotes:
This is the first part.
"I was born in Michoacan, Mexico which is in the southern western part of Mexico on the pacific coast and i was brought to the U.S. when i was three and a half years old by my parents but my parents were actually here before me and my great grandparents were going back and forth so its interesting that way. It was a very financial experience that i had. I speak spanish fluently, english of course and a little bit of french ,I could read it more than i could speak it"
second part:
"i think its worth mencioning that i was first generation, i'm the first person in my familyfrom both sides to go to college"
I was very lucky that my parents back in the years were still able to arrange their papers really soon so i was only undocumented for three years"
when reyna interviewed some of them (when they were both undergrads)
"compadre has two ons that kind who are the same asge as me and my brother right. kind of looks like us,not alot but we were from a very very very poor town in Mexico. My family was a very hard working class. So we borrowed the clothes from these two kids who looked like us and their greencard and everything. we got to the borderand we are suppose to say who we are. i think my name was oscar or something and i couldn't remember what my name was. So the immigration official asked me what is your name and i looked up to my dad and said 'whats my name' so i dont know why that guy let us through. maybe he felt sorry or something. ... So going to college for me wasnt difficult...but there are still challenges being a first generation...I rarely call myself a chicano because a chicano is more like a political consiousness... "
"the push pull factor occurs way long before we are born. it happens even before our parents meet and decide to have kids and alot of push pull factors that happens within immigrants in particular are politcal factors that have nothing to do with our families sure my family was really really poor... and like sure we could have died like my grandparents brothers and sisters. But thats not really the push-push factor. Its the fact the economy that my parents saw that they could have a job there. so that was beyond my parents..."
Grandparents came here first as Brazeros to work in the fields.
"The push-pull factors is more than just what your family needs,its more you are at and people run where there is money and shelter..."
People confused him anything but a student.
Family was very conservitive and didn't support him with going to college because believed that it was not necessary.
Other Quotes
"...Happened before we're even born..."
"Political factors."
"Being in college is one of the best political acts that i can commit."
"Universities would think a mexican wasn't from the school. They would speak English, thinking I wouldn't understand. They thought I was anything, but mexican.
"I love LA"
