Family History Project Pt. 3 and Pt.4

1. FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT
PT. 3 AND PT.4
Angel Ramirez
Geography-10
2015

2. INTERVIEW FROM MY PARENTS

3. TERMS
- Point of Entry - Economic Sector
- Waves of Immigration - Climate
- Push Factors - Chain migration
- Pull Factors - Language Barrier
- Migrated - Assimilation
- Urban
- Rural
- Poverty

4. POINT OF ENTRY
• The point of entry for my parents was crossing the U.S and Mexican
Border, illegally; in 1975.

5. WAVES OF IMMIGRATION
• My parents are part of the 4th wave of immigration (1975).

6. PUSH FACTORS AND PULL FACTORS
• Both of my parents wanted a well suitable life for themselves and for their
children. The push factors that made them migrate to the U.S. were
unstable job security, safety, and poverty.
• They both wanted to come U.S because of the Pull factors like safety,
better income, education for their children, and stability.

7. MIGRATED
• My mother and father migrated from Guanajuato, Mexico to
Corona, CA.

8. URBAN AND RURAL
• My parents came from an urban part of Guanajuato, Mexico to a rural
part, located in Corona, California, full of flat farmland.

9. POVERTY
• Poverty was one of the biggest struggles for my parents while living
in Guanajuato, Mexico. They struggled less as they started to earn
more money in the U.S.

10. ECONOMIC SECTOR
• The first job my parents worked was in the strawberry fields in
Corona; which would be consider the Primary Economic Sector.

11. CLIMATE
• The weather conditions in Guanajuato, Mexico can be really cold as
well as hot for long periods of the year.
• Climate in California was just perfect for my parents.

12. CHAIN MIGRATION
• Once my parents have established a good location to live, they started
to write to some of their family member and some of them moved
because of the good things they wrote about.

13. LANGUAGE BARRIER
• The language barrier was difficult for my parents. They would learn
English from people they spoke to at work, their children and classes
they would take; taught at an elementary school at night for non-
English speakers

14. ASSIMILATION
• My parents would start to do more “American” things like going out
to eat as a family with my two older brothers
• They would make it a tradition to go out and eat at least once a month
together.

15. PART 4 : MAP