2. Post a list of relevant historical or cultural facts about the setting of your family story (government, world events, popular culture, religious events, etc.)
What stands out to you about the historical or cultural context of your family story?
Before starting this project and doing the historical and cultural context assignment, I didn't know my family had so many different stories that had to do with things like health, and war, and immigration. I didn't know my grandpa was a general in the Salvadoran army. I didn't know that my grandma died because she got a stroke after getting her leg amputated, and so many other things. This project has helped me learn a lot more stories about my family. The story of my family I decided to write about was the immigration of parents to the US in the 1980's. What stood out to me about the historical or cultural context of my family's immigration in the 1980's was that in the 1980's in the US the president and others were trying to do an amnesty to give illegal people papers so they would become legal. Because my parents immigrated around that time they were able to become legal.
New York Times article from the 1980's talking about the amnesty and trying to give illegal people papers:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/05/us/facts-on-amnesty-plan-for-illegal-aliens-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
What stands out to you about the setting of the story?
I still don't really have a setting to my story. I am thinking of combining my mom and dad's immigration stories. My dad immigrated here from Mexico and my mom immigrated hre from El Salvador, but in order to immigrate to the US she had to move to Mexico first. So the setting of my story will mostly be in Mexico (Baja California) and California (San Francisco and Cochella). What stands out to me about the setting of my story was that during the early 1980's there was an economic crisis in Mexico causing many Hispanics to immigrate to the US for a better life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Mexico#1982_crisis_and_recovery
What about the historical or cultural setting seems most relevant to your story?
Well as I was saying, there was an economic crisis in Mexico in the early 1980's, causing a lot of Hipanics to immigrate to the US. One of the reasons my dad immigrated to the US around that time because of the corruption in Mexico at that time, which was caused by the economic crisis. The situation in the US at that time, was pretty good and that made people come to the US.
-My dad immigrated from Mexico to the USA a couple of times
-Back in the 1970's and 1980's it was easier so he would go in to the US, then go back to Ensenada then cross again until he became a legal resident later on in the late 1980's
-The first time he came to the US was when he was about 17, in 1971, and then he went back to Ensenada, then returned to the US to stay here in 1981
-My mom immigrated from El Salvador with her brothers to the USA (San Francisco) in 1984, right after her mom died
-She first came to Mexico, Tijuana and then she crossed to the US
-Economic situation of Mexico in the 1980's (http://www.econ.umn.edu/~tkehoe/papers/ChileMexico.pdf )
-"At the beginning of the 1980s, Mexico’s economy was teetering, shaken by the nation's worst recession since the 1930s. In 1982, the peso was devalued repeatedly during the country’s economic crisis. High unemployment pushed more migrants to find work in the United States." (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mexico704/history/timeline.html )
-Newspaper article talking about "illegal aliens" and how they were trying to give them papers at that time, which was how my parents became legal in this country (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/05/us/facts-on-amnesty-plan-for-illegal-aliens-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm)
-Newspaper article about the increase of Hispanics immigrating to the US during the 1980's (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/11/us/hispanic-population-growing-5-times-as-fast-as-rest-of-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm )
-They met in San Francisco; they met because they had both immigrated to the same place around the same time (1980's)
-Immigration to the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States )
-Talks about immigration and the immigration rates from 1700-1998 (http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/cohn.immigration.us )
-Contains links to many articles about immigration (http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/301/Immigration-Laws-Policies-Since-1980s.html )
-Once they had both lived in San Francisco for a few years they moved back to Mexico for about 12 years and then they came back to San Francisco and then we moved to San Diego
-Immigration at that time was very common; it was also a lot easier than it is to get to the US now
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1980%E2%80%931991)
(http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/05/us/facts-on-amnesty-plan-for-illegal-aliens-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm)
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