Immigration and Family

 

 

This week in my Family Relations class we had a very interesting discussion concerning the effects that immigration has on family. And from someone as myself who isn’t really educated in this kind of topic it was really interesting to hear some perspectives from my peers and professor but learning about what it would be like immigrating to this country and the effects it has on families everywhere. We talked about the transition people can go through with their family and being separated from family can take a toll on families immigrating to this country. Though in the long run it will be better for that family to leave, but the heartache and difficult time a family can have when transitioning into the new environment they are in and the process to get there. When transitioning into a new country it can take a toll on a family when being separated from family members for periods of time and difficulties of transitioning into a new country. 

    When it comes to the process of moving to a different country, sometimes it means family members splitting up for long periods of time. As someone who’s family has lived in the United States their entire lives, I’ve never really thought about it. But when people move to this country it's an easy process and it’s a long process as well. For example, in many cases when a family decides to make the move to the United States, usually the father will go first and work until there is enough money for the rest of his family to come over to the United States. And it can take about 1-3 years for enough money to be saved up, because unfortunately there are only so many jobs that people will give to immigrants. Even then many of them are paid very little and usually the father is also sending money back home to help his family, to support himself to live and for the rest to save up for his family. Also, if the family is trying to come in legally the wait can be up to 10 years. And because the family is separated for such a long time it can take a toll on a marriage and it can be hard on children to be separated from parents for an extended amount of time. And because the family has been separated for a long time the family back home probably have had to pick on some roles that they didn’t have before. For example, if there's a son they might step up and be the “man” of the household or even the mother might take up the responsibility of being the mother and the father. So, when the family is reunited everyone has to readjust to what roles in the family that they have to take.

But when a family finally arrives in the new country even though they are out of danger from crossing the border the rest isn’t a breeze they now have to adjust to their new home. When a family comes to a new country they now have to learn to adjust to their new life. Which can mean a lot of things. It could be adjusting to a new language, school, jobs, and family. One thing that I found to be very interesting that we talked about in class while discussing this was that when parents are separated it becomes an adjustment to the whole family. For example, if the dad has been separated from the family for about a year for the wife and kids in a way might gain some resentment towards the other parent. Which can create somewhat of a divide within the family, maybe with some kids picking one parent's side more because they’ve spent all that time with that parent. 

Overall, I thought this discussion in class was very interesting cause when it comes to immigration I’m not very educated on this topic. So, I thought it was good to be able to see the different perspectives within these kinds of issues. And the effects that it has on a family as a whole. That these kinds of decisions will always be hard on a family, and it made me empathetic to the people that were willing to sacrifice too much to be able to live in our country. 

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