While the overall apprehension of immigrants unlawfully entering the U.S. And it is an issue whose magnitude and urgency has grown in the past year. high schools, who must live in the shadows. It is the story of the 65,000 undocumented students that graduate each year from U.S. The original version is among the most read books in colleges – required reading for college freshman and a text that has helped facilitate discussion about one of the most critical issues of our time.ĮNRIQUE’S JOURNEY is not just the story of a boy in search of his mother, or of one family's struggles to migrate to the U.S.
The new version of the book is among the first non-fiction award-winning works to be written for younger readers - junior high students and reluctant readers in high school - and specifically aimed at complementing the national Common Core curriculum that requires teaching more literary non-fiction and that schools must adopt in the coming year. I wanted to thank you for blogging about ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY and alert you that a new version, targeted to young readers, will be published August 27, 2013. This is, really, a story about the choices mothers make (and the ending shows even more clearly what she thinks about it). But the book really zeroes in on motherhood.
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The “promised land” is a very rough place, full of fear, drug and alcohol abuse, low wages, and uncertainty. In particular, Nazario examines the negative repercussions of migration. Then Enrique’s journey continues, including dealing with his own girlfriend and childm and the book pulls no punches. And yet there are moments of kindness, especially in Veracruz, where people who live near the tracks-of course very poor themselves-throw gifts up onto the trains for the migrants:Ī stooped woman, María Luisa Mora Martín, more than a hundred years old, who was reduced to eating the bark of her plantain tree during the Mexican Revolution, forces her knotted hands to fill bags with tortillas, beans, and salsa so her daughter, Soledad Vásquez, seventy, can run down a rocky slope and heave them onto a train (p. The first 100 pages focus on Honduras, Guatemala and Chiapas, especially the truly mind blowing corruption and violence that characterizes the immigrant trip up into Mexico. It has the same sense of a trail of tragedy. This sort of beginning-to-end travel story reminded me of Eugene Nelson’s Bracero, a fairly obscure novel I stumbled across and greatly enjoyed, which depicted the travails of an indigenous man in Mexico trying to become a bracero in the 1950s. For in the end, these separations almost always end badly (p. Enrique is a young Honduran who wants to find his mother in North Carolina I was especially struck by the argument she makes at the outset, which shows this is not a typical migrant story: (hence the UNC Charlotte selection).įor Latina mothers coming to the United States, my hope is that they will understand the full consequences of leaving their children behind and make better-informed decisions. Nazario focuses on motherhood, not only the reasons why mothers leave their children to come to the U.S., but also the effects of separation. It is this year’s choice by UNC Charlotte for first year students. I read Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey and put it on the side bar.
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