Immigration Interviews

This year we have been working on an Immigration Study which helped us talk about the Industrial Revolution, The Great Migration, and modern immigration. To learn more, we are interviewing people who have immigrated to the United States and sharing their stories through writing. We have been asking them a lot of questions about how they left their home country, why, and what their emotions were. Before we started doing the interviews we prepared questions and practiced (here are some of the questions). We also made a plan. When we were talking with our interviewee we took notes about their answers. After the interview we wrote a nonfiction story about them and the country that they came from. These aren’t boring stories because we got to add our own touches.

Some of the people we interviewed had some amazing stories. Like one one of the people left their home country when they were 11. Sometimes, people got separated from their families. Some people came from Canada, Ethiopia, Mexico, China, Poland, and Colombia to name a few. Many people missed a lot from their home country. They missed their family, friends, traditions, food, and culture.

It is important for us to hear these stories so that we can understand what others have been through and what it was like. There are push and pull factors that make people move. Push factors are things like religion. When people do not feel safe in their country they need to move to another country and find a new home. A pull factor is some things that brings people to a country like more space, more food, and more possibilities for a better future. But once people are here they have to keep working hard because it is not easy to become a legal citizen. It takes a long time!

By Grace, Keane, Dylan, Ella, Olive, Paloma, Hailey

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