Miles talks about how immigrants come to the USA for not only safety and financial issues but also for their families back home. Miles illustrates this through the story of an Ecuadorian. She talks about the challenges the immigrants face and the "questions of identity they struggle with." Even thought the Vicente works longs hours he is unable to pay his debts and can hardly send money back to his family. His family back home worries about him and fear that he might become too American. It was hard for Vicente to adjust to the US. He had to learn English, which is very difficult is you have spoken a different language through out your life. He had buy a car since he got harassed in the subway.
This article is interesting but not surprising to me. My parents left their country so we can have a better life and education in the states. They miss their family a lot and I have seen them hurt when they couldn't go home to meet a sick family person. However, now my parents go to India 2-3 times a year. My brother and I hardly go because we don't like the environment there.
Shandy talks about the way immigrants send money back to their country. According to Shandy people that receive money in their home country are moving to cities, where it is easier to get the transfer. She also thinks remittance are not just the transfer of wealth between people, but also serves to maintain ties of reciprocity within families separated by warfare and emigrants.
Zenner talks about how it is hard to distinguish between rural and urban since telecommunications are found throughout the world. Zenner explores what distinction meant in the recent past and what it may mean today.
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