As to the question Why Migration? On needs to take into consideration not just the economics, poverty, jobs, or unemployment of the country that people are coming from but one needs to go and see the overall affect that the situation of there home country brings to them and there family. In the article by Saskia Sassen “Why Migration”, it details why people are migrating and the main factor is the economy of the home country and its jobs. The article details the numbers of migrants leaving there country to come to the United States. When considering the father and the mother from Trinidad they did take into consideration the crime rate and the economical situation of there country. The thing is that it goes deeper than that. When your future is in jeopardy it is one thing but when you see that the future of your children is insecure as a parent one will do anything to make sure they have a decent life even if it means migrating ones’ family with an unsecured grasp of the future but with a dream and an idea of how life should be for there family.

            There is a sense of doubt and fear in the eyes of many Americans when it comes to new migrants or migrants in general. They fear that they will take the “American” jobs from the Americans them selves. In the article by Charles S. Clark titled “The New Immigrants” it talks about how people in America have different ideas of how the process of the immigrant really is. The reality is sometimes totally different. Referring to the mother and father they had to come here and struggle like many immigrants. They are educated people and many times people in the US think that most of the immigrants are uneducated and have no class. In contrary the father and the mother have great jobs and tons of class.

            In a sense the migration process can be seen as a poetic entity in itself. When the father saw the situation in his home country he immediately saw that it was going to decline even farther. Then he struggled when coming to this country as a romantic story where he does it for the love of the family. The mother did the same as well. They had to go through situations that racism and classism was expressed to them first hand. Migration can be seen as a poetic process and a very good example is that of Amitava Kumar, in her article “Passport Photos” one can imagine the process by reading the examples expressed by this author when it is depicted the trouble and struggle of one portraying themselves in there native tongue or just being accepted and not put into a category which limits us as human beings.

            We many times ignore the immigrant and judge them by the way they speak or the way they act. We are ignorant to many cultures and many times we also ignore the fact that they are rich and have a lot to offer. The father and the mother were brought up with a thick and beautiful culture in which they portray it in the way they speak and treat others. They are very respectful and one can say it is a high-class culture they share. People many times overlook this and judge them by the skin color. This reminds me of a book we read called Voyages by Cathy A. Small, it was about how migrants transitioned from Tonga to the US. In the book it describes ways that they express there culture and this is many times not accepted by the people in the US.