My Family’s Immigration

Mountain was the name given to the united States by the people of chinaware looking for new opportunities. The immigration story on my mothers side of the family begins with my great-grandfathers Journey to the linked States in bet for a better life for himself, his wife, and his four children. At this time, the majority of the population in mainland China was alive in poverty. Being commensurate to herald to America was the dream of many in the hopes they would be able to become wealthy.However, it was a rough start for my great-grandfather. The language barrier was a major obstacle and employment options for foreigners were very limited the only Job available to him was working at a Laundromat. 10 old age later, my great- grandma Joined him in the joined States. Due to the difficulty of getting permission to come to the United States, and the idolatry of not being able to support them In the US, she was forced to leave her children behind in China three daughters and one son.My great- grandmother was a very intelligent woman, and when she was finally able to contact her save she settled in San Francisco, she was disappointed to discover him irking such a low paying Job. At her insistence, together, they firm to open a restaurant, and slowly their dreams of a new future began to emerge. My great- grandparents worked tirelessly to keep their business running. big hours were necessary to support not only themselves but as well as their children In China, who received the money they get shipped overseas.Not indispensablenessing their kids to repeat to hard life they had, they were determined to give their children education. In this way, my grandmother was able to get college educated, which was very rare for women. In 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco. It sparked a series of fires that raged throughout the city for three days which left over half of San Franciscans population homeless but also destroyed office buildings that held the records and birth certificates of many Immigrants. With the loss of these records, officials asked immigrants to report their familys information.Like many other Chinese, my grandparents slightly alter their family history. Instead to reporting they had three daughters and one son, they reported they had four sons. In the China, it was usually the men who came to the United States to work for a better living. By having extra birth certificates, my grandparents were able to sell them to other Immigrants allowing them to come to America, which was very common at the time. Meanwhile, my grandparents became married in China and using her college education, my grandmother became a professor.Then came the heathenish Revolution. This was an era in Chinese history where intellectuals were looked down upon and even persecuted. Since both my grandparents were educated, when they gave birth to my mother and uncle they did want them to grow up being unfairly treated because of their Intellect ual jeopardizeground. My grandparents had hopes of moving to the United S Unnaturally, my great-grandparents and already sold all to the birth certificates to other Chinese immigrants because they never intended to have their children come to America.In fact, they never planned to stay in America in the first place because they intended to move back to China later they saved up enough money. Unfortunately, my great-grandparents never expected China to become communistic country and by moving back they would be stripped of their freedom. At one point, my great-grandparents missed their children so much that they wanted to see them, but because they were American citizens they could not set foot in China. Instead, my grandmother and my great-grandparents decided to meet in Hong Kong.It was a huge risk for my grandmother to take because she was leaving China. During the pagan Revolution, this was viewed as being unfaithful to Chinese government and the person could be subject to pu blic humiliation. deprivation Guards Nevertheless, they were reunited for a period of time. Knowing that there was the possibility that they would never see their daughter again after she returned to China, my great-grandparents pleaded my grandmother to stay in Hong Kong. However, my grandmother knew by doing so she would be regarded as an anti- evolutionist, and her husband would be persecuted for her actions.Once again she was separated from her parents. Years later, my mother knowing how much her mother wanted to be reunited with her parents, study hard to give her mother the chance to come to America. By succeeding academically, she was able to travel to the United States as a foreign college student at the age of 18. After graduating, she became a US citizen and filed the entrance papers that allowed my grandmother to immigrate to the United States. At the age of 65, my grandmothers family was complete again.