Finding a niche: The Challenge for Young Immigrants

Immigration is (Farlex, 2013) when someone enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. Immigration can occur for various reasons. For example:

•        By wars.
•        By political and economic problems.
•        By lack of jobs.
•        By marriage.
•        Insecurity.
•        For work.

But regardless of the reason, if the change is unexpectedly is more difficult to adapt to the new place. Because they need to understand the culture and context in which they are to know how to behave.

Some challenges they face can be:

§      The mockery of others.
§       The language change, if necessary.
§      Culture change.
§       Discrimination.
§      The idea that everything is new and you have to start again and lack of family and friends.
§      Job search.
§      They will need to do the paperwork for the nationalization.

At the beginning the change will be difficult. Bad moments passed but when they adapt and understand the context and culture everything changes. To fit you need to have courage and not be intimidated by what others say. Also must being open minded to change and different ideas.

One of my best friends of school was an immigrant from Colombia she has to come to Costa Rica because their parents need it. In this case the change was not to strong. But she told me that she has to be careful with her vocabulary because some words has a different meaning here than in Colombia. After finishing school her family moved to Texas and there she has to work hard to be accepted. She told me that at the beginning it was difficult but she get it.

Glossary

• Unique: special.
• Native tongue: first language.
• Flourishing: developing well
•  Mainstream: the common way of thinking or acting.
• Tight-knit: close, connected.
•  Assimilate: adapt.
•  Suppressed: removed from.
•   Relieved: happy that you don’t have to worry about something.
•   Bone up on: review.
•   Intimidating: frightening.
•   Uprooted: not allowed to express.
•  Set apart: make someone or something different.
• Interpret: To offer an explanation, To serve as an interpreter for speakers of different languages.
• Niche:  A place hat you fit in.
•  Support: To bear the weight of, especially from below.
•  Blend in: act in similar way
• Deal with: do what is necessary to solve a problem.
•  Encouragement: praise, support.
• Dialect: a distinct variety of language.
•  Punishment: something that is done to make someone suffer. 

Grammar

Present Progressive and Simple Present

Present progressive is used to describe something that is happening right now.

Simple present is used to describe a general fact or habit.

The Present progressive can be used with the simple present to describe a present action that is continuing while another present action takes places.

The simple present is also used with non-action verbs to refer to states that are true at the moment of speaking.

Past Progressive and Simple Past

The past progressive is used to describe an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past.

The simple past is used to describe an action that was completed in the past.

The past progressive is used with the simple past to describe one action that was interrupted by another action.

The simple past is used to describe two actions that happened in a sequence, one after another.

Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive

The present perfect and present perfect progressive are used to talk about things that started in the past, continue to the present, and may continue in the future.

The present perfect is used to talk about things that happened:

ü  At an unspecified time in the past.
ü  More than one time in the past.

Bibliography

Farlex. (2013). the free dictionery . Retrieved from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

 Ferre, T., & Sanabria, K. (2009). overload informtion. In T. Ferre, & K. Sanabria, north star 4 (pp. 169-192). USA: Pearson Longman.