Inmigrant Quotes

“Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

“Before you ask other people to respect the borders of the West, ask yourself if the West has ever respected anybody else's border.”
― Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto

“One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States.”
― Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

“Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her. It is for them she is leaving, she tells herself, but still she feels guilty.”
― Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey