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Riding the Non-Stop Immigration Roller Coaster (A True Story)

J. C. Malone offers an experience-based story by a professional journalist and writer who recently emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Michigan. This poignant tale of his job-search odyssey is a testament to the human toll of the process, caused by anti-immigrant sentiments in the receiving society and by the particularities of U. S. racism–even in the case of immigrants who bring great human and social resources. He also adds touches of humor to this story of the sacrifices made by entire generations of immigrants so that their children may live the “American Dream.”

immigrants; Dominican Republic; Latinas-Latinos; journalists; job hunting

Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 3 (1996): 86-99