Thread: What happens back home

What Happens Back Home.
by Mark Derewicz


We think we know their stories. They are Mexican immigrants here to earn money to support families back home. Carolina anthropologist Hannah Gill understands this, but she’s more interested in the details behind the dollar signs. So after earning a doctorate from Oxford in anthropology and Latin American migration, she returned to her native North Carolina to research the state’s burgeoning immigrant population. She found a new way to listen to immigrants’ issues, and learned that what happens back home is just as important as what happens here.

Her first stop was El Centro Latino, an advocacy and service center in Carrboro. Gill stands out as a volunteer, but she speaks fluent Spanish and wants to help. Her goal was to gain trust and then tell migrants about her oral history project — a book to be published in their own voices. She met dozens of people before spotting a trend.

“Celaya, Celaya, everyone was from Celaya,â€

So after earning a doctorate from Oxford in anthropology and Latin American migration

WTF.. they have a now have a Doctorate in Illegal Immigration...

What a warm and fuzzy story what crap

[quote]Another told Gill, “Some men change a lot. There are many who don’t come back, many who never call. They don’t communicate. They leave their families here, their wives. They find new families and stay.â€