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 United States in search for a better life for himself, his wife, and his four children. At this time, the majority of the population in China was living in poverty. Being able to come to America was the hallucination of many in the hopes they would be able to force wealthy.However, it was a hard-bitten start for my great-grandfather. The language barrier was a major obstacle and antic options for alieners were really limited the only Job available to him was working at a Laundromat. 10 years later, my great- granny knot Joined him in the United States. receivable to the difficulty of getting permission to come to the United States, and the fear of non being able to support them In the US, she was forced to leave her children basis in China three girls and one son. My great- grandmother was a very intelligent woman, and when she was finally able to contact her husband she settled in San Francisco, she was disappointed to discover him irking such a low paying Job. At her insistence, together, they decided to open a restaurant, and slowly their dreams of a new in store(predicate) began to emerge. My great- grandparents worked tirelessly to keep their business running. Long hours were necessary to support not only themselves but also their children In China, who received the money they pull in shipped overseas.Not wanting 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 wo men. In 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco. It sparked a series of fires that raged throughout the urban center for three days which left over half of San Franciscans population homeless person but also destroyed office buildings that held the records and birth certificates of many Immigrants. With the leaving of these records, officials asked immigrants to report their familys information.Like many other Chinese, my grandparents slightly altered their family history. Instead to reportage 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(prenominal) my grandparents were educated, when they gave birth to my mother and uncle they did want them to grow up being below the belt treated because of their Intellectual background. My grandparents had hopes of moving to the United S Unnaturally, my great-grandparents and already exchange all to the birth certificates to other Chinese immigrants because they never intended to imbibe 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 communist country and by moving back they would be bare(a) of their freedom. At one point, my great-grandparents missed their children so much that they wanted to project 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 Cultural Revolution, this was viewed as being unfaithful to Chinese gov ernment and the person could be subject to public humiliation. Red 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 unconnected from her parents. Years later, my mother knowing how much her mother wanted to be reunited with her parents, studied 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 grant papers that allowed my grandmother to immigrate to the United States. At the age of 65, my grandmothers family was murder again.