“Connecticut has a sizable community of immigrants, with many hailing from India and Jamaica. About 15 percent of Connecticut residents were born in another country, and 16 percent of residents are native-born Americans who have at least one immigrant parent. Immigrants support Connecticut’s economy across sectors, comprising nearly one-third of all computer and math sciences employees and more than two-fifths of residents working in cleaning and maintenance of building and grounds. As neighbors, business owners, taxpayers, and workers, immigrants are an integral part of Connecticut’s diverse and thriving communities and make extensive contributions that benefit all.” American Immigration Council is an amazing resource for understanding immigration patterns in CT on a hollistic level." Source
“Latino Connecticut: A Call Action is a Policy Blueprint created by the Hispanic Federation to highlight how the State of Connecticut could be more inclusive to the Latino Community. This body of work highlights a section regarding immigration and how undocumented Latinos should be integrated into the community by receiving all of the resources to become a citizen and be a productive member of the community." Source
Macho!
Roberto Garcia is only seventeen, but he already has big dreams of making his fortune, building a family, and gaining the respect of his community. With ambition to burn and a passion to prove his manhood, Roberto takes the dangerous journey north, crossing the Mexican border to pick fruit in the "golden fields" of California. It is said that a good man can make more money there in a week than in an entire year in the mountains of Michoacán, his home.
Knitting the Fog by Claudia D Hernadez
Seven-year-old Claudia wakes up one day to find her mother gone, having left for the United States to flee domestic abuse and pursue economic prosperity. Claudia and her two older sisters are taken in by their great aunt and their grandmother, their father no longer in the picture. Three years later, her mother returns for her daughters, and the family begins the month-long journey to El Norte. But in Los Angeles, Claudia has trouble assimilating: she doesn’t speak English, and her Spanish sticks out as “weird” in their primarily Mexican neighborhood.
When I was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
This autobiography is a great vehicle for telling the story of the journey and adjustment that so many people experience when coming to the United States. This story follows a young girl, Esmeralda, as she and her mother migrate to New York. tell different stories of people in the Latinx community.
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
These poems recall and are rooted in the experiences of a nine-year-old boy traveling alone for thousands of miles and confronting everywhere the realities of borderland politics, racism, and economic injustice. Calling into question the concept of the American Dream, Zamora reimagines home, fusing music and memory to address the quandaries that tear families apart and inspire the building of lives anew.