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The Unit V Essay

The Unit V Essay

Q For this paper, I want you to be the immigrant. I want you to answer two basic questions. First, what would it take to make you pull up your roots and leave home, leave family, leave the U.S.? What sorts of conditions would have to exist for you to do that? Second, how would you cope with living in a foreign land, with people you do not know, with people who resent you being there, and with people who speak a different language than you? In such circumstances, what would you do to keep your sanity?

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Home or one’s native land is not merely a geographical territory where one resides, but carries a much more emotional, non-tangible baggage with it. It is that aspect of one’s existence which accords him a sense of security and identity. In the contemporary times, with the overarching importance of modern nation-states, a sense of belongingness to a particular land which one calls home is extremely crucial in molding one’s identity as a definite citizen of a particular country and by default, entitles him to certain rights and privileges as dished out by the laws of that country. Dislocation, migration or rehabilitation is never a choice happily opted for and is more often than not, is a compulsion resorted to under certain unforeseen circumstances.