From the camp to the town: My family’s experience on migration

 From the camp to the town: My family’s experience on migration 

By Anahi Altamirano

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17 November 2021

Hello, my name is Anahi and I am practically a simple, normal teenager from the town I live in, Quito. Every day I go to school 📕, study📐, have lunch🍛, play video games👾, read a little bit📚, and go to sleep😴. I live in a busy town; therefore, I am used to the neon lights in the buildings, the traffic sounds coming through my window every night, and the stressful vibe this town’s people have. But recently I discovered these things aren’t common for everyone.

Note: Me being shocked like :O



Last week I was sitting in my study room doing some math homework when my grandpa came in and offered me juice and cookies, I accepted and while I ate the cookies, he started telling me a story about the camp we used to live in. At the beginning I didn’t care much but eventually he got to the point of my family moving to the city we live in now, I thought that was pretty interesting as he described the moving as “chaotic but necessary”, so I decided to ask him how this migration affected our family. He told me he was 19 when he and my grandma moved here, they didn’t have family or friends in this town, and life was hard at the beginning. I remember him specifically telling me that he had been worried about my granny’s health because she had always been used to live and work in the camp but when they moved, she had to change her entire lifestyle and it affected her mentally and physically. Despite that, my grandpa told me he wouldn’t change a thing, cus he loves the family and life he has nowadays.

Note: Me and my grandpa UwU


When he finished the story and left, I was shocked. For some reason I had never thought of my family’s moving from the camp to the city as migration, but it had always been, so I decided to write a blog entry about the benefits and disadvantages my family faced when they migrated.




First of all, we’ll get the negatives about migrating to a city from a rural area out of the way

Based on all the anecdotes my family has told me throughout my childhood, I have concluded that one of the main disadvantages families face when migrating from a rural area to a city is probably the difference of environments, not only natural environments such as forests, camps, and lakes, but also social environments like jobs, schools, entertainment centers, etc. This change of environment hit my family back in the day, as they were used to open spaces with few people that knew each other, but when they moved to the city, they had to go to crowded places in where they didn’t know anyone.



Also, one of the main negative points of moving to the city for my family were the job opportunities. Neither of my grandparents had finished school when they moved here, and as you may expect, it was difficult for them to find a job. Luckily, my grandfather knew how to drive and could make a living out of that.



And now the good stuff about migrating :D

There are many advantages of migrating to a town. But according to my grandpa the main advantage and the reason why he migrated was that he wanted a better future for his family. Migration can be difficult for the person who migrates, adaptability is important, as well as strength, to overcome all the challenges you may face. Yet, the biggest advantage about migration is that for your future descendant’s life will probably be much easier than it was for you, people who migrate want to improve their own lifestyle, but they are also seeking for more, they want a future for their sons and even their grandsons.

As you can see, migrating is a difficult thing to do, but the advantages it has for future generations totally overcomes the disadvantages of facing a new lifestyle by yourself. You will see that migration is, therefore, sometimes an act of love for your family.

 



 


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