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Dana (24 KP) rated Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother in Books
Mar 23, 2018
When I was younger, my family and I never had to think about immigration. Yeah, we lived in a town where there were a lot immigrants, but we still didn't really think about it. It was more of a passing thought about them being here, not what it actually took for them to get here.
This book opened my eyes about how horrible these people have it when they are making the journey north to America. They see this land of opportunity where it is supposed to be safer for them to live, but instead, they are hounded at every step of the journey and are even deported when they get here.
It is very disheartening to see how much crap these people have to put up with. Not only do they hop on and off of trains that can either kill or maim them, they also have to deal with gangs trying to kill them, police forces who want them gone by whatever means necessary, and the migration officials who have no cares in the world if these people, yes, fellow human beings, are okay or safe.
This nonfiction mainly follows a sixteen year old boy named Enrique as he travels from Honduras to America. It shows a lot of the grittier parts of the journey that no other news outlet or book that I have seen shows. It gives the reader an inside view into the people who have to go through this instead of only showing the numbers that equate to it, though there are still parts of this book that have that aspect.
One thing that I wasn't too fond of while reading this were the very dry parts where there was only information shown. It felt like a very journalistic piece (the author is a journalist, but still). I wanted to read more about these people instead of showing the figures like there are in the other journalist pieces I have read.
Overall, if you want to learn about the migration crisis, pick this book up. If you think you know everything there is to know about migration, still pick this up, you may learn something new.