“Where Do We Belong?”: A Brief Collection of Immigrant Daughter Musings

Authors

Andrea Amado-Fajardo

Keywords

children of immigrants, American immigrants

Abstract

My friend groups have always been ethnically and racially diverse. Once, while pouring over pictures from my quinceañera celebration, my mom laughed and pointed out that my friend group could be on the cover of a magazine that celebrates diversity. I think that children of immigrants understand each other on an instinctive level, so we flock to each other. Regardless of mom’s and dad’s countries, we feel this shared sense of displacement. We’re too different from “typical American” kids, and we’re “too American” when we go back to our parents’ countries. For most of my life, this feeling went unsaid.

Recommended Citation

Amado-Fajardo, Andrea (2022) "“Where Do We Belong?”: A Brief Collection of Immigrant Daughter Musings," AWE (A Woman’s Experience): Vol. 9, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/awe/vol9/iss1/13