Illegal Immigrant Children

I just wanted to write some interesting things I discovered when doing the interview about being a child of an illegal immigrant. When interviewing Phillipa, she said some points that must be so awful for anyone in that position and must drastically increase any feelings of homesickness for them. Her character, Gala, could not speak English at all and although she went to school in India, she could not get education here. Her dad had died and her mum was unemployed leaving her family (of herself, her mum, four brothers and three sisters) to live in a one-bedroom apartment. Gala found it hard to get on with her family because of living in such a confined space, so people in her situation may not miss her family but rather her school, country and friends. Which got me thinking about how homesickness can be caused by missing a variety of things, not only your family. Friends are obviously a big factor, as we are all probably realising. Some may miss their friends or even pets more than their families, and its not only the people themselves we miss, but all the things associated with them. We could miss the little jokes you always had which no one else understands or even the great roast chicken your mum always made. When we all brought items that made our rooms homely into class, I realised that it wasn’t the actual items that did this in many cases, but the relevance and people behind them.

Kelly Barton