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Description: Chicago born Guatemalan Wendy Melgar describes growing up in Chicago and Guatemala, being the family translator, the self-reliance that lead to a college degree, helping others navigate banking and education, and her dreams of holding onto her heritage and culture. The article also discusses immigration patterns of Guatemalan settlement in the United States since the 1980s.
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Subject: Immigrants, Latino heritage
Creator: Esther J. Cepeda
Publisher: NBC News Latino
Language: English
Coverage: United States (country), Illinois (state), DuPage (county), Bensenville (inhabited place), Guatemala (country)
Format: WARC
Type: Website
Date: 2015-09-28
Collector: Bensenville Community Public Library
Contributor: Wendy Melgar
Rights: © 2021 NBC UNIVERSAL
Identifier: BCPL_IA_IMMIGRANT_007
Description: Underage teenage asylum-seekers from Central America navigate US federal immigration and labor laws, while working to payoff immigration debts, support their families at home, and get an education. These teens are faced with choosing between dead end exploitive factory work from agencies that do not ask their age, and getting an education. The results are unreported injury, loss of educational opportunity, psychological trauma and poverty.
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Subject: Teenagers, Immigrants, Child labor, Asylum seekers, Education, Exploitation
Creator: Melissa Sanchez
Publisher: ProPublica Illinois
Language: Spanish
Coverage: United States (country), Illinois (state), DuPage (county), Bensenville (inhabited place), Guatemala (country) , Central America (region), Elmhurst (inhabited place)
Format: WARC
Type: Website
Date: 2020-11-20
Collector: Bensenville Community Public Library
Contributor: Christie Tirado, Sebastián Hidalgo, Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)
Identifier: BCPL_IA_IMMIGRANT_003
Description: Underage teenage asylum-seekers from Central America navigate US federal immigration and labor laws, while working to payoff immigration debts, support their families at home, and get an education. These teens are faced with choosing between dead end exploitive factory work from agencies that do not ask their age, and getting an education. The results are unreported injury, loss of educational opportunity, psychological trauma and poverty.
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Subject: Immigrants, Teenagers, Child labor, Education, Exploitation, Asylum seekers
Creator: Melissa Sanchez
Publisher: ProPublica Illinois
Language: English
Coverage: United States (country), Central America (region), Illinois (state), DuPage (county), Bensenville (inhabited place), Guatemala (country) , Elmhurst (inhabited place)
Format: WARC
Type: Website
Date: 2020-11-19
Collector: Bensenville Community Public Library
Contributor: Gaby Hurtado-Ramos, Sebastián Hidalgo, Christie Tirado
Identifier: BCPL_AI_IMMIGRANT_001
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