Families decide to migrate to the United States and leave behind their home in order to attempt to pursue the American Dream. These families abandon their homes and leave their families behind to move towards upward mobility to be able to offer their children better opportunities and a better quality of life that they were never able to have however migrating into the United States has its challenges. There are multiple aspects of the migration process that individuals must assimilate to in order to thrive and successfully achieve the American Dream. Learning the English language is one of the crucial necessities that an individual needs to eventually learn in order to communicate with others. Nonetheless, this may become a challenge when sustaining a family is a parent’s main priority. To society immigrant children are considered a burden but when their looking closer at their responsibilities and the tasks they take on daily to help their parents understand certain circumstances they may be encountering it is obvious that immigrant children play a fundamental …show more content…
Although they are not adequately trained to translate these children at a young age will begin to be their parents translator when it comes to their education, medical or health issues, commercial, any legal or state immigrations issues, fanatical, employment, residential information, and entertainment. Being a non-professional translator is one of the many job that these children have to take on. The majority of translators are girls and Orellana’s study demonstrates that 46 percent of translators actually enjoyed translating as oppose to only 9 percent who stated that they found it embarrassing to do so. Being a translator for their family helps the whole family obtain resources that the family wouldn’t have if want for the assistance of their