All 50 Uses
migrant
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Enrique's Journey (Adapted for Young People)
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- Until my journey with migrant children, I had no true understanding of what people are willing to do to get here to have that same opportunity and freedom.†
p. 7.4migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- From Minor, I began to understand just how dangerous this journey was for young migrants.
p. 7.8migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Most migrant children are attacked at some point, sometimes several times along the way.†
p. 8.1migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- What's the exact route migrants take?
p. 8.4migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- The places where migrants face the greatest cruelty?
p. 8.4
- The scary truth is that female migrants, especially young girls, are likely to be sexually assaulted along the way—even if they have the advantage of traveling with a smuggler.
p. 8.6
- The letter also convinced a migrant rights group in Mexico called Grupo Beta to be a bodyguard of sorts for me.†
p. 9.7migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- In May 2000, I scoped out a dozen shelters and churches along the Mexican side of the border that help migrants, including minors.†
p. 10.4migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- On the trains were other migrant children going to find their mothers.†
p. 11.9migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- I interviewed dozens of migrants, as well as experts throughout Honduras and Mexico—medical workers, priests, nuns, police officers.†
p. 11.9migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Although I often felt exhausted and miserable, I knew I was experiencing only a sliver of what migrant children go through.†
p. 13.3migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- Enrique and the migrants I spent time with gave me a priceless gift.†
p. 14.9migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- He and Jose ride back to Central America in what migrants call El Bus de Lagrimas, the Bus of Tears.†
p. 46.5
- The bus unloads migrants back across the Rio Suchiate in the rugged town of El Carmen.†
p. 46.5
- He has cared for injured migrants before.†
p. 55.5
- Over time, the people of Las Anonas have seen many injured migrants like Enrique.†
p. 55.7 *
- "This is what they get for doing this journey," he says of migrants.†
p. 55.9
- In the past few weeks, Enrique has slept on the ground; in a sewage ditch, curled up with other migrants; on top of gravestones.†
p. 56.4
- The thousands of migrants who ride atop freight trains must hop as many as thirty trains to get through Mexico.†
p. 56.9
- Police stopped the train near the town of Tonala to hunt for migrants, and Enrique had to jump off.†
p. 57.6
- Some migrants realize, sitting on the bus, that they can take no more.†
p. 58.5
- Sometimes migrants riding on the train climb from car to car trying to move forward or backward.†
p. 59.1
- Dozens of migrants cling to the train, but no one is within shouting distance.†
p. 59.2
- He scrubs dirt out of the wounds and thinks of the migrants he has treated who have died.†
p. 62.5
- Injured migrants who cannot move sometimes have to wait one or two days until someone finally walks by, discovers them, and stops to help.†
p. 62.6
- Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant.†
p. 62.8migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- Other times, the migrant is dead by the time they arrive.†
p. 62.8
- Some migrants who have lost an arm, a leg, or a foot are too ashamed to go back home and show their families what has become of them.†
p. 62.9migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Social workers say to the migrants who return: tell other people there not to travel this way.†
p. 63.1
- Sometimes they let themselves be caught by la migra so they can beat and rob the migrants on the buses.†
p. 63.9
- The twenty other migrants on Enrique's bus are depressed.†
p. 64.1
- Now we face the beast," migrants say when they enter Chiapas.†
p. 65.3
- He always crosses with one or two other migrants, in case he slips and starts to drown.†
p. 65.8
- Residents tend to dislike migrants.†
p. 66.4
- In the cemetery he is close enough to the tracks to hear a train coming, its diesel engine growling and its horns blaring, but far enough away to avoid police who might be hovering around the station looking for migrants.†
p. 66.6
- Enrique hears migrants trying to run, stampeding among the graves, but he knows there is no point.†
p. 67.6
- Enrique and the other migrants are marched off to the Tapachula jail.†
p. 67.9
- The migrants are led into an enclosed patio.†
p. 67.9
- Other migrants hoist him higher.†
p. 68.3
- Before la migra can notice, Enrique runs back toward the cemetery to hide until ten a.m. At the first rumble of the departing train, the cemetery comes to life as dozens of migrants, children among them, appear from behind the bushes, trees, and tombs where they have been hiding.†
p. 68.6
- Now he and the other migrants run on trails between the graves and dash headlong down a hill.†
p. 68.8
- The train ate him up," other migrants will say.†
p. 69.5
- A University of Houston study found that nearly one in six migrant girls detained by authorities in Texas say they have been sexually assaulted during their journey.†
p. 70.7migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- Many female migrants are gang-raped.†
p. 70.7migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Migrants hang on to the sides of cars, trying to find a spot to perch.†
p. 71.5
- They wage what a priest at a migrant shelter calls la guerra sin nombre, the war with no name.†
p. 71.6migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- A human rights report said that migrants trying to make it through Chiapas face "an authentic race against time and death."†
p. 71.8migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Some migrants climb on board with a toothbrush tucked into a pocket.†
p. 72.7
- There are several children on board, and Grupo Beta, the government migrant rights group in Chiapas, estimates that 20 to 30 percent of migrants who board here are fifteen or younger.†
p. 72.9migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- There are several children on board, and Grupo Beta, the government migrant rights group in Chiapas, estimates that 20 to 30 percent of migrants who board here are fifteen or younger.†
p. 73.1migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrant) a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)