hope because when people immigrate to a new place, they do so with the

expectation that it will be better than the place they came from (otherwise, they

would not have thought of migrating in the first place). Immigrants come to a

new country in hopes of a better life, whatever that may entail. However, with

hope, and expectations of any kind, inevitably, comes anxiety. Anxiety is an

uneasiness about the future and the uncertainties of it (Morris 59). When

people migrate to a new land, they hope that it will hold a better life for them

and/ or their offspring; but, they also worry that this hope will not be

realized. Immigrants may worry about fitting in, being accepted, being true to

their beliefs, being able to communicate, being successful and not getting lost.

Another anxiety may come when they encounter a society with different views,

beliefs and norms. These anxieties lead immigrants to question their

identity in order to figure out how they will fit into their new society.

Identification is a very complex, socially- constructed process in which people identify

think about certain parts of himself, namely race, because he doesn’t accept who

Barringer explained in a 1992 New York Times article, a Hispanic person “can

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