Family History Project

PresentationBy: Christopher Rodriguez

Introduction

Five connections that tie my family history to this

course:

Immigration

Ports of entry

Cross border activities

Pull factors

The immigration ladder

Immigration

Act of coming to live permanently to a foreign land

My Grandparents immigrated to the united states in the

1950s during the fourth wave of immigration.

Ports of Entry

A port of entry is a place in which people enter a

country.

The port of entry that my grandparents used to come

into the United States was El Paso, Texas, which

borders the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Cross Border Activities

Refers to any activity preformed across the border of

two countries.

Before my grandfather came to the united states, he

was employed here. He lived in Chihuahua, Mexico

and would travel back and forth everyday so he can

have money to bring back to his family.

Pull Factors

A pull factor is anything that draws somebody to

another place.

Pull factors that made my family come to California was

the work needed here.

Other pull factors that had my family moving around

was the search of a safer place to raise their families

Internal Migration

1963 – Inglewood, California

1964 – South Gate, California

1975 – Bell Gardens, California

1987 – Montebello, California

1994-Present – Chino, California

Conclusion

There are many more connections that connect my

family to this course

Through the vocab, interviews, and maps that I have

done in this course, I was able to learn many things

about my family history that I did not know.