Albana Gallari Research Paper

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Albana Gallari is an Albanian Immigrant who moved to the United States on February 16, 1997. Gallari was born in communist Albania on March 4, 1974. Gallari lived under the reign of Communist Dictator Enver Hoxha throughout her early life. Gallari grew up poor with little to eat besides bread and cheese and had almost no material possessions besides 3 pairs of clothes along with 3 tattered dolls. Throughout her early life her mother took care of her alongside her job of working in a government factory and her father was a livestock veterinarian. Gallari faintly remembers going to her friend's house on Sundays to watch cartoons due to her family being too poor to afford a television. After the communist regime fell in 1992, Gallari became a …show more content…

He accepted the offer in search of more opportunities not available to him in Greece. He later returned from the United States to visit family in Albania and he married Gallari. Her husband returned to the U.S and after becoming pregnant with her first son, Gallari moved to the U.S to join her husband while there was mass civil unrest unraveling in Albania. Upon moving to the U.S, the people were surprisingly very friendly which is something Gallari did not suspect due to the more serious attitude from the people living in her home country. Gallari found it difficult to acquire a job due to being pregnant and lacking the necessary English skills. Despite this she admired the opportunities available in the U.S and found a job wiping down tables at a restaurant. In the following years she gave birth to two children and went on to community college to receive an associates degree in accounting. After she had greatly improved her English speaking ability, her husband and her opened up a …show more content…

Pacheco and Albana both regard the United States as a life changer. The U.S had allowed Pacheco to acquire wages he had never dreamed of in Mexico and had allowed Gallari to escape the civil unrest and the poverty of her home country and exchange it with a bastion of relative safety and economic opportunity in the United States. Albana had immigrated to the U.S under the presidency of Bill Clinton. Under Bill Clinton, the U.S economy enjoyed widespread growth with an unemployment rate of only about 5% in 1997. The relative economic prosperity brought upon by his presidency is what later allowed Albana to acquire a job with very little English and time in the United States. Pacheco moved to the United States in 2005 under the presidency of George Bush. In 2005, the U.S economy was fairly prosperous with 2,000,000 new jobs created and an unemployment rate of 4.9%. The low unemployment rate and large amount of new jobs had allowed Pacheco to acquire a job in construction very shortly after moving to the U.S. Despite moving nearly 10 years apart, both Pacheco and Gallari enjoyed stable prosperous economies in the U.S which allowed them to quickly attain employment. Unlike Albana, Pacheco did not have trouble learning English due to far

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