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From Venezuela to theFrom Venezuela to the
U.S.AU.S.A
Carolina XimenesÉrica Sudário
Mariana Mendes
A portrait of immigration in our times
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Name: Marcos Tomas Fernandes
Nickname: Tomasito
Nationality: Venezuelan
Field: Computer Engineering
Job status: unemployed
Age: 26
Our interviewee
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Tomas at a friend’s house
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Our interview takes place
in the wonderful Miami. We found
Marcos Tomas while he was on his
vacation, visiting some relatives.Between shopping and sun baths
he found a bit of time to talk to us
through Skype. Tomas is a 26-year-
old single Venezuelan who has
lived in the USA since 2006. Whenhis job contract ended, in the
begging of the year, he found
himself being an immigrant in the
middle of a crisis.
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1st part: what Tomas saysabout himself
“(...)there are many issues, you know, when
you come to another country, like for instance
how you’re going to keep yourself and how
you’re going to keep up with all the expenses of
moving to a different country and the way it
happened is that I found a job agency and they
hired me over the phone. ”
“Otherwise [without a job], let me say, I
probably wouldn’t have done it. ”
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“(...) I enrolled at the university to studyelectrical engineer, but it was a publicuniversity. (...) that means a lot of bureaucracy. (...) usually by the time you get
accepted up to the time that you are actuallyattending classes at the university; it takeslike 6 months up to a year. So, my mom toldme “(...) you spend all the time on the
computer, you should try computerengineering in a private school while you waitfor the other university to start,” and so I did. ”
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“When I was a child, I was planning to be
an electrical engineer because I have an
uncle that is an electrical engineer and heis really successful. (...) I didn’t see much
potential in electrical engineering as I saw
in computer engineering. So I chose tomove with computer engineering. ”
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“There are many things that actually are
difficult about moving, but (...) it just dependson how open you are to access new things.”
“You got to really know all the cultures,especially being in America. America is acountry made by immigration. I mean, for allpeople from all over the world.”
“It seems that you need to be culture aware,and I’d say you might need to be neutral. You
have to be polite and in some way kind of avoid an cultural kind of taboo ... ”
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“You have to sort of be able to talk toanyone, independently of where they are
from. And I think that when you hang out
with people from your country, it isdifficult to learn the language and
understand why things happen in certain
ways. And you might be isolated from
reality, if you’re sort of like isolated from
the real people that live here. ”
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2nd part: what Tomas saysabout the crisis
“I think computer engineer, technology
industry is kind of somewhat isolated from
the problem; however it has been impacted,I’m not going to say it hasn’t. Microsoft has
laid off 5 thousand people already, Google
has laid off another 4 thousand, there’re alllaying off all over the place; however I think
that people that is really qualified don’t get
laid off.”
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“(…) if you are pretty, if you are blond and
you have green eyes, you probably will find
a job easier (…) If the interviewer doesn’tlike you, you’re pretty much screwed “
“ (…) US citizens can find a job anywhere,
they have common benefits, and even if
they get fired, they can find a job
somewhere else. However, immigrants
cannot find a job that easily. It depends on
their studies, what kind of visa they get, and
all that kind of stuff.”
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“ (…) it all depends how brilliant you are. If
you are brilliant, there’re no limits for you.
But you got to do it on your own, that’s the
point, right? If you don’t have a degree, you
have to do it on your own. If you want a job,you need a degree. If you want a good
job(…)”