Sonia Nazario Enrique's Journey

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In the book, “Enrique’s Journey,” the readers learn that Sonia Nazario, the author of the book, had a very special background. Both of her parents’ families immigrated from Syria and Poland to Argentina due to religious persecution and poverty. They got marriage and immigrated to America in 1960. Sonia Nazario was born in Kansas and as an immigrant child grew up in America, she understood how other immigrants felt like to live in a foreign country. Nazario also spent some of her childhood time in Argentina during the genocidal “dirty war,” which was a campaign by the Argentine government against suspected dissidents and subversives. Many people, including the innocent people, kept “disappearing” in the middle of the night. Nazario and her family