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Sonia Nazario supports the American Dream by writing about immigrants who come to the United States to live a better life and seek better opportunities for themselves and their families.

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Her life is proof of the American Dream because she came as an immigrant to the united states to live a better life and so did her parents.

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Biography

Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country's most intractable problems - hunger, drug addiction, immigration - and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. She was also a finalist for a third Pulitzer, in Public Service.

She is best known for "Enrique's Journey," her story of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House and became a national bestseller.

Her recent humanitarian efforts to get lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children led to her selection as the 2015 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient by the Advocates for Human Rights. She also was named a 2015 Champion of Children by First Focus and a 2015 Golden Door award winner by HIAS Pennsylvania. In 2016, the American Immigration Council gave her the American Heritage Award. Also in 2016, the Houston Peace & Justice Center honored her with their National Peacemaker Award.

Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a "trendsetter" by Hispanic Magazine. In 2012 Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among "40 women who changed the media business in the past 40." In 2018, she was given the Spirit of HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality) Award. In 2020, Parade Magazine named her one of "50+ Most Influential Latin-American Women in History."

She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has honorary doctorates from Mount St. Mary's College and Whittier College. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, and later joined the Los Angeles Times.

She is now at work on her second book and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Read her column here.

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Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country's most intractable problems - hunger, drug addiction, immigration - and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. She was also a finalist for a third Pulitzer, in Public Service.

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Source2: Sonia Nazario: An Author and Journalist's American Dream

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Source2: Sonia Nazario: An Author and Journalist's American Dream

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The American Dream is harder to achieve

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Sonia Nazario: An Author and Journalist's American Dream

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The Book By Sonia Nazario Enrique's Journey, is a good example of people wanting to live the AMERICAN DREAM. A mother coming to America from Guatemala. She works to send her children what they need to make sure that her kids get the best. This is a good example because the boy then comes to live with her.

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This novel, written by Sonia Nazario, is about the haunting tale of a teenager, Enrique, that travels from his home country of Honduras in order to reunite with his mother in the United States. His mother had left him and his family when he was young, and it was his dream to be able to have the opportunity to reunite with his mother after years continued to pass without her coming home. She had left to go to the United States in order to support the family economically, which was something that she had accomplished. She was able to send her family money so that they could continue to be fed and go to school. Though, throughout his youth, Enrique becomes rebellious and is beyond unsupportive of the fact that his mother left. Enrique, more than anything, wanted to have a relationship with his mother, despite the fact that she was providing her family with money so that they could have more and do more than ever before. Enrique, like many migrants from Central America wanting to reach the United States, traveled atop freight trains through Central America and Mexico, where the migrants had to worry about starvation, thirst, being caught and deported, assault and murder, various gang violence atop the trains, rape, being robbed, and having limbs cut off if they fall underneath the train when trying to get on. Enrique put his life in danger and gave up all of the material comforts that he had at home in order to create the bond with his mother that he never had. Enrique and his journey follow a path of life that was advocated for by many American heroes, such as most notably, though arguably, Henry David Thoreau.

This novel directly connects to the modern American Dream, because the main character, Enrique, cares far less about the material possessions that his mother is being able to provide for he and his family, and cares most about the relationship he has with his mother. His mother left her family behind because she thought that her family would benefit more by having new clothes and food and a steady source of income coming in, but her children thought that they would've benefitted more by having a mother, no matter how hard the struggle was. Enrique cared most about making relationships in life and having connections with people. He wanted to simplify and have what was most meaningful in life, which was a loving relationship with his family. And to accomplish this and to obtain this relationship, he was willing to risk his entire life. Gang violence atop the trains in which he traveled is brutal, with robberies and murders left and right. Though, Enrique was willing to risk everything because the material possessions that his mother was offering him when he was home was not enough reason for him to continue living. He wanted to live with his mother, and it didn't matter to him if he was starving. Enrique represented the American Dream because he wanted to simplify and attain the important things in life, and he was willing to risk everything in order to do so.

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This novel, written by Sonia Nazario, is about the haunting tale of a teenager, Enrique, that travels from his home country of Honduras in order to reunite with his mother in the United States.

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Interview with Sonia Nazario about Enrique's Journey

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Interview with Sonia Nazario about Enrique's Journey

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"Most migrants would rather stay at home with everything they know and love— their families, culture, and language, yet 300,000 unlawful immigrants enter the United States each year. I now recognize that such a powerful stream will change only if it is addressed at its source, if the economies and safety of these countries that are sending large numbers of people to the United States improves. I talked to one teen in southern Mexico who had made twenty-seven attempts to reach his mother in the United States, and he was getting ready to make attempt number twenty- eight. "