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Success paths of young immigrants in higher
education and the professional world.

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[Born in the Dominican Republic] There are
many times that I feel very Dominican

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[Ending Private Detective. Catalan Studies] and
there are many times when I feel very Catalan.

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We can be talking, for
instance, about my country

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and I go "yes, because it's my country
and I love it"

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"and is the most wonderful thing
in the world", and so on.

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Then they say, "and
here in Barcelona?"

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The I say "I'm not leaving
Barcelona in my life!"

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I'm in love with Barcelona. Barcelona
is my home... I'm in the middle.

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I come from a very poor neighborhood.

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People my age, my girlfriends...

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I went there last year and these
girls have 3 and 4 children.

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I know that if I stayed there
I'd be in the same situation

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because to me it would be normal.

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It wouldn't be normal to go "well, I
have to study." No, I would start...

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"Look, I already have a woman's body.
The boys tell me things."

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Start hanging out with kids and some
day, you know, you've gotten pregnant

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and you must stay with that man and that
belly.

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And I I thank my parents very
much for deciding "I'm leaving".

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"I'm leaving because I want something better
for me, something better for my child."

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The first memory of Barcelona

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Montjuïc Castle, and
sure, you climb up there

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You come from a neighborhood that...
And you climb up there and see

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Barcelona. And you've fallen in love
no matter what.

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I decided when I was 4 that I was staying.

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I've been in this neighborhood all my life,

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I have only moved around a bit.

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The last time I moved
was to go down there.

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And I, with people... I did have a relationship
with the young people in my neighborhood

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because I had a a romantic relationship
with a boy from the neighborhood, but

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once this relationship ended

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the local people, like,
despised me.

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I was speaking with them.
I have always been home.

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And they told me things like... I don't
know, "you'll never get anywhere."

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Or "because he was everything to you and
he could become something or other."

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And I thought "well, I'm sorry.
I for one am studying"

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"I want to continue studying, and you don't
even have the EGB [primary education degree]."

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Then, it was that pride, "see
one day I will be..."

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"I don't know, an astronaut, and you still
be here in the neighborhood doing nothing."

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Have you always wanted to study?

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When I got to 16 I said "I
don't want to keep studying."

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And I had a fight with my parents

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I told them I was studying for them.

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That I had no interest in studying and I was
doing it because they were telling me "study".

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And, you know, as a little lamb
that must obey, I studied.

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I had difficulties with schoolmates,
for example, or with teachers.

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Especially with a teacher

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I had many difficulties with her.

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Because I didn't understand her;
She didn't understand me.

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And I got to a point...

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That was in high school.

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And I got to a point that I
had to change High School

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because I couldn't stand that teacher.

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Throughout my life I have
met many people who...

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have stopped trying to push forward

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because they have stalled and they stalled

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because of the people
they've ganged with.

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I've had ESO [high school
equivalent] friends, for example,

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who had left school
because, being foreigners,

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had started ganging
with other foreigners,

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Both from their own
country and others,

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and built a sort of ghetto.

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There were closed and

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persons entering or leaving
or the ones they didn't want in,

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was always determined...
by the place of origin.

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At the University I was surprised
because there were no foreigners.

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At least in my class.

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And then I began to see that yes, there was
one girl but she doesn't look like it.

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Or, across the whole campus there
were two black people.

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But it is strange because
there's a lot of immigration.

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Why not in college?

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What led you to go to college?

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The desire.
The desire to know you...

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You know, there's nothing
wrong with being a waitress.

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But knowing that you can get to
be more than a waitress...

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Because that's what I said,
everyone can be a waitress.

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I mean, everyone who wants
to work can be a waiter.

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Or can be at a newsstand,
or whatever.

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But knowing that you can reach the
University because you have the ability

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and you have the desire, and from there to
have a degree

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that you can develop. Why not?
Not everybody does that.

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And I think that people who don't is because
they don't want to, not because they can't.

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Since I was 5 I had the clear thought

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that I wanted to be a
midwife when I grew up.

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When I got older I learned
that blood makes me dizzy.

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And knowing that I said
"that's not possible."

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Because anything could happen
to me in an operating room.

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Then wanted to be an actress.

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And that didn't work out.

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I began to study
Private Investigation.

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And not because I wanted
to be an investigator

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but because I didn't know
what to do with my life

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and that was the choice
I made to keep studying

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because I wanted to study. I didn't
want to spend a year at home thinking

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what I want to
be in the future.

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And I'm about to get my degree.

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In this last year

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I decided what I wanted to do.

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I wanted to do Catalan Studies

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because that's what I like.
This is what beats me

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And now that I know what beats

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I know what I want to be, and

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I want to become a University
professor, teaching Catalan.

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[Do you want to send a message?] If you
are a foreigner... From Latin America,

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my country, for example.

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If you stay ther sitting on
your hands you'll do nothing.

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If you stay there and try to do
something may be successful.

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But if you can leave and come here,
you will surely do something.

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I advise everyone, mobilization.

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In order to improve yourself.

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