Chapter 2: Migration - The Voluntary Migration Comic of The Jones Family

Article: Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages Encounter Isolation  by Kirk Semple 

Laura is a Mexican immigrant who's dream was always been to move to the United States, but she speaks no English or Spanish, she speaks Mixtec, so when her and her family moved to East Harlem she lost her ability to communicate with almost every one in the city and now she has essentially lost her ability to get around without the help of her spanish speaking husband.  

I chose Mexico because it has the largest number of people who immigrate to the states out of any country. In 2009 Mexican immigrants accounted for 29.9 percent of all immigrants in the United States.

Chapter 3 Migration Comic: The Jones Migrate to Indonesia 

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Short Outline
It was a cool summers night in 1972. Phil and I sat anxiously outside Gate 12 waiting for the flight that would change out entire world. Our daughter, only two years old, slept with her head on my husbands shoulder, her small pigtails brushing the side of his cheek. Her face looked calm and relaxed, not frightened by the fears of a new country which plagued my mind. As watched the seconds tick by on a clock across the terminal, the broken voice of a flight attendant over the intercom announced that flight 123 to Macassar was now boarding. Wordlessly my husband and I stood up, tightly clutching our two bags which housed all our worldly possessions. We exited the terminal via the door the flight attendant directed us to and slowly climbed the stairs to the plane. It was the first time any of us had been on an airplane and the strong sent of burnt rubber on tarmac was far from comforting. California had been all of our homes since birth, but we were now leaving in hopes of spreading our evangelical views. It took about 16 hours for us to fly all the way from California to Macassar.  Everything was new, all the way from the takeoff to the landing.  By the time we got to Indonesia, we were exhausted, and we hadn't even done anything yet!  Once we touched down, we needed to find where we were going to.  This was hard because everything was in Indonesian. We pulled out a map.

1) The Jones leave their home in California for a plane to Makassar 
2) They arrive in Makassar and get on a plane for Jayapura 
3) They are met at the airport by a man named Setiaboodee who took them to the village 
4) One the way to the village they were told of the suspected cannibals who lived near by
5) They arrived at the village and all the villagers were dressed up like cannibals to scare them
6) After the short scare they had a welcoming ceremony
7) Gradually JoAnne got use to her new teaching job and the lived happily their for years

Pictures:
- family photos in California and in Indonesia
-  California
-  Indonesia
- them in the airport
-  the airport
- map of their journey
- a plane
- their daughter and Setiaboodee
- family with car
- villagers
- welcoming ceremony
- children playing together
- school children with school house

Rough Draft of Scrip:

Picture 1: Text box from the baby saying, “What’s an Indonesia?”

Picture 2: Picture of the couple with text box saying “Welcome to Southern California”

Picture 3: Airport pic with dialogue box from top saying, “Flight 42 to Kalimantan now boarding”

Picture 4: Airplane pic going across ocean with text box saying, “Here goes nothing”

Picture 5: “17 hours later…”

Picture 6: Picture of gibberish on paper with text box saying “What does this mean?”

Picture 7: Plane ride to Jayapura

Picture 7: Pic of cannibal village with text box saying, “Uh oh...what’s going on?”