Immigration

[Athena_e19]

What types of stories can we develop off of an immigration theme? It doesn't necessarily have to be a modern tale, it could also be periodic.

A young mother comes to the US illegally and gets caught up in a type of "work" she hadn't planned on?

A mail order bride?

What else?

 

[aymanmosstfa]

A young woman went to u.s.a to study and she meet her fate her dream man but she must back home will she stay with him ,left him or he went with her

 

[Athena_e19]

This could be a great story-

The INS could act as the villain and the man maybe isn't quite ready to marry her so she can't get her green card. Or maybe she has a family member on the Homeland Security watchlist and they won't allow her to receive an extension.

 

[aymanmosstfa]

What if she must back because family business she may lose her Legacy if she won't back?

 

[Athena_e19]

Like a family inheritance?

Okay- so a girl moves to the US looking to get an education, and finds this wonderful American guy. She falls in love and thinks he does as well. But when her family calls her and tells her that her parents have died and that she must come home to take over the business.

Once there, she is under a lot of societal pressure to marry a man (since a woman's place is not in business). Her parents had arranged for her to marry a particular guy and eager to please their memory and not disgrace the family she does. (Should he be nice or bad?)

The American lover decides he made the wrong decision and drops everything and moves to XXXX to win her back. He finds her married, he a foreign outcast, and she still in love but unable to break away.

What happens from here?

 

[JohnAndJane]

From real life...

How about the sorts of things immigrants have to do to prove that they're a 'couple' to become residents ?

In a number of countries, if they suspect the marriage is one of convenience, the immigration authorities will insist that the couple prove that they're really a couple. Some couples have been known to provide pictorial evidence of their relationship being more than just platonic.

Or perhaps the immigration officer wants to watch them have sex to prove they're really a couple ?

J&J.

 

[Athena_e19]

The process of immigrating is really tough, so you could definitely utilize an abuse of power type of thing to write the story up.

A man fails his citizenship test and his wife passes. He is about to get deported unless there is a way to bend the rules. A mid level bureaucratic official agrees to help if he can sample the wife.

 

[aymanmosstfa]

Like a family inheritance?

Okay- so a girl moves to the US looking to get an education, and finds this wonderful American guy. She falls in love and thinks he does as well. But when her family calls her and tells her that her parents have died and that she must come home to take over the business.

Once there, she is under a lot of societal pressure to marry a man (since a woman's place is not in business). Her parents had arranged for her to marry a particular guy and eager to please their memory and not disgrace the family she does. (Should he be nice or bad?)

The American lover decides he made the wrong decision and drops everything and moves to XXXX to win her back. He finds her married, he a foreign outcast, and she still in love but unable to break away.

What happens from here?

he will be her Cousin and as uper egyption say family mony must be in family and dont get out and he nice man.
we can make it he also forced to marry her that happend alot

 

[snooper]

I have long thought that Ellis Island may have many stories to tell, if it could only speak. A modern airport is porobably less suitable and more rushed.

 

[emap]

Oh my Ellis Island, the stories that would come from there I am rather sure would be alot of bad nasty ones.

Mainly because there was little in the way of healthcare in the times that Ellis was used, people had to stay there for weeks if someone on their boat was sick with something in front of them, the food provided for stuck immigrants was generally rather poor. Of course not particularly because the people running the island were that mean, it had more to do with the amount of money they received, either they pay the workers and not have them walk out or they feed the immigrants semi well.

Though does lead to a rather interesting idea, would rather have to be a series, about a young woman stuck on Ellis with her family, her da and 3 brothers. A day to day series of her 'adventures' procuring food for her and her family. Say first day they get stuck there, some food is handed out but not to them so they all split up to search for things, she comes across a woman just finishing giving a blowjob to one of the guards and getting some bread say. The woman tells her about most of the workers having food about and hwo to get some for her and her family. At first she is not wanting to do it, but later on after getting back with her family and no food, she decides to do it and loses her virginity to one guard, gets some bread and meat, each day having to do different things to different men for food.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Irish Triplets?

An Irishman and his sisters are cramped in a tenement and on cold nights, they all have to snuggle up for warmth. Their parents were killed in the draft riots in 1863, so they are alone. The Irishman isn't eligible for the draft because of his club foot, but he has saved their lives more than once, so the sisters view him as a hero. Another twist: he's a seminary student, pursuing the priesthood. Doesn't keep the sisters from literally warming him up with their bodies and eventually they both fall for him. Being sisters, they are more than happy to share.

 

[Athena_e19]

It seems like emotional and physical struggle provide a great back drop for a lot of story archetypes.

Severus- So is that an incest stories? I wasn't quite sure if the man was also the sister's brother. You could also put a twist on it and include the racism/religionism that occurred at the turn of the century. Take for instance a Romanian/Irish family moves into a German, or English neighborhood. The incest twist could come from the inability of the sons and daughters to find spouses because of their race. Perhaps they are assaulted or ravaged by the other group....

emap- Love the idea of Ellis Island. There are so many aspects to explore. You could write a series on it, transferring the tales from one immigrant to another. Perhaps you have your young woman sacrificing her virginity for food. Then you have a person who witnessed the event in the next chapter doing something else. Maybe one of her brother's finds out and threatens to tell their father unless he gets the same treatment.... Or you could do a voyeur/exhibitionist story where the head of the immigration bureau likes to go and watch these women with his guards while using one of his own.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

It seems like emotional and physical struggle provide a great back drop for a lot of story archetypes.

Severus- So is that an incest stories? I wasn't quite sure if the man was also the sister's brother. You could also put a twist on it and include the racism/religionism that occurred at the turn of the century. Take for instance a Romanian/Irish family moves into a German, or English neighborhood. The incest twist could come from the inability of the sons and daughters to find spouses because of their race. Perhaps they are assaulted or ravaged by the other group....

emap- Love the idea of Ellis Island. There are so many aspects to explore. You could write a series on it, transferring the tales from one immigrant to another. Perhaps you have your young woman sacrificing her virginity for food. Then you have a person who witnessed the event in the next chapter doing something else. Maybe one of her brother's finds out and threatens to tell their father unless he gets the same treatment.... Or you could do a voyeur/exhibitionist story where the head of the immigration bureau likes to go and watch these women with his guards while using one of his own.

I was thinking that there are fewer men around in general because of the war, and the young seminary student, who is their brother (they are triplets, a rare thing in those times) is only human. Most of the men available are black men, and given the animosity between the Irish and blacks at the time (as demonstrated in the aforementioned draft riots), there is little chance that any marriage could be made to such men. The women are waiting for the men to return from the war to have better odds, but in the meantime, their brother is providing them with solace that isn't quite as spiritual as his intended profession would suggest.

I had a story written once with a somewhat different theme, but also Irish incest, but I haven't revamped. It was two incest couples, one father/daughter and the other brother/sister fraternal twins, which do a swap by marrying the non-related person of the opposite sex. They continue their affairs, however, as it would be difficult to end such an affair. It's set in the Irish Potato Famine and they are on board a ship to America. So, there are others around, but they are already close to their family due to such hard times. The captain performs the weddings, which suffices until they have a priest ready. Naturally, only the four of them, who notice each other because of hints of incest, are more understanding of each other, so only they know of the incestuous affairs.