Artifact 3: Violence

     In many countries where migration is a large part of their community, one of the main reasons for it is due to violence and crime rates in their country.Violence is a growing pattern in many countries, especially in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Males of an age above 30 have a greater risk of homicide than males in their late teens. Noticing that facts contributes to one of the reasons for family migration. If, in your home country, one in every 280 males between the ages of 30-44 died because of a homicidal cause, would it make you considering migrating to a country were the rate is much lower and you know that you can survive
another day easily and provide for you family much safer?
   
     In many 3rd world countries, children and women suffer from traumatizing images of death, killings, narcotics and more. These unsettling events cause for many health issues in their future and just that alone cause people and families to want to migrate to a safer country where they know their loved ones will be protected all the time. The trip across the border is just an terrifying though, because every second that you are traveling you are risking putting you and your whole family in jail, possible rape and sexual harassment, and trafficking.
   
     In the Distance Between Us, Reyna and her siblings witness an almost fatal fight between her two uncles caused by alcohol. This event happened after her mother fled for America again, leaving her them all behind. Unfortunately, all of this was happening when Reyna was very young, so the thought of joining her mother and father in America hadn't even crossed her mind until later in her life.