Amada Irma Perez (born 1951) is a Mexican American writer and advocate for programs encouraging multicultural understanding.
When she was five years old her family moved to a labor camp in El Monte, California, where her father worked at an aluminum foundry.
[4] Her childhood experiences immigrating to the United States and subsequent living conditions were the inspiration for the autobiographical fiction stories My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito and My Diary From Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla.
In My Diary from Here to There, the young girl who is narrating the story writes about feelings of sadness and fear towards leaving her home in Mexico.
Some of the other concerns she voices include not being able to speak in her native tongue, worrying about whether she will ever see her best friend again and if her family will ever get the chance to return to Mexico.
Through My Diary From Here to There, Perez shows the story of an entire family coming to the United States legally, as they were waiting on green cards while the Father worked in fields.
The works of Gloria Anzaldua make the experience of a Latina women to be “an inner war” while she struggles with both cultures, also characterizing this feeling as a choque or crash.