Is your mom someone special? Is she an immigrant? The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is spreading the word about winning dignity and respect for our immigrant moms, and for all immigrants, through a new Tumblr collection of stories called "Meet My Immigrant Mom."

Check out the collection of stories about women workers who came to the United States from countries all over the world, including Korea, Nigeria, Mexico, El Salvador, Burma, the Philippines, India and many more. 

Submit your story and photo about why your immigrant mother is special.

Here's an excerpt of Cecelia Gutierrez's story, as told by her daughter:

Meet my ma, Cecilia Gutierrez. This is a picture of us in Hawaii in 2012, on her first real vacation ever. Her story is like [the stories of] millions of other immigrant women in this country. She came to the U.S. in the late 60s, started working as a live-in maid, then went on to work in an electronics factory for 10 years that shut down in the 80s by moving to another country and then for the last 30 years has worked as a domestic worker and nanny for the same two wealthy white families in Beverly Hills. She has never gotten a paid vacation, never received overtime pay, health-care and has had minimal raises that don’t even reflect a cost of living adjustment. She became a widow at a very young age, and she figured out creative ways to ensure that I had a good education by enrolling me in Catholic school for 12 years (she did not anticipate that this helped breed my rebellious spirit). She always tells me, “I don’t have anything to leave you when I die, except the fact that I was able to provide you with schooling, and no one can take that away from you.” This was one of the things that she did not get to have in El Salvador or here in the U.S. I am forever grateful to her and all of her sacrifice! The least I can do to thank her is to continue fighting for women’s, worker and immigrant rights, so her life experience is not the norm. And on a personal level, to show my gratitude and love, I will make sure to take her on her second vacation…lately, she has been hinting that she would love to visit New York and maybe London, too.