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Topic: immigration

According to the United Nations, about 200 million between 2006 and 2010 across the globe were living in a foreign country different from where they were born (UN Chronicle). Certainly, this absolute number has increased over the years but world migrants in 2010 represented about 2.5% of the global population. These statistics, nevertheless, do not reflect the dramatic increase in world migration as a result of globalization. This is because there is a myopic conception that migration to the less developed nations have reduced significantly in stock. However, the stocks of migrants in developed worlds increased between 2006 and 2010 from 3.1% to 4.5% (UN Chronicle). Dramatic increase in global migration was phenomenal in North America, Australasia and Western Europe registering 4.9 to 7.6% increase (UN Chronicle).
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In spite of the statistics provided by the ex-post world war migrations, the global community is witnessing migration pressures. For instance, the immigration departments of developed nations in developing countries feature extended queues for people lined to fill up immigration applications. The United States department of foreign migration stated that in 2010, the number of waiting list admission totaled to 3.6 million. Besides, the surge in illegal migration and especially across the United States southern border as well as into Western Europe from the south and the east is symbolic of the influx of migration. The immigration department in the United States recorded nearly 300,000 cases of illegal immigrants in 2010 alone (UN Chronicle). In the Western Europe, this figure is estimated to be about 400,000 to 500,000 immigrants (UN Chronicle). In the OECD countries, illegal immigrants are said to add ten top fifteen per cent stock to the foreign born children.
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Migration in international caucuses is also witnessed by the number of people seeking asylum in developed nations from developing countries. The UNHCR records documents over 560,000 applicants for asylum sought residence in 28 industrialized countries as at 2010 global statistics (UN Chronicle). The records further add that nearly double the successful asylum seekers are pending approval. Over the last 20 years, the current statistics have more than nearly doubled signifying a rising trend in global migration.
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Globalization of resources has also purposed migration. People tend to move to areas where there ideal resources are plentiful. For instance, the discovery of oil in Asian conventionally Islamic countries attracted massive flocking of Europeans and whites to these countries who settled around the oil rigs (Taylor, 2013). Sporadically scattered churches are a site to reckon in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. They are a living testimony to the Christianity influx in the region. Presence of Europeans and American families settled in Qatar is an indication of globalized culture and business.
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Resources endowment is another factor than fuels migration in the modern world. People tend to move from areas where the resources are in less supply to where they are in large supply. For instance, human pressure on available in Britain had led the government to engage in bilateral consensus with such governments as the Australian where lands are in excess supply (Economist). Besides, American scholars are migrating from the over concentrated academic institutions in United States to the short supplied in academicians institutions in Europe.
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Globalization of human capital has also favored proliferation of modern world migration. Skilled and semi skilled laborers are moving from countries where they are heavily concentrated to areas where such skills are in short supply. For instance, multiple Chinese companies are on the verge of importing skilled Chinese human capital to several African countries due to the short supply of specialized human capital (Economist). Besides, the proliferation of semi skilled labor demand in American and Canadian firms has attracted multilingual speakers such as Chinese and Arabs to work in various positions such as call centers and customer support desks.
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Over the years, countries deemed migration as a pandemic and disastrous social plague. Therefore, governments issued tight rules for immigrants only preferring skilled laborers over unskilled laborers, refugees and asylum seekers. Incidentally, the realization of migration concept to economic innovation, integration and development spurred migration management concept rather than migration restriction (Economist). For instance, migration is crucial in distributions and development of technology. This is because the immigrants bring with them their technologies into the new settlements hence, promoting technological balance. Certainly, colonized worlds in Africa and Asia received advanced technologies such as railways through settlement of European settlers in their lands.
Topic: immigration

Various economic and demographic fundamentals across the world have precipitated global migration in modern days. It is expected that in the future, the current migration trends will increase and peak over the prevailing statistics. Conventionally, it was held that migration was precipitated by income inequalities between nations (Economist). That is to say that poorest countries witness fewer immigrants than emigrants. Indeed, this was certainly true in the older migration eras such as the nineteenth century. This is because the poorest countries statistics today shows that there are fewer emigrants as compared to emigrant statistics in countries with higher per capita income.
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Therefore, the observation contradicts the perception that income inequality at home and abroad fuels modern migration. However, researches have identified a hump shaped correlation between emigration and economic development. This explains the low rates of emigration in poor countries as compared to moderately poor countries with higher per capita income (UNFPA). The paradox here is explained by demographic changes and structural changes cognizant with industrialization. Consequently, migration is high in earlier stages as compared to later stages.
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Still, poverty constrains limits migration. This is particularly so because financing such long term investments is a big challenge for the poor. Therefore, increasing the home income to help the locals “catch up” helps to relax the financial constraints. As a result, it propagates emigration. Notwithstanding, international migration increases with various selective factors such as individual level of skill, the reward abroad as compared to home reward, provided migration incentives, age of a person as well as perception to prestige. Essentially, global migration increases with a higher differential in incomes between home country and abroad, higher level of skills and higher affinity for prestige.
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Apart from economic factors, non economic factors are also essential in driving in modern world migration. These factors are specific to a person’s compensating differential. For instance, modern migration is influenced by the number of previous migrants that come from the home country living abroad. These include one’s friends, relations and family members. Indeed, social networks play an important role in international migration but it is not an alternative to economic migration model (UNFPA). Relative and social networks inspire destination specific migration because they reduce an immigrants’ destination utility such as accommodation, housing, job reference and placement as well as sufficing threshold immigration policies. For instance, a spouse will ultimately immigrate abroad to reunite the loved one. Indeed, even the strictest of immigration laws acknowledge a person’s spouse in immigration regulations. Besides, social networks mitigate migration costs abroad directly through gifts or loans.
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Another non economic factor that fuels migration is the migration policies, legislations and laws. Strict as well as relaxed migration laws determine which countries people will immigrate to and which ones to avoid. Immigration policies could be classified into two, namely; selective migration policies and quotas. Both policies clout from the associative costs of migration to the host nation. In the latter situation, visa competition characterized by the lengthy queues of people crowding immigration departments in foreign embassies raises migration costs. On the other hand, quotas are imposed to restrict immigration (UNFPA). There are two prominent elements of immigration policy are selection by skill and family reunification. The average rate of migration is dependent on average individual skills independent of operating effects such as destination and source earnings.
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In spite of the restrictive and constraining immigration policies that governments across the globe institute to limit immigration, the United States continues to lead as the destination of choice by many. Over the years, the population exodus to United States has preceded 600,000 people per annum. Apparently, the last century witnessed a decrease in the proportion of Western Europe immigrants to United States. However, a staggeringly huge population of immigrants from Eastern Europe flocked the U.S at the turn of the century (UNFPA). The Asian immigrants were a distance second in the mass exodus to United States following improved relations between the two continents. African continent marked a remarkable small figure although the number of African immigrants in the U.S has more than doubled in recent years.
Topic: immigration

There are several explanations that are posted to explain the bellowing American immigration. Cross sectional studies on emigration and immigration trends indicate a negative relationship in inequality between the income per capital in the source country and the same parameter in the destination country. Similar studies have indicated that the most influential determinant of migration to the U.S is presence of stocks of previous immigrants from the source country. In addition, migration to the United States and Western Europe was factored by political rights, security and political stability both in the foreign country and the home country. Political strife and political instability in sterile countries in Africa such as Somalia has open migration lines into European countries such as Britain and France (UNFPA). The UNHCR estimates that the total asylum seekers in Britain native to Somalia since 1991 totals to over 200,000. Triple this number is refuges in neighboring countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda.
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Migration into and from Africa over the years continues to be small as compared to other continents. Empirical studies further suggest that there is little internal African migration. Such a study in rural Botswana identified a positive and elastic migration trend when employment opportunities and wage rates are introduced in urban centers. In conclusion, migration in modern world is fueled by globalization, economic, non economic and demographic factors. Governments must nurture the potential of migration to leap economic development.
Topic: immigration

” is a witness to the exodus of the culturally rich ethnic group known as the Hmong. She attempts to share the struggle, challenges and triumphs that her people, through her family, had to endure to attain peace and a stable life. The Hmong is an ethnic group who can be found in Vietnam, Thailand but mostly in Laos. They are a unique group since they have no written language but their culture is rich and colorful.
Topic: immigration

This prison camp would be the birthplace of Kalia Kao Yang’s sister. The family is then reunited as the women escape and they cross the Mekong River and enter Thailand. Here, they stay in a refugee camp named Ban Vanai. This refugee camp would be the birthplace of the author. Here, she grows up unaware of the challenges that face her and her people. Another decision would then again make the family “escape”, but this time across Asia and into America. Thus, the family moves to a transition camp where they are taught to speak, read and write English.
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Finally, her family is allowed to migrate to America to rebuild their lives. It is in America however, that Kao Kalia Yang experiences the uniqueness of her people. Thrust in to a new world that could have been another planet, Kao Kalia encounters barriers both in language and culture. Growing up as a child, she would whisper because she felt insecure with how her English sounded. Her family would also face enormous challenges in adapting to America, double jobs and meager salaries, compounded by the fact that Americans were largely ignorant of the Hmong and their fate.
Topic: immigration

Despite difficulties adapting to the western world, she and her family find a “home” that they can go back to, represented by her grandmother. The family matriarch would act as the roots of their family, invoking the spirits of their homeland, reminding them of the hardships that they faced and pushing them to attain a stable and secure life. Life was both tragic and triumphant for Kao Kalia Yang. The challenges she faced in adapting to life in America is being experienced by every immigrant boy and girl in the United States.
Topic: immigration

The insecurities of having a different culture, of knowing the fact that one is different among others and the barriers that immigrant children face are rife with stories of hardship and obstacles. But Kao Kalia Yang’s case is unique because unlike most immigrants, she and her people have no more country to call homeland. Laos have become a place of persecution and discrimination for Hmongs. This fact would push Kao Kalia and other immigrant Hmongs to strive and make their mark on their adopted country. The biggest challenge aside from finding a place to call “home”, was the absence of written language of the Hmongs.
Topic: immigration

Their culture was challenged by the westernization of their situation. That was why Kao Kalia dedicated the book to her grandmother because it was her that grounded her family to the history of their people. In the face of changing times, her grandmother reminded her that theirs was not a normal but blessed life. It would also lead Kao Kalia to found a company that helped immigrants in writing, translating and having a stable life in America. Though her story is unique, the Latehomecomer’s theme of journey, change and challenges is a theme that resonates with all of us.
Topic: immigration

All of us have experienced moving to another place and adjusting to new surroundings. It is always an experience that fills everyone with insecurities and sometimes dread. We ask ourselves whether we would fit in, or if we could ever regain the friends that we’ve lost when we were plucked from our former places. Although I still have a homeland to always refer to, I too sometimes ask myself questions that make me question who I really am. Questions that make me question my roots and reminisce about the experiences of my family.
Topic: immigration

The difference with Kao Kalia Yang and my experiences is her heritage and the tragic past of her people, but we both share the insecurities encountered in adapting and assimilating in new contexts. I was moved with the simplicity that she presented her family, and her people’s, great journey. I thought that in her effort to present the plight of the Hmongs, Kao Kalia Yang would glamorize their sufferings and magnify the difficulties they had to face in attaining a stable life. Instead, she practiced restraint and control.
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The book was not looking for my sympathy vote in the plight of the Hmongs, but rather, it sought for my understanding of their situation. Although the story is very tragic, you cannot help but smile knowing that these people are doing everything they can to preserve their culture. It is a testament to the man’s will to protect his roots and to safeguard his beliefs in the face of dire consequences. Their experiences in escaping the dangers of Laos is harrowing and frightening. I cannot imagine the feeling of leaving everything you know and risking your life to survive.
Topic: immigration

I was appalled with the discrimination that the family experienced even in the refugee camps. Kao Kalia Yang’s experiences in assimilating into the America opened my eyes to the situation of immigrants anywhere. It must be very difficult to find a foothold in a culture that is both poles apart and ignorant of your ethnicity. I was actually rooting for her while reading the book, rooting for her family as they struggled to live up to the American dream. And I was deeply moved when I read about the funeral of her grandmother, the woman that kept them together, the character that epitomized the Hmong culture in the book.
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It felt as if I too lost someone dear in my life. After reading the book, I was inspired to research about the Hmongs and where they are today. Although they still experience discrimination and hardships especially back in their country and the refugee camps, successful Hmongs such as Kao Kalia Yang have inspired most of them to excel in their own fields. In a December 1997 issue of local Wisconsin newspaper, Post-Crescent, they revealed that Hmong students in six Wisconsin public school districts, performed above average and excelled in their classes (Post-Crescent, 1997).
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In 2002, Kaying Xiong-Vue became the first Hmong principal in Wisconsin (Lindsay, 2009). There are even Hmong rappers! They have even been featured in Grey’s Anatomy in the series’ Season 2 episode 5 (beehunie, 2006). The Latehomecomer is a must read not just for those who have been displaced from their homelands, either by tragedy, work or juts looking for better opportunities, but for everyone who is looking for inspiration in this fast paced world. The book is a beautiful reminder that even in the direst, saddest and worst situations, man will always prevail.
Topic: immigration

America the great, land of the free and fortunate a county whose citizens take pride in freedom, their accomplishments, and a nation that is so deeply rooted in immigration. Dating back generations upon generations, my ancestors along with yours have travelled from their native land to American in hope of a better life and a brighter future. America is viewed by many as a country of happiness the “melting pot” for families that seek liberty and life but that age of immigration has come and gone.
Topic: immigration

During the civil war in 1870 the 2nd naturalization law came to be granting citizen ship to emancipated slaves and their children”(Bolger). At this time most became citizens fairly quickly and others where prohibited from entering the United States or becoming citizens due to their race, gender, religious views, and country of origin. These where mostly Asians due to the 24th bill passed excluding Asians indefinitely. This would not become corrected until 1965 with the immigration act that did away with racial barriers. These laws where just a few of many major changes to get the naturalization process to its best potential.
Topic: immigration

In order to become a permanent resident you must complete the naturalization process to insure the right to remain in the United States indefinitely. You may obtain a green card that is a much simpler and less time consuming process but with one minor criminal charge you could be subjected to deportation. With that being said it is a much smarter choice to become a citizen of the United States due to the fact that you withhold permanent residency. “America welcomes qualified immigrants to become citizens. Immigrants deserve a naturalization process that is fair, efficient, and affordable, but also ensures criminals cannot slip through the system”(Kennedy Act).
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Becoming an American citizen is a privilege that one must fight for and show loyalty and commitment to the Constitution. There are certain requirements one must abide by in order to start the naturalization process. First are the technical requirements which is age and marital status. “You are eligible if you are at least eight-teen years of age and have been a permanent resident for five years without leaving the United States for six months or longer. You may also apply if you are at least eight-teen years old and have been married to and living with U.S. citizen for at least three years”(USCIS).
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An important part of becoming an American is of course the language requirement. The person looking to obtain citizenship must go through a written and oral evaluation. In order to become naturalized you need to be able to read, write, and speak basic English. This is an important aspect because English is currently the dominant language throughout this country, and in order to show aspiration to become a citizen English is needed. Along with the language requirement you must have good knowledge and understanding of the United States history and Government. USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) officers will test the person up to 10 civic questions in English and the recipient must answer at least six question correctly.
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Once you fulfill these requirements that are extremely relevant to the process of becoming a citizen the next step is to complete an application and collect necessary documentation. Although the application is tedious and you will get interviewed on some of the questions, it is crucial that the applicant answers truthfully. This step helps the officers get a good idea on who should remain eligible for citizenship. If your application is passed a few remaining steps include photographs of yourself, fingerprints, and the send of all applications and fees for review. Finally if the officers believe you are citizenship material you will receive a pass decision and take the Oath of Allegiance in a ceremony setting.
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costing over $1,000 and taking approximately six months from the date the application is filed. However it will take any where between 16-18 months for the application to process. This lengthy and costly process insure that all passed applicants who receive citizenship are truly worthy of becoming an American. America is a nation of different cultures, backgrounds, and people. Our strength comes from every American citizen born or naturalized here in the United States. If our naturalization process is weak it will reflect upon our country as a whole. By becoming a citizen of the United States you gain numerous benefits and rights that make this whole process worthwhile. “The united states Constitution allows both citizens and non-citizens rights but only some rights can be fulfilled with citizenship”(USCIS).
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For instance only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, are eligible for a Federal job, and can become an elected official. You now have access to a U.S. passport and this allows any assistance from the U.S. government should you need it. Among all these benefits none seem to make more sense than the rights you gain not only for you but also for your family. Simply put in A Guide to Naturalization, “In most cases, a child born abroad to a U.S. citizen is automatically a U.S. citizen”(USCIS). Also in the act of bringing family members to the United States Citizens get priority when petitioning to bring family to the U.S. permanently. Many immigrants want better for their families so they will do what ever it takes to get them to America. Some of the more basic benefits of becoming a citizen are being able to demonstrate your patriotism and feel proud about what you have accomplished.
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The United States in comparison to the rest of the world larks someplace in the middle as to how long and hard the process of becoming a citizen is. Each country holds it’s place in a very complex system of gaining citizenship. The United States I would say is about average when it comes to how many years of residency it takes to be eligible for an application. Our countries naturalization process stands at a suitable balance between time and difficulty. It shows that if you can finish the process you are worthy of citizenship.
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The Naturalization process is a difficult process to complete regardless. As an American citizen I feel that because of our strenuous program of becoming a citizen of the United States we are sifting through all the immigrants that are potentially hazardous to American society. If you make the process of Naturalization any easier you will allow dangerous criminals to slip through the cracks and therefore gain American rights and we then have to treat these immigrant criminals under American law. I can confidently say that with having a strict Naturalization process it fully benefits U.S. citizens and if any crimes are committed as you are a illegal alien you are then deported from the U.S. The future of the United States is todays immigrants. They have hopes and dreams for their families just like those of families that migrated here generations ago.
Topic: immigration

This paper will take a crucial interest in the migration story of my parents Barbara Heinemann and Kirby Clark and their story in relation to determine the factors that shaped the migration and resettlement of migrants in the 1980’s and the Australian government’s policies and desires. How the processes of alienation and assimilation impacted migrants who originated from a western culture and how approval and ‘mateship’ was challenging to discover in Australians. I will do this while comparing the similarities that other migrants in Australia and around the globe faced and various migration patterns in the 1980’s.
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From what I knew at the time, Australia wasn’t affected almost as much as Canada was so I decided I ‘d attempt my luck in Australia on a 2 year working/holiday.” (). Lots of such companies were being motivated by the Australian government to bring immigrants with “particular Expert skills, company experience” (). A lot of the people that decided to take up the chance offered by organisations like PricewaterhouseCoopers never ever planned on remaining in Australia.” When I initially arrived I believed I ‘d always be going home, like many of individuals I dealt with were expats they all believed they were going to go house after their visa was up”().
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“ By the time I left Canada the recessions was pretty much over. I was in a rut, I wanted something new and a 2 year working/holiday in Australia was my way out, but when I arrived I saw that the recession wasn’t over in Australia” (). Australia’s ‘clever country’ policies made it easy for skilled migrants to obtain permanent residence. “Almost all of the people we worked with at PwC, who where expats decided to stay, we were practically handed permanent residency” ().In the 1980’s the government’s desire to develop the financial sectors and technological sectors saw an increase in demand for workers and an increase in income to those who worked in them. “migration policies refocused on highly skilled workers, whether permanent or temporary” (). Skilled workers were in high demand all over the world and Australia being so isolated could only have decreased the desire for people to move there but the Australian government may have had one of the best immigrant ‘recruitment’ policies due to the huge percentage of skilled workers that it took in comparison to some other countries.
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Australia became home to any new migrant families in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, many of the temporary workers applied and received permanent residency. “Almost all of the expats at PwC stayed in Australia, and most of them married each other or an Australian.” (). Australia has become one of the world’s most diverse countries if not number one or two. 24 percent of Australia’s population was born overseas and another 26 percent have one or bother parents born overseas. This number will only increase with children from the migrants that arrived in the 1980’s and 1990’s becoming old enough to be part of the statistics. At most schools it seems to be a higher percentage than 26 that have parents from overseas and around the same as 24 that were born overseas.
Topic: immigration

In the 1980’s migrants decided to stay in Australia and to make it their home as no one was from the same place their lives together were in Australia “ Me being Canadian and my wife being English we didn’t have a shared home other than Australia. We both love it here why would we think of moving to either of the others?” (nkob). “ I’m from Toronto in Canada and Barbara is from Vancouver, we didn’t have a shared history in Canada, we came to Australia at different times but we’d made ourselves a home here, we’d gotten married in 1988, bought a house in 1989 and had a son in 1991” (). After about 5-10 years many migrants who arrived in the 1980’s realised that they probably wouldn’t be going back home to live.
Topic: immigration

For many it would have been an hard concept to deal with. “I know that after about 3 years I thought I probably wouldn’t be going back to Canada but it didn’t really hit me till I was here for the 7th year” (). “I always thought I’d be going home until my son was about 5, I decided that this is our home now. I’ll probably go home more when my parents get older and are unable to take care of themselves” (). Many of the skilled temporary workers thought they’d be going back to their homeland but most didn’t, about 75 percent of the staff at PricewaterhouseCoopers that came from overseas went home after their 2 years. “I only remember about four people going back to their home countries.” ()
Topic: immigration

All migrants face some Alienation when they arrive in a new country. Even people who come from ‘western’ countries feel some sort of alienation. It may not have been culturally that they had problems. Socially the migrants that were seen as temporary were not accepted their Australian co-workers didn’t see the point of getting to know them if they were here temporarily. “The expats stayed together most of the time. The Australians weren’t rude but they just didn’t care it took years to get to know an Australian from work, I was only temporary in their eyes. The Australians were also into buying a house and setting up their families. Most of the expats were here to party, it was called a working/holiday for a reason, we’d go out together most nights of the week” (). The new migrants didn’t know where to go or what to do in Australia. “I’m sure I would of figured life out by myself but all newcomers were taken under an others wing shown where to go and which places were the cheapest and the best” (). Some of the migrants are still feel alienated today.
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They’re not from a different ethnic background from many Australians. The difference is there isn’t a Canadian or an Irish or an English community. “In some ways it may have been easier to come here from a country where many of people have come earlier. I have been living in Australia for 23 years and I still get asked how long I’m visiting for, or where in the states I’m from” (). They may not be discriminated against but as soon as they open their mouths many of the migrants get labelled as temporary. Assimilation was also something that these migrants had to overcome, most Australians at the time that were the same age as most skilled migrants were starting to settle down, buy houses and starting families. “we didn’t really have much contact with Australians our age they were either younger or older at either ends of their professional carriers.” ().
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Many kept part of the culture from their homeland with them or their previous routine. “In Canada I played Ice hockey at a high level and for the first 6 or 7 years I was in Australia I continued to play, becoming all Australian a few times. I remember Paul played rugby at a high level in Ireland and continued that here as well.” Being considered Australian is a hard thing for a lot of migrants to deal with psychologically “I don’t have a home country, I’m more of a global citizen, I’m a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident in Australia but I wouldn’t call either my home. I’m a Canadian in Australia and an Australian in Canada.” ()Assimilation in Australia is hard to define with there being so much diversity it maybe not be a big issue with people having to assimilate with Australian culture if they already come from a ‘western’ cultured country.
Topic: immigration

During the 1980’s migrants were migrating in the search for jobs and to escape from prosecution. Canada, America and Australia had a huge influx of Asian people predominantly from Hong Kong and Taiwan ,“about 50 percent of peopled the immigrated to Australia in the 1980’s were from Asia”(). In the 1980’s and 1990’s a large number of immigrants that arrived in Australia came from Asian, Middle Eastern countries and India. “When I first arrived I didn’t see that many migrants that were from Asia, particularly Indian people in comparison to the number in Canada but over the next 6 or so years I saw a huge increase of Asian, Indian and Middle Eastern people around the city” ().
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Australia was being ‘Asianised’ not as in a invasion but that instead of most migrants being from Europe many more where coming from Asia and the government was being more accepting to non Anglophone people. “When I first arrived Australia wasn’t a multicultural country in comparison to what id experienced in Canada, but as time went on it became very diverse very quickly. It became the Australia they had been promoting.” In the financial sector most of the immigrants were from Europe or North America but in the Information technology sectors the Asian and Indian people were the majority. “Most of the people that came to PwC where I was working were from the UK/Ireland, Germany or North America but in the Tech department I don’t think there was a person that wasn’t Chinese or Indian” ().
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The reason why countries were looking for skilled migrants, migrants with capital and entrepreneurial migrants was that these migrants usually such migrants would find a niche for themselves, perhaps as initiators of the new industries (). Migrants are people willing to change their lives in an instant. Someone who’s willing to leave their homeland and go out into the world, move half way around the world and try their hand at something is someone to be admired. Migrant families also tend to not stay in one spot for long or usually someone in the family makes a similar decision as one of
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Although my grandparents moved to Canada from England, I never knew them but from a young age I had a desire to see the world, may have been from the stories from Bob our next door neighbour, none of my brothers or sisters moved away from home.” () Is being a migrant hereditary? It seems that people whose parents have migrated or family members have migrated before are predisposed to do so themselves. “ Do I think it’s genetically inherited no I think it’s a frame of mind and previous experiences. My parents moved from Germany to Canada after World War II, the fact that they were migrants didn’t persuade me to go in anyway but the face that I’d travelled a lot when I was younger did have an effect on me I always entertained the thought that I might not be a Canadian forever.” ()
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It may also be the fact that people that are 1st generation citizens of their country don’t actually identify themselves with that country. “I was born in Canada but because both my parents are German, I considered myself more German then Canadian which makes it much more confusing for me now living in Australia whether I am Australian, Canadian or German.” () “Both my parents are Canadian when I talk about home I talk about Canada despite the fact that I never lived there and I was born in Australia, at school I was always considered Canadian. I don’t think I’ll be in Australia much longer, there’s so much more out there to experience!”()
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This essay has explored what factors shaped the migration and resettlement of my family and skilled migrants in the 1980’s. It also discussed the processes of alienation and assimilation that skilled migrants faced in the 1980’s placing particular emphasis on temporary workers. Whilst comparing both of these with other migrants in Australia and worldwide and other migration trends. Finally I will explore how migrants differ and what influences people to migrate and the effect it has on the next generation and their beliefs and the disposition they have into becoming migrants themselves.
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S. Would you favor granting them amnesty since they are working or make them leave and file the proper forms and papers? 2. Do you believe the U.S. is doing enough to prevent undocumented workers from sneaking into the country? 3. Would you favor a cap on the number of immigrants entering the U.S. and why? 4. What do you think are some of the economic effects—positive and negative—of having so many immigrants living in the U.S.? Now that I’m going to be graduating high school this year my concern for finding a job could be harder due to undocumented workers.
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In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social forces of immigration and industrialization that shape literature during the period of 1865 to 1912. I will describe the major literary movements of the period. Additionally I will explain how Realism and Naturalism influenced the literature of the period, how immigration and industrialization contributed to the influences. I will illustrate using examples from some of the greatest authors of the period. Immigration and Industrialization The United States’ population grew quickly in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Baym (2008) et al. write that there were 38.5 million people in 1870 and had grown to 92 million in 1910. This growth resulted mostly from immigration. People came from countries all over the world but predominantly from European and Asian nations. Immigration was also the major cause for urbanization in the United States according to Baym et al. (2008) with a dramatic proportional shift from a mostly rural population to a larger city population. Simultaneously with this mass immigration industrialization was happening creating an abundance of factory jobs and building immense wealth for some while also creating dramatic divides in society.
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Baym et al. (2008) describe the situation: “Long-settled white Americans faced newly arrived white people across divides of power, income, and privilege – worker against owner, farm against city, immigrant against native-born, leading to suspicion and social turbulence on a scale that the nation had not seen” (p. 3). The consequences were labor struggles resulting from terrible working conditions. Immigration brought an abundance of workers resulting in low wages as well as “inhumane and dangerous working conditions” (Baym et al.
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Conflict also arose from farmers being pushed off their land by the railroads and competition between native-born citizens and immigrants. There was also increased suspicion and resentment between the social classes likely based on fear of losing their “part of the cake” for the upper and middle classes, whereas the lower class was resentful because of how they were treated. Major Literary Movements The major literary movements during this period were realism and naturalism emerging after a long period of idealism and romanticism.
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Realism shifted literature to a way of describe life as it actually is instead of trying to present an idealized or romantic image. It was an objective style that offered detached perspectives on the everyday lives of the middle-class, working-class and the poor. This style worked well for describing the struggles of the period. Baym et al. (2008) describe W. D. Howells as the “chief American advocate” of realism (p. 6). Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and others also joined in this movement as well as some distinguished African American writers such as W. E.
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B Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Baym et al. , 2008). The nature of Naturalism has been debated as being the opposite of realism or as “extension or intensification of realism” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 7). Naturalism usually describes more extreme settings and circumstances than realism and focuses on harsher conditions and poorer characters. Baym et al. (2008) suggest that while characters in realistic works often overcome difficulties, in naturalistic pieces the characters never stand a chance. It is a much more pessimistic literary style than realism.
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Crane, Dreiser, London, and Norris are described by Baym et al. (2008) as the leading American naturalistic writers of the period. How Realism and Naturalism Influenced Literature Realism had an immense influence on the literature during this period. Mark Twain was one of the major authors and his “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is an excellent example of his style, which became regarded as a leading piece for the “American style” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 6). Twain used colloquial speech and his writing style puts the reader in the position of participant, almost as if in a dialogue with Huck.
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It is a very intimate and informal way of writing. Huckleberry Finn is uneducated and sees the world through the lens of his own experience as well as the social circumstances and mores of the time. In chapter 23 of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Huck ponders about Jim, his African American companion on his adventure: “He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks do for their’n.
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It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it is so” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 204). This passage realistically illustrates the view of a young boy at the time who only knows the world through the social context of his time and place, which included slavery and a very derogatory view of African Americans. Twain was very critical and pessimistic about humankind and his writing often reflected this. However with Huck Finn he appears to be attempting to show that even an uneducated young boy in the 1840s could be open-minded and open-hearted enough to see that people are equals.
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Henry James writes about “Daisy Miller,” a young American woman who is a new kind of modern girl. She does not appear to care about the established rules and mores of the time and is both bold and naive in her demeanor. Baym et al. (2008) write that James shows his nature as “a true cosmopolitan concerned with exploring American national character as it is tested by cultural displacement” (p. 317). James is painting a picture of the old and established strict rules of social class and position and how they become a hindrance in forming true connection between people.
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The established upper- and middle-class look down on the lower class and the up-and-comers. The result is miscommunication, suspicion, and conflict. Jack London was one of the leading naturalist writers of his time. In his essay “What Life Means to me” he describes his own experience as a working class youngster who toiled in a variety of jobs until finally he had enough of heavy labor and became a vagrant for a while (Baym et al. , 2008).
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He describes how he found himself at the bottom of society and how in that place “life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 582). He was keenly aware of the inequalities and injustice that industrialization had brought for the working class. He writes that he realizes that a laborer is finished and broken down at 45 or 50 while an intellectual, “a brain seller” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 584) comes into his prime at that age or later.
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He decides to educate himself to make a difference both for himself and for the working class dear to his heart. London eventually encountered and the Socialist movement and describes in joyful terms finding “warm faith in then human, glowing idealism, sweetness of unselfishness, renunciation, and martyrdom – all the splendid, stinging things of the spirit” (Baym et al. , 2008, p. 584). He was a masterful naturalist writer describing in exquisite detail and with a detached, scientific narrative how the man slowly succumbs to the cold and freezes to death in his short story “To Build a Fire.
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”Clearly his own experiences in Alaska had provided him with great fodder for this kind of story. Conclusion In this paper I discussed and analyzed the social forces of immigration and industrialization that shaped literature during the period of 1865 to 1912. I described the major literary movements of the period. Additionally I explained how Realism and Naturalism influenced the literature of the period and illustrated with examples from some of the greatest writers of that time. References Baym, N. (Ed. ). (2008). The Norton anthology of American literature (Shorter 7th ed. , Vol. 2). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
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Thousands of immigrants were forced to leave their countries of origin in the mid-1800s for different reasons: political, war, religious persecution, unemployment, and food shortages. When they learn that in America exists the hope of a new beginning they did not hesitate to take this opportunity. In an unprecedented wave, immigrants left their countries and embarked with a suitcase full of dreams without having the slightest suspicion of the battles that were to bear them because of discrimination. Moreover, the journey to America was very risky in which many of them died during the trip (North Site, 2015).
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We must recognize that the impact of migration has played an important role in the development of America during the nineteenth century from industrialization to agriculture and transportation. Of course, these was not all entirely positive for immigrants, bringing unprecedented levels of anti-immigration feelings, feared of loss of job position, territory, and possible loss of national identity. However, despite all these obstacles the immigrants continued to struggle to improve their situation at time of adversity (Hirschman, 2006).
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The creation in 1894 of The Immigration Restriction League had one purpose in mind, slow down the flow of illiterate immigrants to America by giving them a literacy test (Hirschman, 2006). Despite all these obstacles, immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany were established in areas that they felt more comfortable playing a determinant role in the economy and in the establishment of farms. The Irish, on the other hand, were devoted to work in the cities where they were the main source of labor in the construction of transportation network including canals, railroads, and roads. The immigrant labor, without a doubt, provides the pool of labor that is needed in every corner from the garment shop in New York up to the stockyard of Chicago (Hirschman, 2006).
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The influx of immigrants to America was not limited to Ellis Island but the phenomenon also had its impact on the American West Coast specifically California. Trades made with countries in the Pacific have influenced the movement of migration in places like China and Japan, triggering an increase in the immigrant entrance to America. Of course, the story was repeated as that of the Europeans, by imposing entry restrictions to the Asians for fear that they were taking all the jobs available in America (Allerfeldt, 2003). The main reason for the Chinese to leave their country was due to the crops failure which sparked a famine in 1852. Once California was reached, most of the Chinese immigrants dispersed to work in the gold mines, where they faced harsh discrimination.