ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: immigration

I see birthright citizenship as making a mockery of those whose journey to citizenship was a difficult and long one. Charles Wood, legal counsel to the United States Senate Immigration Subcommittee from 1995-97, 1985 and 1979-82, wrote a report on his experience titled, “Losing Control of America’s Future — the Census, Birthright Citizenship, and Illegal Aliens”. In this report, Woods revealed that of the Hispanic women who gave birth in San Diego County from 1991-92, at least 15% of them specifically came to the United States to give birth. Two-thirds of those women said they did so in order that their children would become citizens. (“Losing Control of America’s Future.”)
Topic: immigration

I’m not a constitutional authority, but it seems to me that no person who wishes to claim citizenship in the United States can also swear an oath to another country or be subject to another country’s laws. People who enter our country illegally are still subject to the laws of their home country. In addition, when they enter illegally they are in defiance of US immigration law. They are, in fact, still citizens of another country. The Supreme Court has never ruled substantially that those children born from illegal immigrants should be automatically granted citizenship. (“Ending Birthright Citizenship Does Not Require a Constitutional Amendment.”)
Topic: immigration

My grandparents (on my father’s side,) emigrated from Italy after the second World War. My grandfather, interestingly enough, served in the Italian navy during that same war. They would both tell us stories of their journey to the United States, and how they became American citizens. The path to citizenship for them was not an easy one. My grandfather was a prisoner of war for almost two years but had nothing but good things to say about how he was treated, and his desire to come to the United States. They were both so proud to be Americans, but also very proud of their Italian heritage. How they see present immigration issues has colored my view on these issues as well. They are both far from political, but they see an inherent unfairness in what some people call “illegal immigrants.” They wonder why all immigration is not conducted exactly the way they did it, legally.
Topic: immigration

I am truly not anti-immigration, since the United States is a nation of immigrants. We are a compassionate nation and people. I don’t believe we as citizens wish to see people suffering. Acts of kindness and charity, it seems, are too few and far in between. We have all seen pictures and heard stories of families wishing a better life for their loved ones. The intentions of many of these people and families are well taken. I was and still are friends with class mates who came to this country in search of a better life. Parents wish for their children the same in all countries, health and happiness. They see the United States as that “beacon of hope”. I am a second-generation Italian/American, so I am sympathetic to those wanting to emigrate here and their desire to live in United States.
Topic: immigration

I also see our country as a country of laws. I understand these laws are subject to interpretation. However, our government has the power and the duty to say who can be a citizen of the United States and has a responsibility to uphold the Constitution. On the issue of birthright citizenship, it is clear the meaning of the Citizenship Clause, as originally understood, is conflicted. Congress can and should make the legislative solutions necessary to correct this problem and create clear immigration laws that are fair to everyone including those who are here illegally and those who seek entry to, as my grandfather described, “the greatest country in the
Topic: immigration

The University of San Diego hosted a panel of professors as they discussed the results of the 2018 Midterm Elections. These speakers included representatives of USD’s Political Science and International Relations Department Even Crawford, PhD, and Casey Dominguez, PhD, as well as San Diego State University professor Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, PhD. The seminar consisted of three topics, each handled by one of the participating professors. Dr. Crawford compared voter turnout prior to and after the 2018 midterms. Dr. Dominguez measured the impact of the midterms and how that will affect the future of the presidency.
Topic: immigration

This was also their first opportunity going to the polls and many states have intricate rules about voting, especially for those who had to fill out an absentee ballot. With some of these obstacles intact, what compelled many youths to become registered voters? One may suggest that the increased turnout was to reflect disproval of President Trump and his administrations’ handling of their duties. Another would point to current events such as the Parkland, Florida shooting, thus enticing young voters to make their voices audible. Perhaps the gargantuan push to advertise the midterms raised enough awareness on multiple social media platforms to propel many voters toward the polls.
Topic: immigration

Dr. Dominguez shared the consequential effects of the midterms and how that will affect President Trump’s agenda. What does it mean for the Democrats to hold a majority in the House? By my understanding, the political environment will change due to a shift in power favoring members of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives. With Nancy Pelosi to be the (likely) Speaker of the House, there will be multiple subpoenas and investigations targeted at the President. In addition, a legislative paralysis may come in affect, leading to a gridlock as bills will find difficulty being passed by both the House and Senate. Perhaps the most interesting argument Dr. Dominguez made was that there is a deeper initiative if House Democrats went ahead with proposing new pieces of legislature, even though it will get turned down by the Senate. Their purpose would be to prove to their base that they will actively oppose Trump. I find this tactic undesirable, mainly because it dissolves any opportunity for bipartisanship. This proves yet another example of the divisive times we live in. Rather than working on a solution that may appease both sides, efforts are made to tear down the other party.
Topic: immigration

What significance do Republicans have in obtaining a tighter grip of the Senate? With the scope of their power now expanded in the Senate, Republicans will continue to aid Trump in reshaping the federal judiciary. I would argue that this election was the final act to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was targeted with several accusations of rape. Red state Democratic Senators who voted against Kavanaugh’s confirmation lost their position during the midterms. However, Senator Joe Manchin, a Democratic Senator from West Virginia, was reelected strongly in part for supporting the current Justice. Perhaps the much hyped “blue wave” was an exaggeration.
Topic: immigration

Similar to what Dr. Dominguez was speaking on, Dr. Gonzalez O’Brien also gave implications of the effects on America’s political system changing, however, his topic was more concerned with immigration policy. I though he echoed much of the former when reminding us that Democrats can put a dent in President Trump’s agenda now that they have majority control in Congress yet acknowledging that they don’t have a united vision on immigration. When discussing this issue, each party is pulled further away from each other, forcing moderates to stand firm on either side of the isle. A tribal-like mindset inhibits any cooperation and ultimately leads to nothing getting accomplished.
Topic: immigration

To close, the political panel offered an informative view regarding the effects of the midterms and how the Trump administration will deliver its agenda for the following two years. While a political party’s possession and loss of power is caught in an endless cycle, a surge in young voter participation remarks a significant change in demographics. Millennials will be considered the largest voting bloc in due time. Choices made by this group of voters may leave a large impact in America’s political realm as their presence will decide the outcome of elections to come.
Topic: immigration

If we focus on the Canadian workforce, we can probably see that there are major two groups who are mostly contributing to the Canadian workforce. One is the immigrants and the other group is Canadian born. Additionally, almost 50% of Canada’s populace is anticipated to be comprised of migrants and second-age people that is non-foreigners within any event one parent brought into the world abroad in 2036. This offer was 38.2% in 2011. Settlers’ commitment to Canada’s economy and society proceeds, and this commitment is required to increment in a setting of relentless populace maturing.
Topic: immigration

Projections demonstrate that movement will remain a noteworthy supporter of future statistic development. Beginning in 2031, over 80% of this development is anticipated to originate from migration, contrasted with about 67% in 2011. In any case, the same number of source-nations of foreigners to Canada have been confronting comparable patterns of populace maturing coming from their very own statistic progress more countries with more seasoned populaces and low birth rates will rival Canada for youthful, gifted and versatile laborers.
Topic: immigration

Interpersonal skills are the incredible weapons individuals use to interface and speak with people in a hierarchical environment. Interpersonal skills are capacities that can transmute and transpose over each range of our lives. There is certifiably not a solitary aspect of our experience that these abilities won’t be of use! Interacting with individuals having a place with different jobs, industry, areas and so on makes an individual mindful of various ways a choice influences the general work of the association. This makes him/her take in basic leadership from others experience.
Topic: immigration

Anyone who is proactive in playing out his/her job is esteemed by the organization. Interpersonal skills of a person play vital role in developing leadership skills as they need to foresee the upcoming challenge and communicate, delegate, handle their teams to face the situation. Interaction with others builds up the relational abilities as well as changes the point of view while conceptualizing. An individual can discover various arrangements quicker and in simpler manner. Through long stretches of work, an individual adapts better characteristics, conduct, correspondence design, standard practices and so forth which normally teach certainty. Such people are esteemed by the organizations as they comprehend that their workers speak to their association all things considered. Interpersonal skills aren’t simply relationship building abilities. They’re fundamental abilities. They help us impart and identify with others. We fabricate the extensions with others that make our lives, and the lives of those we collaborate with, simpler, more straightforward and better.
Topic: immigration

Great leaders are made and not born. If anyone have the desire and determination, he or she can become an effective leader. Good leaders create through a ceaseless procedure of self-think about, instruction, preparing, and experience. To motivate their workers into more elevated amounts of cooperation, there are sure things leader must be, know, and, do. It doesn’t easily fall into place; however, they are gained through constant work and study. Great leaders are over and over working and examining to improve their administration abilities; they are not laying on their shrubs. Leadership is a procedure by which an individual impact other to accomplish a goal and coordinates the association such that makes it progressively interconnected and predictable. Leadership is a sorted-out procedure whereby an individual impact a gathering of people to accomplish a shared objective. Leadership practices can be communicated in numerous specific circumstances and at a wide range of social positions. It includes different blends of intensity, for example, coordinating the consideration of others, and the ability/power to control, guide, impact, support or force the conduct and estimations of others.
Topic: immigration

Leadership and power are two closely related concepts. Power has played an important role in leadership practices. Leadership means power. We think that leadership may not be conceived without power. While an individual can exercise power without being a leader, an individual may not be a leader without power. Leadership is the exercise of power; therefore, leaders must develop the proper bases of organizational power in order to use it effectively and efficiently in influencing others. Scholars such as French and Raven, Kruglanski, Hersey and Marshall Goldsmith suggested that there are seven different bases of power: (Daugherty & Williams, 2009). -Legitimate/ Position Power; Expertise Power; Relationship Power; Informational Power; Referent Power; Coercive Power; Reward Power.
Topic: immigration

Followers have an equally important role in the success of the organization. Both roles can be active (Hollander, 1992) which means that there is a mutual influence. Leaders and followers influence each other, and both can be dynamics of leadership and followers is the same. Those who can lead in some cases may follow in some other cases. Most managers play both roles. (Kelley, 1988) Leadership is a reciprocal relationship, where followers play an active role, at the same time they influence and are influenced by leaders. It is often perceived that power is possessed only by leaders. Scholars have found that power is a function of leaders, followers, and situations. In other words, power is a function of the relationship. According to Foucault power must be analyzed as something that circulates (Scott & Hirschkind, 2006). Today it is possessed by you but tomorrow it may be in the hands of others. Power is exercised within the network and in this network, individuals not only circulate but also, they move continuously from the position of one who suffers the power, in that of one who exercises it (Foucault, 2009).
Topic: immigration

Home (2006) the protagonist, Nisha rebels against the old family system. When her love affair with Suresh comes to light she has to face many quarries and each member of her family looks with suspicious. In one stage she becomes a successful business woman who deals the salwar suits. She is ready to adjust her life with another man. She marries thirty four year manglik widower, Arvind. She plays different roles such as wife, daughter in law, mother, and business woman. When she gives birth to twins, she rejoices the ecstasy of married life.
Topic: immigration

In Custody (2011) the novelist depicts the life of Metropolitan cities where people have become the targets of modernity. She highlights the themes of marriage, extramarital affairs, infidelity, and manipulation of children. Raman and Shagun are couple with two children, Shagun develops a passionate affair with Ashok, the boss. When she asks Raman for divorce, he refuses the divorce so his wife kidnaps her son Arjun, and daughter Roohi, for the sake of getting the divorce.
Topic: immigration

The Immigrant (2008) is set in the seventies in the period between Indira Gandhi in India and Pierre Trudeau in anada. India at that time was going through much social and political reform. In order to avoid such political and social climate in India many Indians decided to move to Canada. This is one of the reasons for Nina to move to Canada. It was around the 1960s and 1970s US and Canada changed their immigration policies for Asians. They were ready to accepted new comers with open arms.
Topic: immigration

The novelist has exposed the grief of her protagonist in the foreign land. Here the author clearly represents the alienation and nostalgia felt by an NRI which is an experience of her own homesickness when she studied at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she got her Master of Arts in English. Like Nina the female protagonist of the novel, Kapur also graduated from Miranda House University College for Women, and she is also teaching English literature at her alma mater in Miranda House. In her interview with Sukhmani Khorana Kapur describes her experience as a scholar in Canada: “I experienced being away from India when I was a student in Canada in my youth, so I wanted to write about it. I recall feeling alienated and being nostalgic for the foods and objects that I took for granted at home. I chose to return to India” .
Topic: immigration

Nina faces the problem of settlement in Canada. She believes that she will control all the things and definitely have a better future in the foreign country. Ananda and Nina are the newly married couple, struggle to modify their life in Canadian society. Ananda continuously says to Nina about the difference of the countries. Actually, he determines of foreign lifestyle. But, Nina is still new to the country. On the contrary, Ananda never welcomes the traditional behaviour of Nina. She really confuses whether to wear traditional or western clothes. While analyzing the values of Indian and Western, remarks Ashok Kumar says:
Topic: immigration

Even though the country is completely unknown, she always imagines her better future. She thinks that the education provides her life filled with beautiful thing so Nina wants to get an admission in Library field. She feels differently when she attends the classes of library degree and her first friendship experience with a white man, Anton. Afterwards in the company of Anton, Nina feels freedom and there is no burden of responsibility. Though she encounters the extra martial affairs, she has no guilt about this affair.
Topic: immigration

Life was tough and just my father working was not going well. I was about thirteen years old and my brother, two years older than me, we also had to work at an early age. My aunt was a supervisor in some big restaurant where she got me and my brother a job. During the day we went to school and during the night I was working in the restaurant as a dishwasher and my brother was a storekeeper. I was not good in school, but I was a hard worker. Usually, I was working more hours than my brother, but that didn’t go far. I got malaria and after that; I was in and out of school, only my last year of high school was left when I dropped out. I worked full time as a waiter and my brother was going to college while working part-time.
Topic: immigration

At the end of 2012 we immigrated to Canada, when we got to the airport, I saw many relatives whom I have only seen in the photos and I don’t recognize most. Back then, I couldn’t see the difference in our life from Pakistan to here, Canada but now I see that. Canada changed our lives. It gave us the freedom, free education, and the support one needs. Canada has a strong legal system and a lot of respect for the law. It is the second-largest country in the world which has many cultures you can literally pick which suits your needs the best.
Topic: immigration

United states has been in an economy partnership with many foreign countries over years. Our top 3 trade partners are China, Canada, and Mexico. Over past years our economy has dropped and we started to drift into a lot of dept. Past two years it has improved and we are finally back in the game and making profits. Overall relationships with these economy giants are great, until it comes to crime, illegal immigration and drug smuggling. United States president came up with an idea and that was to build a border wall between us and our neighbors Mexico.
Topic: immigration

Now days majority of Mexican citizens seek for a better life and try to escape from their motherland on any possible way. Because of a long United States immigration process, most of these people try to enter US on illegal way. Then situations like this make our president afraid of overpopulation and lack of jobs due to immigrants taking over our country. That being said, this statement by Donald Trump did not make any sense, if people are here illegally that means that they can’t legally work either and there shouldn’t be any fear of US citizens jobs being taken over by illegal refuges. One of his first campaigns Trump called out Mexicans and really shook media and whole US with his comments. “Donald Trump has mentioned Mexico frequently since his first day on the campaign trail. The GOP nominee’s first controversial campaign remarks on the country came in his presidential announcement speech, when he called some Mexican immigrants “rapists” and criminals.”(Kopan) Post the final presidential debate, we finally got our new president, Donald J. Trump. Donald kept on judging Mexicans. He keept on accusing them how all of the trouble comes from them and stated many other examples related to braking the law. Reasons like this, made the Mexican nation extremely angry because not all of them are the same people and it is unfair that they as a nation have to take the blame.
Topic: immigration

Walls construction would have a big impact on United States today. The calculated length should be near thousand miles long. Building a wall could harm our country in many ways. Economy drop would be first and the biggest problem USA would face. Just thinking of wall itself it might sound like something that should protect and help out in safety but when you look at it ask yourself, will US ever even benefit from this plan? “Mexico is the third largest destination of U.S. goods and services after Canada. In 2012, U.S. exports to Mexico totaled $216 billion more than U.S. exports to Japan and China combined. Close to 80 percent of bilateral trade crosses the U.S.-Mexico land border every day. Six million U.S. jobs are supported by bilateral trade with Mexico, which means that one in 24 workers depend on U.S.-Mexico trade (Marczak).Closing border with this gigantic wall might not be the brightest idea. Trade and business in general would become a big struggle. As it has been proven, Mexico is one of the most important trade partners to USA. Looking at stats they ended up being our 3rd largest trade colleagues in entire world. This states that most of our goods and profit is made from trade with Mexico. Overall, annually about $525 billion dollars’ worth of goods is transported and traded between borders. This nearly half a trillion dollars sums up to about 14% of the whole United States trade market, which might not seem a whole lot but in reality we are talking billions on billions of dollars. So far America has developed approximately 653 miles long wall on the Texas border. If the wall keeps on expending within next few years, we might slowly start to lose relationship between us and South American countries. Building the wall would be an horrible idea. I think everyone is aware of that and the only thing that’s going to bring us a result is harm. As president is aware of possible drastic drop of our economy, he opposed to rest of our government members and stated that Americas security is the number one priority. “President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that closing the southern border with Mexico could damage the United States economy, but said protecting America’s security was more important than trade.”(Swanson/Tankersley)
Topic: immigration

Although US citizens were promised border security wall, due to no funds wall hasn’t made any progress yet “The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.” (Ainsley) Who would think that building of a wall could be so expensive? Well when it comes to material looks like it could cost anywhere from at least $8 billion and go up to as high as $40 billion dollars. Later on Homeland Security did its calculation and estimated that it shouldn’t cost any more than $20 billion including labor. Overall 60% of the nation was against the border wall. Due to lack of funds, Trump switched up stories and counter attacked with new ideas. He came up with an idea of building a wall from steel and at the same time boost the steel industry “As President Trump describes it, a steel wall along the Mexican border isn’t just about protecting the country from terrorists and drug dealers. It would also be a boon for big steel, and industry.” (Zarroli) Price of the steel wall would be almost 4 billion dollars less, “Despite congressional Democrats’ opposition to Trump’s demands of $5 billion for a border wall, the president Friday seemed determined to force a government shutdown.”(Schoen) As I mentioned earlier in paragraph, building this border security wall is extremely expensive and overtime won’t get any cheaper. It will have a huge effect on our countries business, income, and relations with other trademarked countries. If wall ends up being built, the United States will most likely end up in more debt. So far our country has been doing just fine when it comes to Mexican border. I do not see a need for border wall or any kind of additional barricades. We as a nation need to build relationship with our biggest economy partners instead of pushing them away.
Topic: immigration

By building the wall not all of the problems would be solved, for example drug smuggling. Ever since 1989 Mexico has used underground channels or crawlways. “April 2016, U.S. law enforcement officials discovered a drug tunnel that ran more than half a mile from Tijuana to San Diego and was equipped with ventilation vents, rails, and electricity.”( Brown-Felbab) By 2019 illegal immigration and smuggling drastically increased, so did the number of the underground tunnels. This is just an example that building a border wall wouldn’t get us anywhere besides additional costs and waste of money. Also by securing border patrol with this lengthy fence, it would be impossible to stop every vehicle coming from Mexico and have it searched at the border. It’s just impossible financially and also would take forever. Other smuggling methods would be drones and drainage system between near towns. This is just a few examples showing that drug smuggling is near impossible to be stopped. Our homicide rate is one of the highest ones in the world. Building a border wall wouldn’t have much of an impact. It has been proven that by 2.5 times native-born Americans are more likely to commit a crime/murder than an foreign-born resident. “Multiple criminological studies show that foreign-born individuals commit much lower levels of crime than do the native-born.”( Brown-Felbab) Building a wall wouldn’t solve any of these problems. What about all of the illegal immigrants that currently live in USA? In 2018, studies show that in between 16 to 20 million illegal immigrants live in United States. Is wall going to solve this problem? The answer is no.
Topic: immigration

Overall our country is 22 trillion dollars in dept. I’m pretty sure cost for building the wall would just place us in even worse position. Building a wall is not as simple as it sounds. Besides costs to build one here comes the funds for workforce and maintenance. No one is going to work for free and take care of it. Just to maintain that wall it would cost millions of dollars. We would lose one of our biggest economy sources and just dig ourselves deeper into problems. Maybe we could mild this problem on some different way? Maybe just hire more officers and loud up with work force. At the end I think border patrol is good as it is right now. Instead of building walls we should be building relationships.
Topic: immigration

The postmodern writers all over the world assert that their countries possessed a prestigious history, culture, and heritage; and they also valorize the past from which they have drawn the raw materials for their works. The traditional view and territorial entity are the unique characters generated through their migration from one region to the other or from one settlement to another settlement are raw sources of postcolonial and postmodern writers’ work. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, arguing that the outcome of one’s own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative rather than certain or universal.
Topic: immigration

Postmodernism is skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. World Wars, colonialism, the rise of urbanization all these factors led the writers to write about racism, feminism, capitalism which were undoubtedly some crucial matters of the late 19th century. Having said that, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the elements of racism in Samuel Selvon’s postmodern novel The Lonely Londoners.
Topic: immigration

Racist tendencies have been strong in Britain since the arrival of significant number of immigrants after the Second World War. There are inadequacies between the white British people and members of ethnic minorities in Britain, considering employment, housing, income, and so forth. Back in the 1950s 1960s, 1970s and even 1980s, physical assaults on black Caribbean immigrants and other ethnic minorities were quite frequent. Not to claim that in the 1990s and onwards there have been no racially motivated attacks, only there have been fewer of them.
Topic: immigration

However, subtle forms of racism continue in Britain even nowadays as black people are discriminated against when it comes to jobs or housing. For Afro-Caribbean and other black immigrants, it was obvious that racism is a significant problem in Britain. In the beginning, there was very little discussion concerning the issue: Public and political discussions were more about the problems caused by immigrants and uncontrolled immigration than about problems the immigrants themselves face, however, almost all black immigrants experienced some kind of racial discrimination when they lived in Britain. Unfortunately, black immigrants were quite right about white people and their attitudes towards black people. Although immigrants were encouraged in the beginning to come to work in Britain, ordinary people perceived them as a problem. Especially, the working-class people felt threatened because black immigrants largely seek similar jobs and housing as they do. It was the working-class people that had most things in common with them, and they were also most likely to live and work next to them. So, the feelings towards them were hostile in the easiest sense. “It is a crime, all of it. First, they come here where they don’t belong and they know it. Then they want their relatives and their relatives’ relatives. ” All you have to do is look at a map and you can see how small the country is. There isn’t any room for these people” (Marwick,218).
Topic: immigration

Samuel Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners are considered as a milestone in the decolonization of the British novelistic tradition. Elements of racism can be seen all over the novel. The novel is targeted to both groups of readers, the black and also the white people. The white readers can see it as a declaration of the detachment from the culture that always suppressed and underestimated the black people and the black readers in Britain can see it as an encouragement for forming a particular subcultural group that is worth noticing. “The Lonely Londoners depicts the impact not simply of racism in housing and the workplace but of racial fetishism in the sexual arena. Selvon thereby underlines the damaging effects of racism on immigrant cultures on both a material and a psychological plane” (Dawson,30). The situation of every migrated character is surely empathetic. Some of them do not want to be here but had to, in order to earn money for living. Some of them wanted to be heard as they believed and heard of the “American Dream” but as soon as they came to Britain, they realized, that is not the dream they really dreamt. “The empathic humanity of its characters, its inspired critique of racist and social injustice, its profound epistemic negotiations and creolization still outshine the work of later Black and Asian British writers” (Eckstein,1). The only character different from the rest, at least when it comes to language, is Harris. He behaves like Englishmen, dresses like them, and also speaks like them. The narrative comments on it: “Man, when Harris starts to spout English for you, you realize that you don’t really know the language” (Selvon,103). However, the rest of the characters do not approve of his way of speaking and behaving. They believe that he should remember his origin and that he should live according to it because they do not want to change their lifestyle as well. The Afro-Caribbean characters in The Lonely Londoners are willing to live next to the white people of Britain but not like them. They all have a reason for keeping their old lives. Some of them, such as Galahad, because even if they behave like the white Britishers they will always remain black anyway, which basically keeps them away from better lives.
Topic: immigration

Furthermore, an interesting and somewhat problematic issue about the language used in the novel is, that the language is not authentic. “It is not spoken in any part of the Caribbean, it is rather a blend of various different variations and dialects spoken throughout the Caribbean” (Bentley). One of the reasons why Selvon did not usefully Creolized English is quite obvious. He wanted even the speakers of Standard English to be able to read his novel. By using this form of artificial Creole, he managed to accomplish both goals: to make the novel accessible to as many readers as possible but also to use it as a token of distance from the British mainstream culture. Moving ahead, one of the first settings of the novel, the railway station, where many black immigrants are present, either waiting for some relatives or just looking whether someone they know from home arrived, a comment on the situation in Britain appears: “English people starting to make rab about how too much West Indians coming to the country” (Selvon 2). Black immigrants know that they are not welcomed, that white people do not want them in Britain, and that they cannot expect any kind of friendly behavior from them. However, what is quite ironic is the conclusion the black immigrants themselves make. The novel was written in 1956, before any new Commonwealth Immigrants Act was passed and there is a mention that British people complain, however, they are too diplomatic to actually do something about it. Nevertheless, the immigrants were wrong in this respect and only six years later, the new restrictions were introduced. Tanty who just arrives in Britain and does not know about the grudge against the black immigrants has an interview with a white reporter and the next day in the newspaper her picture appears with a headline “Now, Jamaican Families Come to Britain” (Selvon 12). Her nephew Tolroy did not want her to speak to the reporter and he would not speak to him at all because he is already familiar with the atmosphere in Britain. Moreover, even if he wanted to tell him something, like Moses who wanted to take a chance and express himself, he would find out that the newspaperman actually does not care about his opinion. Comments and situations like this appear throughout the novel. Immigrants are less likely to get jobs or they are only hired for unskilled jobs. Because the immigrants fight for every penny, they live in overcrowded second-rate houses. The immigrants acquiesce with the situation as is visible from the episode when Moses tells Galahad that no matter that he is a skilled electrician, he will probably be offered an unskilled job. Moses tries to explain this issue to Galahad who is a newcomer to London:
Topic: immigration

To conclude, the lives of the Caribbean immigrants in the United Kingdom in The Lonely Londoners were not easy at all. They came to Britain expecting great job opportunities but they had trouble in finding jobs because of their skin color and in the end, they had to take jobs that did not correspond to their qualification. They expected that they would earn some money but their jobs were so badly paid that they did not manage to save almost anything. What they did not expect, as can be seen in examples of Galahad and Tanty who are newcomers to Britain, was the hatred and malice. In fact, that is exactly what they encounter every day when they meet white Britishers.
Topic: immigration

was written by Thomas Bell in 1941, describing the lives/strugglesof three generations of Slovak, but more specifically, Hungarian immigrant workers in the United States steel mills. The novel has four parts, each following one main character from threegenerations of this said Slovak family: Kracha, Mike Dobrejcak, Mary, and Dobie. Bell beginsthe story with the part one, following George Kracha. He has just arrived in America by goingfrom Budapest, then to Bremen, and finally ended in New York.
Topic: immigration

He was going to northeasternPennsylvania where his brother-in-law was working in a railroad section gang. It talks about howhe was given specific instructions to find the New Jersey ferry and purchase a train ticket, andwas scarred with the tales of murders, beatings, and thefts on Slovak immigrants the first daythey arrived in America. Bell then speaks to what Kracha has left behind, which includes: Hiswife, his sister, his widowed mother and what he thought he was leaving behind, endless poverty(Bell 3-4).
Topic: immigration

He takes a job at the Braddock steel mill in Pennsylvania and works there, receivingharsh long labor with minimum and below wages for such works. After a couple years with hisjob in the mill, he opens up a butcher shop where he becomes seemingly comfortable with hisfinances. But shortly, he is overwhelmed with debts in his business that he cannot sell, and sincethe exposure of his affair and committed adultery he loses customers as their sign of disapproval. Next, is Mike Dobrejcak, an immigrant also from Slovakia who travelled to the U.
Topic: immigration

He worked his life in the steel mills where he, as well as the other immigrant workers weretreated with awful conditions unimaginable to endure.Mike was different from other immigrantswho came to the U.S. because he learned to speak english and actually ended up becomingaU.S. citizen. Mike was living at Dorta’s and it is there that he meets Mary, one of Kracha’s daughters, where he later married her and has several kids with her. Due to his higher education,Mike is left with a neverending want for a better life for him and his family, “Nobody can helpus but ourselves, and if anything is to be done we will have to do it ourselves. That’s whatIlearned. God pity me, sometimes I wish I could have gone along without learning it, gone ontalking and making plans but inside me feeling that maybe it wasn’t really true and if it was I wassomehow excepted. Inside me hoping that somehow things would change by themselves or thatother people would do what was necessary and I’d never have to risk the little I have” (Bell 194).
Topic: immigration

Mike and Mary struggled to make the money needed to support them, so they ended up taking inpeople and feeding them as well as giving shelter, but when Mary was pregnant with their fourthchild she became very sick. This forced them to stop taking in these people, making it evenharder to make the money they needed to support four kids and themselves. To make the mattersworse, Mike, their source of all income, was killed in an explosion at the mill, leaving Mary withfour kids and nobody to help her, He let out his breath in a shuddering sigh, wondering whyGod had chosen him to do this dreadful thing to her, Then he put out his hand to touch hershoulder, to wake her and tell her that Mike was dead (Bell 208).
Topic: immigration

Next, is Mary, after theaccident she receives money from the incident happening and decides it’s best to move thefamily. She is struggling to be able to financially support and take the burden left of that byMike, and begins to contemplate taking in boarders and/or reamarrying, despite her other ideas,she chooses not to forego those option and allows for her father to live in their home. He helpsthem out financially but is described as a drunk, and brings new challenges for Mary.
Topic: immigration

In thistime, Johnny begins to work selling plastic bottles and other junk until he is 11 and then joins inselling newspapers, looking to do all he can to support the family. To make these matters worse,Mary falls ill and is bedridden for some weeks, when the doctor is treating her she asks, Doctor, tell me. Have I got consumption? He answered with an obvious reluctance. Yourlungs are touched. Yes (Bell 235). The doctor told her she would be okay, but she neverreturned to her normal self and ended up dying at 37. Johnny was forced to move in with Frankand Alice, where he was taken care of, it was here though that he learned about worker unionsfrom them. He found work and when he received his first paycheck, the birth of politicalcorrectness was birthed inside him, they took 2 dollars from him that he didn’t spend but theylabeled for purchases, But that ain’t right. I worked for the money (Bell 246). Dobie, the nextchapter then follows young Johnny, the third generation Slovak and final focus of the book.
Topic: immigration

Johnny moved to Detroit, leaving Frank and Alice to work at the Chrysler plant in which he thenbegan moving around plants since it had plentiful amounts of jobs due to the said carmanufacturing. He made exceptional amounts of money and spent it like it was growing on trees,wasting it away on material things. But one day, the tree stopped growing, the plant cut him shorton a paycheck where his interest in unions arose again, he organized his first strike and waskicked out of the plant along with the rest of the strikers.
Topic: immigration

He got married to a woman namedJulie, in which shortly after the mills passed principles and were becoming stronger and fightingto keep control of the unions. This was when Johnny took control and joined the A.F.L or theAmerican Federation of Labor, When are you going to do something like this in Braddock? When enough men over there sign up. and that was how, after fifty years, the union cameback to Braddock. As simply as that (Bell 290) The union gained power and it unified the oncediverse agitated men, came together for one common goal which ended up leveraging them on the power of the mills.
Topic: immigration

The industrial working- class life, was not an adequate lifestyle for anyone. Fromunderpaid, to overworking, to death, to inequality, and finally manipulation, it was not anappealing or acceptable idea. First off, they worked full, extra long days while accepting pay cutsbecause they simply needed to have an income to survive and they couldn’t be let go or let themclose the mill. Bell says early on in the book, As time passed it became evident his manager,Captain Jones, did not intend to reopen the mill until the men accepted wage cut and a return tothe twelve-hour day (23). The mill beat the union in the matter, and the eight-hour work dayhas now ceased as well as their previous pay did, after the time that they were kept from workand lost money already.
Topic: immigration

Next, it talked about how Mike had been lucky to come to Americawithout hearing the spiel about the free American where all men were equal, because the millswere not treated that way, as there was much segregation and separation between the differentones that created tension, making it hard for the union to gain leverage without unity. Whichmade it all the more easier for bosses and those in power of the mills, to manipulate the workersto things such as less wages and more hours, reducing the cost of workers but upping profit forthe company (Bell 124). They also took money from the workers as illustrated in Dobie, whenJohnny got his first paycheck and they had taken two dollars, title as purchases, to hisconfusion he had not spent anything, so he asked someone else why they had taken his money,proclaiming, I didn’t buy anything. where he replied.
Topic: immigration

Neither did I, but they took twobucks out of my pay just the same. It’s their graft (Bell 246). Aside from the relationshipbetween the mill and the laborers, people die in the mills. Such as Mike, the husband of Marywho is the daughter of Kracha. He died in an explosion at age 39, leaving his family strugglingwith nothing. This meant for Mary and her oldest son Johnny, doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. This was their reality.
Topic: immigration

I believe the author wrote this novel very intentionally, to inform everyone, the generalpublic. But more specifically maybe the government of how they were being treated in the millsand what was happening. The purpose though, like I said, was to inform the audience, of howawful they were being treated, and what their life was like, the struggle they went through andthe reality behind the mask of the American Dream. They endured hardships and loss, illnessesand death, pay cuts and extended hours. The people needed to be informed, as well did newimmigrants who were coming to work and live this, American Dream. He did what wasnecessary, you can’t let something like this slip by the eyes of the sheltered. Something had tochange and this novel captivated everyone and ultimately gave reason for change. My reaction was that of a similarity of my reaction to the autobiography of FrederickDouglass, pure disgust. What this Slovak family went through, was not much better than slavery.
Topic: immigration

Sure they were paid, but they weren’t paid like they deserved or enough to even survivecomfortably at all. A constant struggle to keep their heads above water while holding their entirefamily above them. I couldn’t imagine a world where this reality used to be true. How someonecan manipulate and treat fellow human beings, immigrants or not, like garbage so they can saveand then make more money. I’m glad such a thing was brought to the attention of the world, and I’m even more glad that we read it, it was a well written novel and it captivated me in the storiesand endeavours of the 4 main characters. I felt the pain they felt, I could never imagine goingthrough so much sickness and death as they went through. Imagine, working overtime in a millfor little to no pay, forcing your kids and wife to take in boarders and sell garbage for fractions ofmoney, just to be cut short by the boss or to die in an explosion; or to get sick and die that way, it’s devastating to think about.
Topic: immigration

My family consists of eight people with two females and four males; we all belong to black and belong to the Habesha ethnicity: Tiemit Segid (mother), 52, female. Sereke Teklezghi (father), 60, male. Elsa Sereke, 31, female. Awet Sereke, 27. Samuel Sereke, 23, male. And lastly, Yonas Sereke, 19, male.
Topic: immigration

Everything in the world has value and that’s why they exist. Otherwise, why would we need something that has no value? However, human beings don’t value just anything: we all have something to value and something not to value at all which reflects who we are. Personally, the most important value to me is dignity and worth of the individual because I think if someone has no dignity or their dignity was abused by others, they may not able to function in society and they will lose their confidence and self-esteem.
Topic: immigration

When it comes to immigration, Philadelphia always was a perfect place to live for documented and undocumented immigrants, no matter where they come from. But after President Trump took over office, everything started to change. According to Billy Penn (year), ICE, United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement, based on Philadelphia being known as “the most aggressive in the nation,” arrested 64 percent of undocumented immigrants without criminal records in 2017, higher “than any of their 23 regional parts.” It caused Philadelphia residents to protest against ICE “at both City Hall and the ICE office at Eighth and Cherry streets,” which resulted in victory of the protesters when Mayor Kennedy declared he won’t renew PARS contract that allow the ICE to “access city’s arrest database” (Means and Jennifer, 2018).