“Despite the influx of peoples which would occur from the Empire and commonwealth, the government displayed an initial reluctance to allow migration from these destinations because of the desire, as Kathleen Paul (1997) and Ian spencer (1997) have demonstrated, to keep Britain white.” (Panayi 248) The home country is not disposed towards immigration. In Panayi’s Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Racism, she analyzes how immigrants are discouraged from migrating to Great Britain, during the post-World War Two era. One example, shown above, is when Panayi examines the population of Great Britain’s stance towards allowing refugees and immigrants into the country.…
Handlin and Bodnar highlight different facets of American immigration history from the point of departure to trans-Atlantic crossing, to arrival and the development of ethnic communities in the United States. Authors Lee, Miller, Peiss, Ribak, and Alamillo expand and reconsider the basic story presented by Handlin and Bodnar. In “Uprootedness,” Handlin presents to us that the crossing from Europe to America was “harsh and brutal.” These immigrants were torn from their communities becoming alienated in a new place.…
Without farther study, or evidence, readers should not be made to believe that most people associate the word “assimilation” with the year 1950, whose ideals are sixty-six years old. Jacoby (2004) makes her opinion on assimilation clear when she states, “As for the melting pot, if anything, that seems even more threatening: who wants to be melted down, after all- for the sake of national unity or anything else?” (p. 423). This quotation creates the feeling that individualism is far more important than the unity of the country to the author. Although individualism is an extremely important concept, it is crucial to have national unity in a country as large as the Unites States.…
The United States is considered to be the most diverse country in the world. It consists different cultures and languages that come together as one nation. Many words can describe the United States but choose to use alienated, united as one, and desire for equality. Martin Luther King, Rodolfo Gonzalez, and Diane Mei Lin Mark show the qualities that describe the United States. Mark writes a poem explaining about Asian American women working and how they’ve been pushed away by society.…
The unjustifiable sufferings of migrant farm workers in the United States These days, even though we are fighting strongly for human rights issues such as human trafficking, racial equality, asylum seekers and refugees, child abuse and LGBTQ rights, we have to admit that not everyone is equal. We worked hard to ensure that the people around us have the rights they deserved, but we are ignorant to the suffering of others. In his book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth Holmes explores the lives of the Mexican workers who cross the border illegally to come to the U.S and provides an interesting idea on how “the fault lines of class, race, citizenship, gender, and sexuality” have shaped the experience of…
Immigration between 1900-1914 is a crucial point in Canada’s growth in population today. It all had pros and cons to this topic because, of the reasoning’s for immigration. This research report will give an idea of how immigration was conveyed and how various individuals with different ethnic groups were or were not approved to live in Canada’s regions. The 1900’s immigration consisted of many plans from Canada’s prime minister of the time, Wilfred Laurier and his assistant Clifford Sifton. Mr. Sifton was hired to have the main responsibility of making the rules and the policies towards Canadian immigration.…
In addition, immigrants are losing the sense of who they truly are in these country by the overwhelming cultural shock that they are going thru. However, the United States blame them for being immigrants and do not adapt to their rules and forms. In like manner, Aviva Chomsky reveals the myth that “The United States is a melting pot that has always welcomed immigrants from all over the world” (Chomsky 77). According to Chomsky the U.S. treats immigrants badly. For example, “People of African origin were nonpersons for the federal government, also they criminalized those who treated blacks as human beings rather than as property” (Chomsky 79).…
The Difficulties of America: The Problems of Discrimination Immigrants face many difficulties living in America today, especially when they belong to a minority and are new to the many cultures that surround American society. Two authors that address these issues are Langston Hughes and Pat Mora. Within his poem “ Let America be America Again”, Hughes discusses the the flawed system in which America no longer lives up to its original ideals of equality and freedom. Whereas Mora , in her poem “Legal Alien” chooses to focus on the personal feelings and struggles people of mixed race and culture experience living in America. Today U.S. citizens are having to learn how to overcome racial, religious, and gender discrimination, and more and more people are starting to feel that this is because America is no longer living up…
Some people immigrant to the America to have a better lifestyle than they had from there country. Many people immigrate from their country to America to have a better lifestyle and more opportunities for their families and themselves. My grandfather traveled to America from the Phillipines when he was twenty years old. My grandfather wanted to have better opportunities such as having a better job and making more money. When my grandfather traveled to America he didn’t know what to expect,but all he knew was that there were more opportunities than living in the Philippines.…
The United States is built on different cultures and it all started with the pilgrims coming over for religious freedom. The idea caught on and people from all over the world came for many reasons whether it be religious freedom, running from the law or just to start fresh everyone is from a different culture. In the movie Crash, a handful of people from Los Angeles are struggling with racism, cultural differences and power issues in a time right after 9/11. A few things to know for this paper, enculturation is when a culture is transmitted from one generation to another, acculturation is when a person’s culture is modified through contact with or exposure to another culture, and racism means being biased against another person’s ethenicity.…
Jan Blommaert’s article Citizenship, Language, and Superdiversity: Towards Complexity focus on our understanding of citizenship, and how superdiversity has challenged this view. Altering concepts of community, language, and citizenship by analysing the integration process, and realising that the idea of citizenship has many centres of power and importance. Blommaert has challenged the complexity of dis-citizenship, investigating the many interconnected parts, including the problems faced by imagination, communicative competence, and the use of registers in society. One main point that Blommaert addresses of community, language, and citizenship, is the dramatic social changes that have occurred over time, concerning these notions. Vertovec…
Compare and Contrast Essay In the short stories, “A Quilt of a Country” and “Immigrant Contribution”, there are many similarities and differences. They both talk about how immigration has affected religion, the dinner table, community and individualism, and how the nation has been held together. All of those things are affected by immigration both legal and illegal. Both of these short stories are about how America has been affected by immigration, and the similarities and differences of the stories.…
In “Border Crossings,” Renato Rosaldo states that all peoples have culture and that “each human culture is so unique that no yardstick can measure one against another.” (Rosaldo 196) But in society, the most powerful group usually have the privilege of classifying themselves as a-cultural or post-cultural. They are blind to their own culture and therefore see themselves as the “norm.” Rosaldo argues that by labeling one group as the “norm” and another group as more cultural it perpetuates the idea that “if “they” have explicit monopoly on authentic culture, "we" have an unspoken one on institutional power .”…
“Basically they are in the middle between two different worlds and that’s the dilemma. That’s the struggle.” (Martha H. Bigelow; Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land pg. 94). First generation immigrants are torn between multiple cultures, with their parents' views different from the views of the country they are raised in. Through this, first generation immigrants struggle with finding themselves in life and don’t feel as if they belong to either of the two worlds.…
Firstly, there are many advantages of immigration for countries like skilled workers, reduce labor cost, culture values and distribution of population. Countries are accepting immigrants who are well educated and skilled because they wants their country progress and wants to make country strong help with skilled and motivated immigrants. According to Dogra (2011), the major advantages are that the countries get well qualified and skilled workers, who help to expand business and in some countries some technical vacancies are filled by these immigrants. Furthermore, economic growth is biggest advantage for countries. All immigrants are paying high amount for settling over there and they pay too much tax for social services compare than host countries…