Discrimination against Immigrants in the USA
During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s many people immigrated to the United States from Europe and Asia hoping that they would find prosperity and a better life from the one they were leading back at their homeland. One of the reasons was the industrialization of Europe. In fact the transformation from small, agriculture based societies to manufacturing economies was amazingly fast, that people who didn’t get used to this new way of living decided to migrate to America. But when they arrived there they didn’t find what they expected.
Nearly 12 million people migrated to America between 1892 and 1924. They came to accomplish their “American dream”, but their journey wasn’t as promising as their …show more content…
Even though they had the same qualifications to do a certain job, native born Americans were always put before them. This happened because people were scared that immigrants would have stolen their jobs and therefore America started to limiting the number of immigrants coming to the country. In fact, employers would prefer a native born American to an alien even if they both had the same qualifications. Often immigrants were discriminated inside and outside their workplace which caused a gradual margination that ended up in ghettos. Ghettos are spots of a city in which a minority group usually live because of social, economic or legal pressures. This is a problem that nowadays society still suffers.
Although the number of immigrants has decreased continuously since the 1930’s discrimination still exist. Even though racism is not as a large as it used to be, there are cases where our society divides itself by racial differences. The recent police brutalities and killings have suggested that racism has not been defeated yet. All the sensitivity that comes from racism and these events makes us reflect about whether it is an equal right or a special
During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s many people immigrated to the United States from Europe and Asia hoping that they would find prosperity and a better life from the one they were leading back at their homeland. One of the reasons was the industrialization of Europe. In fact the transformation from small, agriculture based societies to manufacturing economies was amazingly fast, that people who didn’t get used to this new way of living decided to migrate to America. But when they arrived there they didn’t find what they expected.
Nearly 12 million people migrated to America between 1892 and 1924. They came to accomplish their “American dream”, but their journey wasn’t as promising as their …show more content…
Even though they had the same qualifications to do a certain job, native born Americans were always put before them. This happened because people were scared that immigrants would have stolen their jobs and therefore America started to limiting the number of immigrants coming to the country. In fact, employers would prefer a native born American to an alien even if they both had the same qualifications. Often immigrants were discriminated inside and outside their workplace which caused a gradual margination that ended up in ghettos. Ghettos are spots of a city in which a minority group usually live because of social, economic or legal pressures. This is a problem that nowadays society still suffers.
Although the number of immigrants has decreased continuously since the 1930’s discrimination still exist. Even though racism is not as a large as it used to be, there are cases where our society divides itself by racial differences. The recent police brutalities and killings have suggested that racism has not been defeated yet. All the sensitivity that comes from racism and these events makes us reflect about whether it is an equal right or a special