“It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” (Edward, 2002). To identify where is their home is a major problem for Islamic migrants, in particular for the second and third generation migrants. Unlike immigrants, migrants always are temporary works; they do not have passport and protection from the government that they are working. Most of them live in the country as an outsider.…
All they can see is the short term goals in front of them, their basic needs to survive. Thus, the cycle keeps continuing and other options become further out of reach. They have to work to help bring in money. Therefore their education suffers, they do not have a steady home or address. They do not make relationships outside of the family and other migrants.…
Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia provides a wide overview of the consequences of settler colonialism and capitalist neoglobalization. Most of her framework focuses on how to abolish border imperialism and give migrants justice against antioppressive Western regimes. As stated in her introduction her book tries to provide solutions to the various forms of violence such as, deportations, illegal suspicion and control over migrant workers. By doing this she also shows different testimonies of those affected by exclusion and border zones. She says that, “western regimes that create mass displacement, and are most severely deployed against those whose very recourse to migration results from the ravages of capital and military occupations” (6) .…
The Perpetual Border Battle talks about some immigration statistics and the dispute between policy makers and opinion leaders in the U.S. regarding illegal immigration and the southern U.S. border. On the other hand, “Imagining the Immigrant: Why legality Must Give Way to Humanity”, talks about understanding the immigrant’s point of view and the some of the reason why they cross the borders.…
Immigration can have several meanings to different people. For one immigrant, it was a representation of a new life. Natasha Johnson immigrated to the small town of Andover, Iowa from Kiev, Ukraine. Natasha traveled to Iowa with her daughter 12 years ago (Johnson, 2015). Since the day she first stepped foot in the United States, she has continually been adjusting, learning, and overcoming challenges.…
The debate over the rights of immigrants or refugees remains unresolved and countries seem to be increasingly hostile towards these groups of individuals. Though the issue of immigration is often debated with emphasis purely on the economic effects of immigration, I believe that often the social side of immigration is forgotten. When we debate legislation, we speak about the jobs that immigrants might take, but we never speak about the way in which an immigrant’s family unit is affected by the harsh laws against immigration. This issue is of particular importance to me because I have seen, as well as read about, the effects of the harsh immigration laws on families and I hope that in the future no family will have to go through the hardships unnecessarily created by unfair immigration laws. When I was a child, my family hired a part time nanny to help take care of my…
The methodology used in this dissertation is based on the analysis of various literatures focused on immigration policy and social work with migrants. A recurring theme in all the literature studied is the fear of migration on public amenities and anxieties over migrants’ entitlement to welfare benefits. Analysis of literatures written by various writers globally by William and Graham in 2014 indicates that the issue of migration poses a challenge to the very nature and identity of social work, its ethical claims, its position to state policy and its strategies for interventions. A qualitative study carried out by Furman et al (2007) in the US to explore the practical dilemma that immigration policy presents to social work students indicates that immigration policies has substantial implications for social work practice because it affects social services provisions by determining migrants’ eligibility for social services.…
In the past few years migration has changed drastically. People from all over the world are looking for a better way of life. People migrate because of the weather, the economy, a different life style, and other reasons. Economics and oppression make people move to other countries or locations looking for better living standards. There are two main factors that influence migration.…
Migration is a process in which individuals move from one country to another for school, for business, in search of work or some other livelihood; these movements can be for a short or long term. However some of them successfully able to adapt new culture and others keep following their beliefs withheld from their original place of birth, and find difficult to change what they believe. I migrated to Canada for better education and for a high living standard, but when I first landed to Canada I was literally unconscious because of cultural shock; everything was unfamiliar; from weather, landscape and language to food, fashion,…
The prescribed text “Go Back To Where You Came From” by Ivan O’Mahoney follows a documented journey of six participants with conflicting views on refugees and asylum seekers. The related text “Neighbours” by Tim Winton, explores a short story on the process of discovery of a young couple’s experiences as they move into a new multicultural neighbourhood. Through human experiences and sudden and unexpected discoveries, individuals are challenged and new perceptions and understandings arise. Unexpected discoveries, challenge the views of the participants in the documentary series,where assumptions and beliefs are denounced by human aspects of the world .Raye is a very predominant participant throughout the entire documentary as it is believed…
In 2004 the European Union first established a European Agency for the management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union ‘Frontex’ . Frontex was created by the Council regulation (EC) 2007/2004 and was adopted on 26 October 2004 and started its operation on 1 May 2005. It is recognised as the European Union border control agency. Frontex was established to facilitate measures relating to the management of EU member States external borders, land, sea, airports and seaports borders to which the provisions of Community law on the crossing of external borders by person apply. Frontex Regulation was however amended in 2007 by Regulation (EC)…
The people of colonized areas, Asia and Africa, were open to an opportunity, to travel away to the imperial center, Europe, during colonial period. Even after the uproot of the colonial period, people still migrated because of economic, political, cultural, or personal reasons. They started settling there. The movement of people to an alien land and then settling there is known as Diaspora. The settlers face great burden in accommodating themselves with the society of the new land, because the old country, along with it’s religion, language, and culture occupies a substantial part of their thoughts.…
The securitization of migration is a field of intense controversy both in terms of academic debate and also in terms of the policy making. The reason lies in the great political and ethical dilemmas that arise from the promotion of migration as a contemporary security threat. At the European Union level, migration has become increasingly securitized since the 1980s, and was seen first and foremost as a threat to national identity. In contrast, the securitization of migration in the United States took place in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, where terrorism became the bases for framing the groundwork for securitizing discourses and practices relative to migration.…
Stuart Hall in “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” says that Identity is not as clear or transparent as it appears to be, rather it is problematic (222). In postcolonial context identities can be seen as ever changing phenomenon and they are constantly shifting (10). According to him identities are not transparent and create problems for post-colonial subjects. Instead of thinking about identity as an accomplished fact, one must see identity as a product, which is never accomplished or which is never complete. In fact identity can be seen as a product, which is always in process (Hall, 222).…
Migration has been around since the dawn of the history. People have never stayed in one place nor continued to live permanently in such place. However, they energetically search and look up for different places, where they could commence a new life or have a bright future. Today, I have chosen this topic because of numerous stories that we hear from the news, which usually informs us about huge numbers of people who cross the Mediterranean Sea on daily bases; some of whom are able to make it, and others fail to make it. Despite the aforementioned fact, the land of freedom has been a welcoming nation for millions of immigrants since the old days of the founding fathers.…