The United States is one of the most promptly developed countries in the world: the superior level of life it offers its citizen drives people searching for a better living and future. In fact, it witnesses a massive number of immigrants from all around the world every year. Lebanon being a country always in external and internal conflict, it is unable to grant its citizens the level of life they have always wished for, pushing them far away from their homeland to other advanced nations such as the United States and Australia, seeking superior living conditions: “These parents fled to Australia because they chose peace, not war, because they did not want to raise their children in a climate of fear and oppression.”, explains Joseph Wakim in
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Nunez adds that “In some cases, people migrate with the knowledge or hope that more opportunities will be available to them in their particular field than at home. Others migrate after employment has already been offered to them.” Additionally, having a shortage in jobs for the future graduating generations implies a high unemployment rate which, combined with the ruthless economic situation of the country, drives employers to underpay their employees. With salaries as low as a thousand dollars per month, graduates wouldn’t be able to save money for buying a house and a car or paying for his marriage and having to financially support his family’s needs and kids’ education; the expenses needed to sustain a household in Lebanon can be a hassle with only a thousand dollars per month. Thus, the Lebanese youth is aimed toward searching for job opportunities abroad with higher salaries and better working and living environments. Older adults would still be motivated to do the shift to the United States for their children and their future generations to have supplementary chances of success regarding their education and …show more content…
Despite Lebanon being one of the smallest countries in the word, its richness in resources and beauty makes of it a target for conflicts and wars. James G. Thomas brings up in his article the story of a Lebanese guy, Haseeb Abraham, who fled away to Mississippi from the famine, poverty and genocide that reigned in Lebanon as a result of World War I. Thomas also mentions that masses of Lebanese Christians immigrated because of the war to the United States, having the goal to return to their homeland once the war cedes and conditions improve, ending up realizing that “the life of an emigrant in the United States was preferable to that on what was commonly known as ‘the Mountain’ ”(36). Moreover, the political system’s lack in democratic voting laws, powers and law reinforcement methods gives politicians corruption opportunities against the Lebanese Constitution, such as re-electing themselves for another year, bribing people to vote for them in the elections, stealing the population’s tax money, not accomplishing their duties as politicians, depriving citizen from their rights to favor theirs; this led to actually not having a president for almost two years and a half. The political system is also known to affect the economic system: shabby politics often drive defective economy, leading to having bad no or a few jobs
Nunez adds that “In some cases, people migrate with the knowledge or hope that more opportunities will be available to them in their particular field than at home. Others migrate after employment has already been offered to them.” Additionally, having a shortage in jobs for the future graduating generations implies a high unemployment rate which, combined with the ruthless economic situation of the country, drives employers to underpay their employees. With salaries as low as a thousand dollars per month, graduates wouldn’t be able to save money for buying a house and a car or paying for his marriage and having to financially support his family’s needs and kids’ education; the expenses needed to sustain a household in Lebanon can be a hassle with only a thousand dollars per month. Thus, the Lebanese youth is aimed toward searching for job opportunities abroad with higher salaries and better working and living environments. Older adults would still be motivated to do the shift to the United States for their children and their future generations to have supplementary chances of success regarding their education and …show more content…
Despite Lebanon being one of the smallest countries in the word, its richness in resources and beauty makes of it a target for conflicts and wars. James G. Thomas brings up in his article the story of a Lebanese guy, Haseeb Abraham, who fled away to Mississippi from the famine, poverty and genocide that reigned in Lebanon as a result of World War I. Thomas also mentions that masses of Lebanese Christians immigrated because of the war to the United States, having the goal to return to their homeland once the war cedes and conditions improve, ending up realizing that “the life of an emigrant in the United States was preferable to that on what was commonly known as ‘the Mountain’ ”(36). Moreover, the political system’s lack in democratic voting laws, powers and law reinforcement methods gives politicians corruption opportunities against the Lebanese Constitution, such as re-electing themselves for another year, bribing people to vote for them in the elections, stealing the population’s tax money, not accomplishing their duties as politicians, depriving citizen from their rights to favor theirs; this led to actually not having a president for almost two years and a half. The political system is also known to affect the economic system: shabby politics often drive defective economy, leading to having bad no or a few jobs