Why Do People Move?

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To answer the question “why do people migrate” it would take us a lot of time just because people migrate for many different reasons. If we have a closer look to the second questions which is “why don't people migrate more”, it’s also a questions that has many different answers. The first couple of answers that I have for both of these questions, come from how people from my country (Albania) think. Considering Albania a country with a lot of corruption in the government and with a poor economy, that would be one of the main reasons people migrate and leave. That would be the response that I would describe on why me and my family moved to the US. The only people who wouldn't want to move out of the country, is the 1%, who are very happy with the life they have because they are stable and have no worries. Everyone else would leave the country if they could, but not everyone can for many reasons.
Me and my family started the process of migrating to the United States in 2002 and we got our chance to come here in 2015. It was a long process but it was worth it. Both my parents finished college in Albania but my dad was the only one who was able to get a job related to his degree. My mother tried but she
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Discuss the two perspectives described in the lyrics, in light of concrete migrant experiences in the United States. Life can be bright in America. If you can fight in America. Life is all right in America. If you’re all white in America.
Race and color are very much a big debate in the United States. White privilege is very real when it shouldn’t be because we all should be treated the same. These topics cause a lot of debate in the US, more than they do in other countries where different races live. I see race as another unnecessary label that I really hope we all learn to ignore in the

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