300 million people (worldometer). The US accepts people into the country based on their citizenship. People who don’t have to prove that they know about their heritage, they are simply born into American citizenship. Then there is the other population of people who deserve the same acceptance as the rest: the group of 42.1 million legal immigrants trying to fit in with the average American (Center For Immigration Studies). This group of people works hard and are ridiculed for being immigrants.…
In the Australian Model, author Tim Southommasane touches upon the idea of multiculturism in Australia. The reading starts out with Southommasane describing fond memories of his home town, Carbramatta, a suburb of Sydney which at one point served as the nation’s drug capitol. Southommasane relates a sense of pride of having grown up in a town that represents such a cultural melting pot. The Cabramatta freedom gate currently bears a number of incriptions, all in English, Chinese,…
political system still insist on deporting anyone whom doesn’t have citizenship of the U.S.. There are many reasons as to why minorities should be able to stay in America, but there are also explanation why congress wants to limited or at one point exclude…
Introduction Immigration policies all over the world are affected by the country's laws and how their government deals with immigrants. They are also affected by how the country views the specific race. Immigration is people moving to another country in which they aren’t natives sometimes in hope to have a better standard living or many other reasons. Therefore immigration policies have to be enforced due to unlawful immigration, to increase border security, and to prevent visa violators…
Introduction Canada is well-known for adopting an official Multiculturalism policy based on individual and multicultural rights. This policy was implemented in 1971 and its goal was to affirm “the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic origins, their language, or their religious affiliation” (Citizenship and Immigration Canada). Augie Fleras posits that multiculturalism stabilizes “the tension between difference and equality on the one side and unity and…
Legislation and regulation regarding immigration into Canada have been major issue and a growing topic of discussion in recent years. Canada has a population of 33 million and has needed a large influx of immigrants to help support the workforce. With more skilled immigrants arriving to Canada, more would be able to contribute to the economy of Canada. In 2002, the number of immigrants was 229,000. In 2015, Canada has welcomed over 285,000 new citizens to live in Canada. Just last year in 2015…
Do state control immigration outcomes? To understand the complex process of immigration a basic knowledge of the concept is needed. The process of immigration is regarded as the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. It is very…
Immigration: The foundation of the United States Immigration has been around since the very beginning, and is a subject that will always be up for debate until the end of time. Whether it be the controversy nowadays with accepting refugees in large numbers, or the threat people felt in the late 19th and early 20th century concerning immigration, it will always be a topic worth of discussion. Beginning in the 1870’s, “America Fever” opened the gates to the urbanization of America, as well as the…
There are a lot of cars, houses, crowds, pollution, and only fewer quiet places are left as a result of excessive Immigration (Island, A. 2010). Another author argues that illegal migration occurred not only because of their living condition, but it’s also because of the demand for illegal migrant by some people like the house owner needing housekeeper and maintenance…
How does the interaction of stakeholders explain the passage of S. 744 and its aftermath? The interactions between these stakeholders played a large role in the passage of S.744, as well as the inability of comprehensive immigration reform, or any of the various piecemeal iterations brought up in the House of Representatives to become law. The House did not take up S.744 nor was a similarly comprehensive approach introduced, furthermore the tech industries who would have benefitted from one of…