Nationality

Escaping Injustice You are on a deserted island with no escape, you feel like no one is on your side, you want change to happen, but so far all your effort to make it happen has drained out of you, so do you run or do you face the problem? Our nation has had so many immigration problems lately that these problems are getting out of control like as if it were cancer spreading throughout your body. The issue of immigration had been postponed for many decades now until the DREAM Act was passed in…

instance applying for college scholarships. When applying you have to put your parents and their yearly income but how can you if your parent isn't a legal US citizen. Once again the questions stands should Anchor babies parents be able to stay in this country and call it home even if they are not legal citizens. Most immigrants that come here work more than 40 hours a week to get by and take care of their families. There are many success stories with illegal immigrants coming here and becoming…

Second page you see Pull Factors There are so many great reasons to live in the United States of America. One of the pull factors for America is family, people are attracted to countries in which they have family members who live there. Another pull factor is seeking better education. Many parents want their children to attend good schools resulting in them moving to different countries with better learning; there are thousands of universities in the U.S. to choose from. Another great pull…

The legacy of immigration and naturalization administration spans more than 100 years (Our history, 2011). Laws passed in the 1880’s implemented three elements to our immigration policies: “(a) restrictions based on personal characteristics, (b) restrictions based on national origin, (c) protection of American labor” (Laque, 2010, p. 5). When the federal government took over immigration in 1891 the Office of Superintendent of Immigration was part of the Treasury Department (Our history, 2011).…

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door” (Lazarus, 1883). This poem, which is engraved upon the Statue of Liberty, has been used to represent America’s dedication to provide open doors to immigrants, but it does not tell the whole-truth of the matter. To determine the validity Emma Lazarus’ Magnum Opus, one must look at the history…

Policies associated with immigration laws stem back in history, as early as 1790. Beginning with the Naturalization Act of 1790, as the first statute that imposed regulations on citizenship. The Act included criteria, such as two years of residency, good behavior and allegiance to the United States. Notwithstanding, those excluded from citizenship included blacks and children of fathers not born in the U.S. Inevitably, this representation of segregation took part in the restructuring of…

A second Act that is worth mentioning is the Chinese Exclusion Act, this was the first time that United States passed a law that would not allow entry to a specific ethnic group in this case from China, Japan or any other Oriental countries. The act was targeting mainly Chinese workers, those who were unskilled and even those who were skilled but, they did make small exceptions with teachers, students, or officials. Middle class Chinese workers first became interested in the United States during…

I don’t understand how ethnicity is so often misconstrued with race.. and even nationality. It is actually pretty harmful. Ethnicity refers to people who share a common ancestry, history, culture and language. Romani is an ethnicity. Sorbian is an ethnicity. Bavarian is an ethnicity. Jewish is an ethnicity (albeit also ethno-religious), African American is an ethnicity. Race refers to the categorization of people based on common appearance and skin color. It is a social construct and has no…

denial of the human right to nationality impacts people daily life. She mainly focuses on how the denial of a nationality impacts people of Haitian descent in the Caribbean. She looks specifically at the exclusion of people of Haitian descent from citizenship in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic; two democratic countries seen as the most civil liberty and political right in the Caribbean. Belton explains her main idea by looking at contemporary thought of nationality by focusing on Hannah…

life is always given less focus. Abrahamian, a journalist at Al Jazeera America, questions such satisfaction in a robust and perceptive depiction of the world of the stateless. She compares those who have many passports by economic opportunity, as nationality becomes a luxury commodity and a verge…