Essays on Enclaves

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Gender is a very powerful category and one that many different people have used in order to explain culture and society. The role of women in society had for the longest time been constricted to the private sphere, the home, taking care of the children and being the primary Linchpin that could take care of the family and be the emotional and often moral center of the family. Women in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have gained more rights and have fought for equality with men. When Korean families immigrated to the United States in the ...

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The Fighting in Syria and Iraq has been pronounced since 2013 with concurrent warfare at the hands of jihadists in sectarian enclaves fighting to protect their areas, but failing like the Iraqi, and Syrian government to reclaim national territories from ISIL rule. Jenkins (2015) mentioned that there is a connection between the civil war in Syria, the perpetual conflict in Iraq, the breakdown of Al Qaeda, and possible connection to the Islamic State, and threats of terrorism that have been posed by jihadist foreign fighters who have joined jihadist groups that have become active participants ...

Problems Statements

The most significant challenges facing the construction project are; Managing work levels. The firms are finding it hard to pick the sudden flow of orders from the clients. Overall labor supply is sometimes a problem because of busier climates Severe economic condition. The company is experiencing a slowdown in residential building as a result of customer’s unwillingness to spend in real estate amid the rising concerns of job insecurity Cost controls. Maintaining an efficient level of cost control is a challenge to the company. The high cost of labor and the increased pressure in purchasing raw materials has ...

In the late nineteenth century, America went through a time of progress that was later dubbed the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age is known as a time of economic prosperity, industrial advancement, and population growth. However, the era included many dark times that are masked under the guise of progress and prosperity. The economy took a downward spiral, discrimination was rampant, and corrupt politicians worked with wealthy businessmen to concentrate the country’s wealth in a small population of people. Despite the tough circumstances that were caused by a boom in population growth, immigrants remained a large portion of ...

Canada is a multicultural area, which has the different sense background, of religious, racial, and cultural festivity. This is notable through the Canadian government adoption of the Multiculturalism policy, in the 1970-80s. This placed the Canadian government, as being the multiculturalism ideology instigator, due to its public prominence on the articulating the social significance of immigration. Therefore, placing the Royal Commission in Canada, dealing with Biculturalism and Bilingualism, often to be referred in multiculturalism as being; the modern political wakefulness derivation. "Multiculturalism" as a term, has been used by Canadians both descriptively, what is seen as a fact sociologically and prescriptively ...

An American immigrant leaves his or her mother country in search of business opportunities as well as expectations of a superior lifestyle associated with America. These particular expectations are often hinged on the fact they could achieve better lifestyles via better work and schooling opportunities in the United States. Nevertheless, this isn't always the situation. These particular immigrants experience a lot of issues from their new surroundings such as language climate and lifestyle which, to a large extend, influence their successes or failures in the United States. They influence their economic as well as social standing within their new environment and, therefore, ...

Hernstein & Murray’s The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, offers a controversial statistical argument about social stratification and race being concretely linked to intelligence. However, the book more effectively investigates the consequences of American social stratification. The rich and educated members of society are increasingly isolating themselves in zip code enclaves instead of contributing to the American ideal of diversity. As a result, society has become increasingly divided by education, class and race. Overall, the book attempts to deconstruct complex socioeconomic issues of race, class and intelligence using statistical analysis. Intelligence is an important part of social ...

Question 1

The targeting of the Japanese Americans began immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack which occurred on December 1941 (Conrat & Conrat 45). The main reason they were targeted was because of the suspicion that they some were sympathizers of the Japanese government and army that had just bombed the Pearl Harbor. The Japanese people had, in fact, been treated with suspicion for a long time, and the Pearl Harbor attacks only helped to aggravate the suspicion and this time unfortunately, they were subjected to unimaginable oppression. Since they first immigrated into the United States, the Japanese had managed to create fairly ...

Immigration from Asia, Africa and Latin America to Europe

The purpose of this paper is a complex study of migration processes from Asia, Latin America and Africa to European countries. Special attention will be paid to analyses of economical and other activities of immigrants, influence of their remittances on condition of payments balance of donor and recipient countries, questions of labor regulation and limitation of illegal migration due to criminal elements and shady economy. There are several research problems that we will tackle within this paper. We are interested in main reasons of migration from Africa, Asia and Latin America to European Union, estimation of its volume and dynamism. ...

The World War II brought about significant developments and changes in the ideologies upheld by the United States government through race equality, economic shifts, population movements as well as the roles of the minorities. These changes were experienced through the vast range of efforts from the volunteers who submitted to the government strategies and policies in the economy. The labor market also experienced radical changes in accordance to labor and race diverted due to pressure emanating from other communities in the call for national unity. These changes brought about significant changes in the ideologies of race equality especially in ...

Ne Neoliberalism refers to politically motivated ideologies that allowed shifting of economic factors from the public sector to the private sector. According to these ideologies, a government encourages private investors through a series of policies and changes in the market structure. For instance, governments initiated tax reforms in broadening of the tax base, reduced deficit spending, imposed limitation on subsidies, withdrawal of fixed exchange regime, and encouraged privatization. Neoliberalism in the Middle East and Egypt had a significant impact on the socioeconomic and political perspective. Neoliberalism in Egypt ensured free market and private enterprises regardless of socially harmful inflicted on the society ( ...

The Chapter 10 “White Ethnic Groups. Assimilation and Identity – the Twilight of Ethnicity?” of the “Diversity and Society” by Joseph Healey primarily focuses on the analysis of the white ethnic minorities immigration and the process of their assimilation into the host society during the three major immigration waves between the 1820s and 1920s and then proceeds with comparison of such processes to what racial minority groups have to face nowadays to become more included into the society of the dominant group of whites. The author shows how the mass immigration of the Europeans influenced the development of America from ...

Agriculture has always been an important part of Indian Economic Development. With, almost half of the Indian Population dependent on Agriculture for their livelihood, this primary sector employment arena contributed 50% to India’s National Income. However, since the time of Independence, the contribution of agriculture and its allied activities to the National Income has reduced to 18%. Indian Sub Continent has seen a drastic shift, both in Agricultural Technology and Policies related to it since independence. Since, development of other industries and sectors is dependent on agricultural development; it continues to be dominant sector in Indian Economy. Prior ...

As the world becomes increasingly globalized, indigenous languages become more and more at risk of becoming extinct. Given the increasing industrialization and wider communication of superpowers such as the United States and China, the increasing presence of both Western and Eastern major languages and cultures has meant the overshadowing of many local and indigenous languages. This makes them fall into the realm of 'endangered languages,' languages and ways of speaking that threaten to become obsolete in the face of a modern communicative age. This phenomenon is known as 'language shift,' and indicates the moving of some languages into ...