Essays on The Immigrant

BOOK BY GABRIELA F. ARREDONDO. MEXICAN CHICAGO: RACE, IDENTITY, AND NATION, 1916-39

The phenomenon of the Mexican society in Chicago has been an object of interest for many years. This issue has been examined in details and in general in order to draw the conclusion if the importance and influence of the Mexicans on the social and cultural life. However, the scholars have not published their findings for the audience’s access. Therefore, the book ‘Mexican Chicago’ written by Gabriela F. Arredondo is the first attempt to demonstrate the Mexicans experience within the American society and their cooperation. The ...

The world today is seeing more immigration than ever before, both legal and illegal. While countries forging solid links with one another in the vein of the European Union (hereafter referred to as EU for brevity) has encouraged legal immigration of all kinds, while war and deprivation in various other parts of the world has led to a burgeoning refugee crisis, with more people entering Western countries than can be adequately or carefully handled at any one time. These forms of immigration can be seen as quite different to each other at face value; however, when looked at in ...

1. The book begins with a historical portrait of Ruth McBride Jordan. The author reveals that Ruth has had some name changes. Explain each name change and its significance. The change of Ruth’s name indicates the changes that she has undergone since her birth. She was born in Poland as Rachel Dwanra Zylska and as the name indicates she was born into an orthodox Jewish family. The first name change happens in her second year when her family immigrates to America. It is here that she gets her second name Rachel Deborah Zylska, which was ‘an American version ...

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

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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EDFS 309: Journal review writing

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Immigration has generated interest both in political and in research worlds. The topics have been shrouded with ambiguities considering the dynamics of security and economic constraints. America not like any other nation has culturally diverse populations that coexist harmoniously curtsey of multiculturalism initiatives by the government. The integration of immigrants into the society has slowly evolved to be a complex exercise that requires security scans and consideration of socio-economical impacts of such settlement in the country. This paper identifies two stages of immigrants’ integrations, screening, and settling. The government should not perforate ...

Learning English

Most immigrants insist that learning the English language was very critical for their success. The conviction among the immigrants concerning learning the English language could be attributed to their desire to be understood by the natives in NYC. Most of the immigrants agree to the fact that it is hard for an immigrant to land a good job or prosper in NYC without learning the English language. Only 12 percent of the immigrant population in NYC say that learning the English language is easy (Farkas, 2003). While 65 percent of the immigrant population suggests that the United States natives ...

[Date: mm/dd/yyyy] Sievers, W., Fassman, H., & Bommes, M. (2014). Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe: Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials. Amsterdam University Press.

Introduction

The book entitled as ‘Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe: Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials’, has been written by Michael Bommes, Heinz Fassmann and Wiebke Sievers. The book is aimed to enlighten prevalence of migration from the prominent regions of the Middle East to the Europe by means of determining the antecedents of migration and consequences on the European region. The primary author of ...

The 1980s was a complex era of transition, which saw the rise of military power, but also the emergence of new technology, as the fight against communist threats intensified. During this decade, the sci-fi genre reached immense popularity, and was closely related to the new blockbuster films which Hollywood exported throughout the world. During this decade, illegal immigration, the memory of the Vietnam War and the transformation of masculinity under the threat of feminism became prominent issues, which were reflected in the popular media of the time. As a genre which is particularly fit to reflect the anxieties and ...

Assimilation

Assimilation is a term which is so much associated with immigration. Its significance is not only felt in today’s immigrant communities but also throughout the history of the US. Previously, the term was used to mean a biological process carried out by the body used in the conversion of food into a substance which can be absorbed in digestion. However, the use of the term in today’s world as a physiological process has been eclipsed as a result of its greater social significance. Its broad use is evident by the many definitions it carries. Some sources define ...

IT MAY NOT WORK IN POLITICS

Charles Rangel famously known as Charlie Rangel is an example of a member of the House of Representatives who has been charged with ethics violation. Rangel was found guilty of ethical violations on 11 counts. It was explained that Charlie Rangel while still a member of the house of representatives inappropriately sought services of his congressional staff and the official congressional letterhead to solicit funds in range of seven figures from corporates, chief executives of major institutions, private and public entities and charities to fund a college wing that had been named in his honor. He was accused of ...

Abstract

Immigration has been a thorny subject for the past centuries. The issue has been widely debated and talked about since the influx of the movement of people from their original home countries to new countries for various reasons. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people from their native countries to countries where they do not hold citizenship with the main aim of settling there permanently or to take up employment. People who often cross international borders to other countries to look for jobs or with the intention of settling there are called immigrants. Whereas people continue to ...

Arturo Rivera is one of the characters in the book “The Book of Unknown Americans” by Christina Henriquez. He is portrayed as a determined, loving, caring and law-abiding father and husband who does all in his power to be able to support his family and give his wife and daughter a better life. He has been used to show the problems that the immigrant community undergo when they come to foreign lands and further he has been used to show the various reasons that cause the members of the immigrant community to leave their country to a foreign country, ...

Immigration is one of the most complicated aspects of the human experience. Even though they may share species, people around the world are very different, with each culture housing its own world. Even though the United States of America was a country designed for and by immigrants, it has developed its own way of life that the people that go there have to adapt to. Many people soon see that the American Dream is really an illusion and that they must constantly fight to keep themselves afloat. There may be many similarities between how people react to this change ...

Immigrants in California are an evolving part of the workforce whereby both employed and people seeking for employment opportunities comprise of many migrants. They constitute a larger portion of the general labor force vis-à-vis to the native-born labor providers in the region. Due to the rapidly aging population in the United States, the economy depends heavily on migrants’ work. This paper discusses the widespread utilization of immigrants’ labor in California and how their services can efficiently be supported to reduce the economic problems associated with the issue of immigration in the region. In addition, the article examines both ...

Many Latinos from South America, Central America, and Mexico have made decisions to either legally or illegally to immigrate into the United States of America over the past decades. Similarly, many Asian populations have migrated into the United States of America either legally or illegally. For decades, film makers have been capturing the experiences and stories of the immigrants in the United States of America. The exponential increase in the number of the immigrants over the past decades has led to the surge of high-quality documentaries, like Crossing Arizona, produced in the year 2006. In this film, varying degrees ...

When people look at the Statue of Liberty, they see a large effigy of a woman wearing a crown, holding a torch up towards the heavens and standing with a broken chain at her feet. Stationed on Liberty Island, which is located in New York City’s New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty has captivated the imagination of millions since it was opened to the public on October 28, 1886. There have been many interpretations as to what this larger-than-life monument constructed out of copper iron actually symbolizes. What can be seen when looking at the evidence is ...

Shot in 2003, the documentary film Lost Boys of Sudan by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk follows the challenges the Sudanese young men faced while surviving the civil war in their country and reaching the United States searching for the better life. The documentary got a critical acclaim and the love of the audience due to the overview it gives on one of the disturbing chapters in the history of humanity. David Mayom’s description of his experiences as a lost boy and life afterward may seem surrealistic for the person living in the developed country. It is truly ...

Immigrant Parents Analysis

The behavior of immigrant parents is unique and stands out in comparison to other groups of adults. Their traditionally high expectations of children and increased respect for education or professionalism are acute, and can be noticed greatly throughout American society. The attitudes and demonstrated abilities of their children therefore are adapted to a variety of circumstances and influences, creating unique patterns of psychological and social development. In this essay, the specific ways that being part of an immigrant family influences a child will be explored. Through theoretical and practical research, evidence of the positive as well as negative influences ...

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Australia is one of the many countries in which moral panics have resulted to elevated racism. The concerns about crime and the fear of crime in many Australian cities including Sydney have greatly shaped lifestyles and have influenced the qualities of life. It is evidently that crime in many Australian cities is continually being linked to immigrants and other ethnic minorities. In Australia, in the recent years, the issue of crime committed by ethnic minorities and immigrants has been the subject of many media headlines and has greatly shaped policies, both domestic and international. The 9/11 attacks in the ...

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Ever since the Republican nominee for the U.S. President’s office, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the President of the United States of America, he has surprised the American public and the Republican Party with his proposals. One of the most surprising proposals is over the issue of immigration, which has been a throne in the throats of both party’s leaders. One of the proposals that have been offered by Trump has been over the issue of immigration. Trump believes that American mainland and the American people need to be protected, and the only way is to ...

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In the modern world set up, parents and their children have different opinions with regards to issues that concern their lives. The different thoughts always come in as a result of how the parents were brought up in different traditional setting. The traditional communities had values that they considered as important for any person growing up. As a result, the persons were contained at one point because of these values which did not push the people forward but dragged them backward. In most cases, immigrants brought in traditions and practices from their home country cultures to the Canada thus ...

The second generation that both of the reviewed articles are centered around refers to the children of immigrants that were born in the USA. These children experience a variety of different social, financial and behavioral challenges of the rapidly evolving life in the USA. “The Second Generation” by Nancy Foner and Philipp Kasinitz studies different connotations of the word “generation” and explores the degrees to what the immigrants of the second generation are distanced from the country of their origin, its customs, traditions, culture and language. The idea that the second generation of immigrants experiences many hardships on their ...

IMMIGRATION CRISIS

Impact of immigration crisis on travel industry Introduction The European border has been open for refugees and countries never applied strict restriction on immigrants before the crisis of 2015. Due to globalization, the process of migration has increased, and Europe has to face surge. People due to several reasons started moving from their homelands to Europe. The flow of these immigrants is a mix of extremely complex factors. Even majority of immigrants arriving Europe because of the security reasons, but as the crisis is increasing it has to turn out to be necessary for Europe to take serious measures ( ...

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Towards the end of the twentieth century and in the first decade of the twenty first century, the world has undergone a drastic change. This has been, in a large measure due to the tremendous advances in transportation technology and internet communication technology. Goods and services from any corner of the world are accessible to anyone in any other part of the world. The rich and the middle class all over the world have access to latest in fashion, food and electronics. However, in every country, a considerable fraction of the population live in abject poverty and the modern ...

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ali, A. (2010). Exploring the Immigrant Experience through Self-Silencing Theory and the Full-Frame Approach: The Case of Caribbean Immigrant Women in Canada and the United States. Silencing the Self Across Cultures, 227-240. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398090.003.0011 The article explores the experience that is presented to the immigrants in the labor market due to poor structural policies in the immigration department. In the view of the author, the encounter of immigrants in the labor industry has been a mixture of good and bad experiences depending on the levels of expertise. The author points to the increasing admission of immigrants into the Canadian territories ...

Information has helped humans to change the course of nature, track the stars, and shape the course of history. However, the power of information needs a favourable environment to flourish. Without the conceptual and intellectual framework as well as the channels that allow people to assimilate, process, and apply a specific datum of information to a specific situation, the information is useless (Jha, 2014). The internet is the broadest information source across the globe. In the film Back To The Future, a teenager travels back in time and uses information about the future to make positive changes to events ...

Question 1

Migrants have faced a significant problem settling or rather adapting to their host countries. Nonetheless, there are different ways they can use to adjust to the host society, for instance, ethnic pluralism, assimilation, and transnationalism. Assimilation is whereby two distinct groups of people from different cultures merge to share a common culture. When migrants move to new countries, they have to assimilate with the natives by learning their culture and social life. On the other hand, there is pluralism whereby a group of people come together and decides to maintain their identity and culture. For the case of the ...

In the United States, eligible immigrants are lawfully residing immigrants and naturalized citizens. Unlike undocumented citizens, they are eligible for enrolling in Medicaid to benefit from affordable healthcare services. Getting connected to health coverage by these immigrants has been burdensome to some of them. Immigrant patients have faced problems in language and transport barriers, fears and confusions due to unfamiliarity with the healthy system, limited access to technology, incompetency in meeting documentation requirements and challenges associated with getting specialty care due to lengthy referrals. Reducing or entirely eliminating these challenges will make the immigrant connections to healthcare services easier ( ...