Immigration

Immigration is a big step for an individual or family and it requires moving from one country to live permanently in a foreign country. In some cases you live in your home country for almost your whole life and then you move to a new country which is really different from where you came from. Throughout my paper I will show the immigration experience of the person I interviewed and Canadian Immigration and the differences and similarities and my personal thoughts regarding immigration.
My Interviewee was my dad he immigrated to Canada on February 17 1985. He came from Pakistan and was sponsored by his elder brother. He was born in a village in Pakistan in Punjab. In his culture he had the large family system and he said it was very relaxed sort of environment. In his country there was no concept of woman going to work his mother stayed home she was a housewife basically. While his father went to work he use to work for Inland Revenue he was their officer before then he was in Police. I asked him the significance of being a land owner and said first of all obviously if you own land you've got crops of your own, wheat, flour and all that. You know, grain, vegetables, fruits milk and butter. It gives you a little bit financial soundness because you don't depend on other people, you don't have to worry about where you are going to eat. Number two obviously give you a little bit people respect you because you help them out, and you get some sort of job satisfaction that you are in a position to help the other human being. And of course it gives you a reasonable status in the society because you are on the giving end rather than on the receiving end. His life in school was very different as he has memories when he got strict punishments for not completing homework, coming to school late or talking while the teacher is teaching a lesson. The teacher would yell or in some cases even hit the student. After bearing the punishments his secondary and college life changed