Why People Move To America

Millions of people from over the world leave their homelands to migrate to countries other than their own. People are forced to leave because of personal, financial or political situations. People’s decision to migrate can bring either happiness or difficulty. People may find it hard to adjust or settle in a place they have not seen before. These people are introduced with new laws, locations, and cultures. They also have difficulty adapting and being accepted. People migrate to other countries for several reasons.
One of the reasons why people migrate is to seek human rights. These people might be coming from war zoned, oppressed countries that reject them of these rights. The United States holds a valuable document that offers security
In Two Ways to Belong in America, two sisters from Calcutta, Mira and Bharati migrated to the United States to work and obtain a visa. Bharati’s sister, Mira had a hard time adjusting to the immigration laws of the United States. Mira shares the following with her sister Bharati, “I feed used,” Mira raged on the phone the other night. I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited to stay and work here because of her talent. My employer went to the I.N.S. and petitioned for the labor certification. For over 30 years, I’ve invested my creativity and professional skills into the improvement of this country’s pre-school system”. (Mukherjee, 292). Mira felt that she had invested her time and hard work in the United States and this alone should allow her to stay in the country without changing her status. She believed that the new immigration laws cheated the ones who have already arrived in the United States. She felt that the new immigration laws should only apply to new immigrants. Her sister Bharati, encouraged Mira to apply for citizenship like she had. Mira was not comfortable in going through the process to become a U.S. Citizen because she felt betrayed by the
The cultural norms they brought with them from Syria are not practiced or accepted in Canada. Ian Kaufman, who lives in the complex said that “when the large group of Syrians first arrived at Leaside more than a year ago, they took gathering with their small mats in the lobbies of the two buildings for group prayers. If you want to talk about cultural conflict, it was right of the bat,” he says. The group prayers were short-lived. Someone intervened, explained that this could not be done in communal spaces, and the Syrians retreated to their apartments. (Bascaramurty, 5) The Syrian families got comfortable in praying in the communal spaces, but they were not aware that this was not practiced in Canada. This practice was not something they wanted to adapt to, but the residents were not comfortable with them praying in communal