First‚ with the coming of the immigrants‚ Singapore began to open itself up as a centre for entrepot trade. It began to import and export goods for different areas to different parts of the world. These immigrants also provided important support services such as workers in the dockyards‚ plantations‚ factories and some even provided daily necessities for traders all over the world. All these contributions of the immigrants helped to maintain Singapore as an attractive trading centre and kept it competitive
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records to make quantitative comparisons between streams of immigrants arriving from Europe. These comparisons lead to determining the migrant group characteristics of various immigrant streams. In general‚ it made logical sense that the makeup of immigrant streams would vary depending on the country of origin. The results of the study confirmed the accuracy of the “Passengers List” and displayed the changes in the composition of immigrant streams during the period of mass immigration. Beginning in
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The American Dream is a philosophy that start in the 19th century referring to migrating to a place where rich men and poor men could stand on the same footing. In the 19th century many German immigrants were coming to America in hopes of settling where ever they please without a passport and pursue a living. Most were fleeing Germany to avoid the “right of birth” or royal hierarchy and the corruption that lied within it. In the 20th century the American Dream became known as the California Dream
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from countries all around the world seek a life in America where they look to capitalize on the opportunities available here and freedom to be the person they want to be. Immigrants bring a rich sense of culture with them in the form of myth and religious practices which have been imposed upon them in their homeland. Not all immigrants however mesh as well as others. South-Korean Americans travel here and often find a need to change the way they act in order to fit in. I will be exploring the intersection
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health systems‚ proper housing‚ education‚ banks‚ and employment. There are some immigrants who forge identity documentation to obtain access to most of these basic benefits. Unfortunately‚ this is extremely risky and many do not take this chance in fear of being deported or being sent to immigration detention centers‚ where there you are stripped of your human rights and treated inhumanely. Life as an undocumented immigrant is very hard. They cannot legally work in the US‚ therefore not being able to
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assimilated to some of the German culture and looked at Germans as model immigrants. The Germans are credited for bringing over pianos‚ as well as their ability to brew good beer‚ which only furthered the positive stereotype towards them. During the World Wars the English influenced America to become involved in the war against Germany. Anti-German sentiment arose rapidly and caused the Germans to no longer be the “model immigrant” in the eyes of the Americans. In the movie Sweet Land the feeling towards
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Coming from an Asian immigrant family and being one myself‚ I always knew that it couldn’t have been easy for my parents to leave everything behind and start a new life in the states. In 2002‚ my family of seven moved from Vietnam to California. I was only four years old‚ and have no recollection whatsoever on the process of immigrating. My mother was my choice of interviewee for this assignment‚ and after conducting the interview‚ I learned more about my family’s history than I had before. To
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In 2017‚ Canada announced their plan to fill a 300‚000 quota number of incoming immigrants. That is a large number and appears like Canada is showing such openness for incoming immigrants. But this innocuous sentence can be problematic. It can be difficult to gage the problems of Canadian perception of immigration when one’s family arrived in the country several generations ago and now identify as a native Canadian. The word “quota” is problematic in describing immigration for its inferred meaning
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These study objectives are to better understanding of immigrant entrepreneurial identity formation from the perspective of autobiographical narrative analysis. Studies on immigrant entrepreneurship identity has been dominated by works of scholars who basically fall into two main steams. The first one deals with such issues as ethnic‚ female entrepreneurship‚ and in many cases it reduces immigrant entrepreneurship identity to ethno-cultural phenomenon‚ which exists outside or at least in the margins
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Unlike natural born citizens‚ immigrants practice two forms of citizenship: ascriptive and consensual. As defined by Rogers Smith‚ ascriptive citizenship is inherited at birth while consensual citizenship is a choice (Smith 20). One interpretation of Smith’s definitions of citizenship is that a person can only be defined as one type of citizen. This is a very realistic interpretation‚ as many who immigrate to America continue to practice traditions of their culture. However‚ that is not always the
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