increasing amount of head taxes and the decreasing Chinese population in Canada. With the Gold Rush in the 1860s‚ many Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to search for a fortune of their own. Little did they know that the head taxes would increase from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars in a matter of three years (n.a.‚ Taxing) to reduce the numbers of Chinese immigrants. Inching its way with the small steps being taken to addressing
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The Good Immigrant Students Draft #1 Nguyen open up with her article by explaining her way to live in Grand Rapids‚ Michigan as an immigrants students. She also describe living with family on a gray house on Baldwin Street‚ she was living with her Father‚ Grandmother‚ three uncle‚ her sister and her. The life was hard living because they have to deal with paranoid and struggles. It was a new world for her and her family so they were trying to adapt in this situation
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Cherry Lopez Professor: Brown Sociology The Immigrant Experience-Past and Present The person I interviewed is Carlos Orellana. He is a Honduran who came to the United States crossing Mexico. Orellana came to the U.S.A in search of a better future for him and his family‚ without realizing how hard it was going to be; finding a path full of bitterness‚ sadness‚ desolation‚ despair and loneliness. How did you come to America? I came to America across all of Mexico. It was very difficult to
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I am a first-generation immigrant‚ who have struggled with cultural identity because I grew up with two different cultural values. My childhood consisted of seeing people who look like me and who identified with the same cultural ideas; however‚ after moving to southern California‚ I witnessed a diverse population with different cultures. My cultural influences come from my parents and peers and the media‚ so I feel conflicted between the traditional and conservative culture of my parents and the
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Epidemiology of Diabetes in Mexican Immigrants This paper will center on the vulnerable population of Mexican-American immigrants with chronic type II adult-onset diabetes and how this affects this growing population. The definition‚ description‚ steps‚ and method of epidemiology will facilitate the discussion. Routine data such as demographics‚ census‚ birth‚ death‚ and surveillance records‚ and research data such as medical and health records‚ will bring pertinent information to the study. The
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of an immigrant. As a first- generation immigrant‚ I had to learn English and take the helms of steering my own education without the privilege of my parents at home. Growing up‚ I remember my mother working two jobs and my father working graveyard shifts in to sustain our family. I watched as they struggled to ensure a better life for me. However‚ long hours and tight financial situations reach a boiling point even for those steadfast. I witnessed the financial struggles of being an immigrant family
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This will be a vetting of the illegal immigrants. The vetting will involve an analysis of their backgrounds such as criminal records and issues such as drugs or connections with drug cartels and other aspects. Other factors such as embedment into the society as well as the contribution to the country through responsible employment and family ties in the society will be considered in the vetting process (Hollifield‚ Martin & Orrenius‚ 2014). These factors will enable the vetting body to approve or
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family. Just like Americans born here‚ immigrants dream for a hope of a better life. Immigrants have different motives for coming to America. As Yuliya Sandler‚ an immigrant from Ukraine in the late ‘90s‚ said‚ “One of the main reasons [to come to this country] was for the religious freedom” because that was hard to have in Ukraine at that time. Also‚ to have more political freedom‚ to have better opportunities and to have a great job. No matter the reason‚ immigrants risk everything for a chance to pursue
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independence for their rights and freedom. Seeing that was the case‚ it symbolized a nation in which freedom and equality became the ideal. This ideology‚ however‚ contradicted itself as immigrants began to come into the US from many nations‚ especially Asian women. There were not many Asian women immigrants prior to the Magnusan Act in the 1943‚ which repealed the Exclusion Act‚ and even after successfully entering the US‚ they struggled to identify themselves in the new world because of the racial
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that is thoroughly connected with the aspects of identity. Also “The Immigrant”‚ a poem by Afzal Moolla has the theme of a diminished identity running throughout the whole poem‚ whereas similarly‚ “Big World” by Tim Winton has the aspects of a façade identity. Studying these texts has unfolded my understanding and knowledge about identity. Moolla uses highly a negative tone in the poem as shown when he describes the immigrant as a “rotten prejudice” and also words like “fungal anger.” This extensive
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