fleeing the recessionAs the European economic crisis deepens‚ more and more people are leaving to seek a better life in emerging economies around the world. We speak to four who have moved abroad For years Europeans have wrestled with the issue of immigration‚ from worries about changing national identity to integration and use of resources. And with Romanian and Bulgarian citizens eligible to work in the EU next year‚ the debate over whether – and how many – immigrants from struggling economies should
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spouses from foreign lands into the U.S. (non-quota immigrants) 1980 Refugee Policy-Central Americans (Salvadorians and Guatemalans) came under this policy while others were coming in as non refugees. Immigration Reform and Control Act (I.R.C.A)-does 3 things Raises the immigration ceiling for the whole world. More slots to distribute Grants amnesty to undocumented residents that could prove that they were living here since 1982 Fined people who employed undocumented workers Forced
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Immigration and Ethnic Identity Name Institution Introduction The migration of ethnic communities has become a major part of immigration across the world. Each year increasing number of immigrants arrive at the border of western countries such as Australia and a large number of these immigrants are refugees (Manning‚ 2005). Immigration is the movement of people and their belongings into a country for the purpose of settling permanently (Saggar‚ et al‚ 2012). Generally‚ immigration
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After the Transcontinental Railroad was constructed‚ the fate of the Chinese took a dive for the worse because in 1882‚ the United States of America created the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was established to end Chinese immigration and shut the “golden gates” of America. Prior to 1882‚ the Chinese were viewed as tolerable and hard working‚ but as soon as the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed‚ people recognized the Chinese as dirty‚ lazy‚ and unworthy to be in America. As James
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was already occupied. While the first wave of immigrants came from Western Europe‚ eventually the bulk of people entering North America were from Northern Europe‚ then Eastern Europe‚ then Latin America and Asia. And let us not forget the forced immigration of African slaves. Most of these groups underwent a period of disenfranchisement in which they were relegated to the bottom of the social hierarchy before they managed (for those who could) to achieve social mobility. Today‚ our society is multicultural
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U.S. Policy for Chinese Immigration The California gold rush of 1849 and new discoveries of gold in Colorado and Nevada in the late 1850s attracted a large number of Asians to the American West. In the 1860s others came to work on the cross-country railroad‚ and some were shipped east to break strikes in the 1870s. Denigrated as the “Yellow Peril‚” Asians became the target of racist attacks. Anti-Chinese riots erupted in San Francisco in 1877‚ leading President Rutherford Hayes to write in
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The Homestead Act (1862): On May 20‚ 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act to provide travelers with 160 acres of public land. In return‚ the settlers would have to live there and improve the land for at least five years. This Act caused distribution of about eighty million acres of land to the public. With this great offer hundreds of people decided to pack their bags and move to the west. Sand Creek Massacre(1864): The Homestead Act persuaded many settlers to move West in hopes
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Tier 4 General Student Visa Immigration Guide 2012-13 Contents What is a visa? .......................................................................................................2 • Who needs a visa? ....................................................................................................................................................2 • Tier 4 general visa.....................................................................................................................
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I cannot quite describe what I was feeling the day that my mother loaded me onto a large ship on that cold‚ dark day. England was the only place that I had ever called home. After my father and two younger siblings died‚ my mother was determined that I would travel to America for a new life. A life that I could never have in England. My young‚ sixteen year old mind could not quite comprehend the entire reasoning of why my mother wanted to send me away to a place that either of us had ever been
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Mariah Hernandez Ms. Hines Period 5 October 28‚ 2014 457200-3175My name is Adarlina Woods. I was sixteen when I arrived in America in 1853 at the port of Ellis Island. I remember how the cold salt water created a bitter air around us as well as the brisk winter air. All around me I saw men‚ women‚ and children surrounding me‚ their bony bodies shivering hard‚ bringing the clothes they barely had one their backs tighter around them. I had a few suitcases and offered a few spare coats I had.
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