to care for them. Some women did not have a family capable of arranging marriages. These women were also forced to become wantons. These women could have been captured for the sex trade‚ orphans‚ or refugees (King 100.) Thailand has seen a great influx in the amount of tourism. This is due to something referred to as sex tourism. Thailand is a third world country‚ yet it is emerging as an economic leader. According to Professor Krikiat Phiapatserithan of Thammasat University‚ sex tourism generates
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Today I will be discussing elements of Australia’s immigration policies from the latter part of the 20th century with respect to the influx of migrants after World War 2. In particular‚ my presentation will delve into the area of why Australia’s immigration policies changed during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. This era was historically paramount to Australia becoming the diverse
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immigrants enter the country with the intentions getting meaningful employment. However‚ others have the intention of passing through the border undetected so that they can later carry out terror activities against the American people. The current influx of illegal immigrants and individuals overstaying their visas has exacerbated the situation for border and interior enforcement agencies capacity to specifically focus on organized crime‚ violent felons‚ as well as terrorist groups because they use
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California were from various backgrounds which included the toiling farmer‚ the briefless lawyer‚ and the starving student. About 90% of goldrushers were men in their 20’s‚ middle class‚ eager to make money and they had money to start out. The rapid influx of population is due to the many people seeking sudden wealth. Although the agriculture sums that the farmers garner today are worth much more than the Gold Rush had brought in a century‚ I believe that the two billion-dollar fortune that
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In the 1920s‚ there was a split in the ideology of the people of the United States. Some people in the country wanted to regress back in time‚ seeing change as a loss of America’s traditional ways. Others welcomed future‚ preparing and even working toward change. During this time‚ American society faced a conflict of interests on progressivism versus nativism‚ such as in the beliefs of religion versus science as well as immigration‚ though the major conflict was the reestablishment of the Ku Klux
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Revolution- worked in the U.S. to escape violence Immigration continued since people were traveling back and forth Lack of Jobs in the U.S. during WWII- Bracero Program (Mexican workers were allowed to legally work in the United States) Concerns about the influx of undocumented workers‚ so they ended the guest worker program Decline in Mexican economy caused many laborers to look for jobs in the United States hoping to fix their financial problems Immigration Reform and Control Act- granted amnesty to immigrants
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in‚ the nation has seen an influx of immigration. The means of moving to the United States has become long and complicated as there are many “steps in the immigrant visa process‚” (“The Immigrant Visa Process”). Many immigrants choose to come to the U.S. undocumented. Since the interpretation of the fourteenth amendment holds that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen‚ birth tourism has become very popular. Birth tourism is “the practice of foreigners traveling to the United States
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At the beginning of the antebellum age Christianity was heaven bent on reforming sexual attitudes to be rooted in righteous dogma. In the eyes of Christian leadership young‚ innocent‚ growing America had the chance to create a true idealized Christian society. As the Christian leadership noticed that people were losing their bearings on the path toward an idealized holy purpose‚ they armed themselves with rhetoric and searched for the perpetrators that caused the degradation. As time passed and the
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CHINA‚ INDIA‚ AND JAPAN RESPONDS TO WESTERN IMPERIALISM C. H. HIS 351 Asia in Age of Decolonization and Globalization August 2012 Western imperialism or expansion ignored a country’s sovereign right to self-rule and independence from dominant foreign powers. Using the premise of colonization or Manifest Destiny‚ the search for trade routes‚ raw goods and materials‚ and cheap sources of labor legitimized imperialistic might. Whether it was the undiscovered countries of the Americas‚ the dark
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Case of Unocal Burma A landmark case The Unocal case is a breakthrough for foreigners trying to sue multinational corporations for their alleged collaboration with repressive regimes in human rights abuses. Work in progress at the Yadana pipeline project ... modern equivalent of slavery? Unocal Corporation‚ the California-based giant gas-and-petroleum corporation‚ will face trial in a United States court on charges of forced labour of Burmese people to build the $1.2 billion Yadana Gas Pipeline
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