immigration

Examples of immigration in the following topics:

• Immigration and Illegal Immigration

  • In recent years, immigration has increased substantially.
  • Until the 1930s most legal immigrants were male.
  • American attitudes toward immigration are markedly ambivalent.
  • Illegal immigrants continue to outpace the number of legal immigrants—a trend that's held steady since the 1990s.
  • More than 50% of illegal immigrants are from Mexico.

• Assimilation

  • Social scientists rely on four benchmarks, initially formulated when studying European immigrants in the U.S., to assess immigrant assimilation:
  • Thus, immigration debates focus not only on the number of immigrants that should be admitted into a country and the processes of incorporation, but also on how citizenship should be extended and to whom.
  • Jimenez have suggested that these geographical shifts may change the way researchers assess immigrant assimilation, as immigrants settling in new areas may encounter different experiences than immigrants settling in more traditional gateways.
  • If the child belongs to a group that has been exempt from the prejudice experienced by most immigrants, such as European immigrants, they will experience a smoother process of assimilation.
  • Give a real life example for each of the four benchmarks of immigrant assimilation

• Migration

  • Close to 37% of Americans have never moved from the community in which they were born.There are wide variations in native inhabitants, however: 76% of Texans were born in-state while only 14% of Nevadans were born in-state.Some states lose a large number of people who were born in the state as well, like Alaska, where only 28% of the people born in that state have remained there.Immigration is often a controversial topic, for a variety of reasons, though many have to do with competition between those already living in the destination location and those arriving in that location.One recent study finds that one type of competition between immigrants and non-immigrants may be overstated.Some people have suggested that natives' opportunities to attend college are negatively impacted through competition with immigrants.Neymotin (2009) finds that competition with immigrants does not harm the educational outcomes of U.S. natives and may in fact facilitate college attending.

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • The immigration law in Arizona, SB 1070, for example, requires that Arizona police officers verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally in the event of a lawful stop, detention, or arrest.
  • There was also the forced immigration of African slaves.
  • Native Americans, who did not immigrate but rather inhabited the land prior to immigration, experienced displacement as a result.
  • Today, the U.S. continues to see a significant influx of immigrants from all over the world.
  • Mexican Americans, especially those who are here illegally, are at the center of a national debate about immigration.

• Introduction

  • Located in Chicago, Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.
  • In addition to making available services and cultural opportunities for the largely immigrant population of the neighborhood, Hull House afforded an opportunity for young social workers to acquire training.
  • These studies enabled the Hull House residents to confront the establishment, eventually partnering with them in the design and implementation of programs intended to enhance and improve the opportunities for success by the largely immigrant population.

• Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

  • In addition, many Jews immigrated to the U.S. as a result of WWII and their persecution during the Holocaust.
  • Many faiths have flourished in the United States, including later imports spanning the country's multicultural immigrant heritage and those founded within the country, These disparate faiths have led the U.S. to become one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world.
  • The religion came with the arrival of Hispanics/Latinos, Irish, Highland Scots, Italians, Dutch, Flemish, Polish, French, Hungarians, German, and Lebanese immigrants.
  • Buddhism entered the U.S. during the 19th century with the arrival of the first immigrants from Eastern Asia.

• Minorities

  • Voluntary assimilation is usually the case with immigrants, who often adopt the dominant culture established earlier.
  • Socially pressured to adapt, the immigrant is generally the one who takes the steps to integrate into the new environment.
  • The adaptation is made more difficult when the immigrant does not speak the language of his or her new home.
  • During the 1930s and 1940s, attempts were made to prevent Jews from immigrating to the Middle East.

• Capitalism, race and gender inequality

  • The increase of immigrants in the U.S. and the loss of jobs to other countries illustrate a core belief that the greatest problem American workers experience is unfair competition from immigrants in the U.S. and workers abroad.

• A Multicultural Society

  • In the United States, continuous mass immigration has been a feature of economy and society since the first half of the 19th century.
  • The absorption of the stream of immigrants in itself became a prominent feature of America's national myth, inspiring its own narrative about its past.
  • This found particular expression in America as a "Melting Pot," a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention.
  • This metaphor also suggests that each individual immigrant, and each group of immigrants, assimilated into American society at their own pace.
  • It was partly in response to a new wave of European imperialism in sub-Saharan Africa and the massive immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans to the United States and Latin America.

• Islam

  • Once very small, the Muslim population of the U.S. increased greatly in the 20th century, with much of the growth driven by rising immigration and conversion, and a comparatively high birth rate.
  • Most of the immigrants, coming from Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire, came with the purpose of making money and returning to their homeland.
  • As a result, the immigrants settled in the United States permanently.
  • These immigrants settled primarily in Dearborn, Michigan; Quincy, Massachusetts; and Ross, North Dakota.
  • However, since 9/11, the two groups joined together when the immigrant communities looked towards the African Americans for advice on civil rights.