Essays on Immigration in America

Immigration has become one of the most sort after, as well as contentious issues in the United States of America (Koppelman, 2016). It has been debated widely by the US citizens, politicians and the government at large. It has become an issue of concern to...

“They are stealing our jobs!” “When they send their people, they’re are not sending their best. ”This outcry was articulated in 2016 and still echoes in the social conversation, not only in the US, but in a global context as well: from Greece refusing entry...

As the civilization experienced changes and development processes, the population of the planet Earth grew. Accordingly, immigration is a logical process that has always had a place to be. Because of incomprehensibly different expectations for everyday comforts caused by expansive wage incongruities among nations, individuals...

Could you Imagine being just one year old, and your father says goodbye to you in China and returned to Canada. He wouldn’t see you for the next 18 years, and you were prevented from joining him by a racist Canadian law. This was not...

The idea that “The American musical sprung from slavery and immigration” certainly has its merits when examining the main currents in the American musical prior to 1942, as influences from minstrel shows and the influx of immigration introduced new performance styles and subject matters to...

America is in the Heart begins with Bulosan’s childhood and traces a difficult immigrant experience defined by poverty, rootlessness and illness and culminates in a remaking of his self through writing. As Rajini Srikanth notes, the novel is “curiously marked by a faith and idealism...

In the short story “The Blossoming of Bongbong,” the main character, Bongbong, moves to America with big hopes to reshape his life and achieve success. This vague notion of the American dream leads to Bongbong’s desire for the quintessential, yet seemingly paradoxical American life: a...

Cinematic depictions of American-fought wars in Asia usually focus on the physical aspects of action – the momentous violence and fighting. Once in a while, a film will come along to challenge the glorification of such violence; however, both types of film tend to use...

When immigrating to America the idea which occurred in my mind was excitement since I can eventually achieve the American Dream that I has long been told. America where everyone is given opportunities to be successful despite their culture, social class or ethnic. Regarding “the...

Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart meditates on the place of Filipino writers within American literature. In America Is in the Heart, there are two “types” of writers that are presented: “American writers” and “Filipino writers.” Carlos Bulosan characterizes “American writers” as ones who...

Being an expatriate who longs to go back to the homeland and is able to do so on a regular basis does not have to rely on assimilating. Creating a new, comfortable life and network in an alien environment can be grueling, which makes a...

Since its birth, America has been declared a nation of immigrants, an asylum for those who must to abandon their country, be it because of famine, religious or political oppression, the aspiration of owning land or the opportunity for a job. However, the acceptance of...

The opposing views between liberals and conservatives is a never ending debate in itself. One side supports positive things to say on the topic while the opposing has mainly negative and constructive points. Depending on which part of the spectrum one falls they will use...

One of the biggest issues we see today in our community is about immigrants’ rights and the number of deportations that have occurred these past years. Why is it that immigrants are always looked down as and aren´t given the same rights as citizens? “They...

Immigration is a very controversial topic in the United States. Some people want a wall built between Mexico and the United States to stop illegal immigration. Others want open borders. Some are worried about national security, while others are worried about the people trying to...

More than 44.5 million immigrants resided in the United States in 2017, which is the historical high since census records have been kept and according to 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) data, one in seven U.S. residents is foreign born. In this essay I will...

Immigration. It’s a controversial topic that has two sides to it, with some seeing it as something positive and others as negative. With Immigration mainly being perceived as something negative and used as a scapegoat whenever the nation finds itself dealing with problems, many either...

There has been an ongoing debate about America’s immigration system that the power to shake our whole country. There’s the side that treats everyone who comes into this country with a dream as an equal and will go to extreme lengths to fight for their...

Wilson Four case highlights issues of immigration which has been one of the major problems experienced by the United States. Fortunately, the Wilson Four case never impacted the four students because it was thrown out by a federal immigration judge for racial profiling. According to...