Essays on Immigration

This research paper explains the reasons why people immigrate to a Western country, not an Eastern country. Immigration is to move to other countries as that country’s citizens. Sometime, even they never come back to their hometown if they illegally immigrate. In 18th century, many...

The composers of the 2011 social experiment ‘Go back to where you came from’ deliberately create a representation of refugees and asylum seekers in order to build empathy and alter our notions about refugees and asylum seekers. They achieve this through various factors within the...

In the memoir, The Distance Between Us, Renya Grande shares with us a story about her childhood and the struggles and difficulties that she faced while she tries to keep her family together on their journey across the United States-Mexico border. Throughout the memoir, there...

What does it mean to be human? This is a simple question. My first thoughts are that I am conscious, breathing and alive. However so is my cat so this answer needs some work! If you ask a Scientist, you may get a different answer...

As different cultural groups immigrated to the United States, they seeked for a better life and future for their family. When they arrive to the United States, they encountered racial discrimination and segregation. As a way to voice their concerns, artists created paintings and murals...

Coming from a foreign country to migrate to a new one is not always easy. In fact it is not easy at all. The struggles of moving from a place you are so used to, to being received into a place that will “ give”...

In recent years, there has been a massive influx of refugees and migrants from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe. Refugees are someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their own country because of a founded fear of being persecuted because...

The rational choice hypothesis is portrayed as the conviction that guilty criminals take an interest in illegal behaviors with information on the law and plausibility of apprehension. They measure the favorable circumstances and inconveniences before they participate in criminal conduct and if they feel that...

Though migration is not a prerequisite for human trafficking to occur, human trafficking involves the movement of people across national and international boundaries. In this case human trafficking can be seen as one segment of the broader human migration. There are a variety of theoretical...

With the development of globalization and science technology, the distance between people has been greatly reduced, and the exchanges and interactions between countries become more frequent. Now, the means of transportation to foreign countries is so convenient that the time to move to other countries...

In the modern world, increasing globalization has led to opening borders of different countries all over world for trades like exchanging goods, technology, resources, education. People are interested in gaining new skills and work in a more diverse backgrounds, therefore they are travelling to new...

Every day, thousands of illegal immigrants from Mexico come into the United States, taking advantage of our jobs, industries, and money. This will keep happening so long as we don’t take action. For centuries now, America has taken pride in being an open community for...

India is a land of culture and superstition. Maintaining the culture is like a prestige for all. Different cultures normally appear to segregate domains whereas in immigrant sensibility the impulse to transgress boundaries and to mingle cultures is inevitable. While the first generation immigrants acculturate,...

In today research I am going to be discussing the culture gap between second generation immigrants and their immigrant parents. Firstly, what is culture? What is a culture gap? Culture, Edward Burnett Tylor, is described to be the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,...

Walls and borders have been around for tens of thousands of years they serve purposes such as showing one’s territory or serve as a defence mechanism. As protective walls arose around the world they affected how people lived, worked, and fought. Although long before walls...

Introduction to the Topic Since the election of President Trump, there has been a promise from his, as well as his campaign team that a physical wall will be constructed along the southern border. At the onset of this statement, there was going to be...

Throughout the world, refugees have been through a lot. They’ve moved from one country to another, in order to create more opportunities in life. Picture a mother of four crying, because they weren’t able to see their children for years. That’s why I titled this...

October 29. 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, will forever be known as one of the most significant days in the 20th century. It was on this day that the stock market crashed rattling the United States and Canadian economies. For Canadians, this time meant...

“But all Americans are hurt by uncontrolled, illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages” (Trump). America has always been known as the melting pot, a place where people come from any country imaginable to live the “American Dream”. While racism...