Essays on Immigration

America is a country that was founded and built by immigrants. Diversity has been the character that we are proud of our country for. It is known as a melting pot of different cultures and identities; or, at least, that is what we are led...

Culture is the compilation of the social behavior and norms found in societies across the globe, along with the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, and habits of the individuals within these groups. It can be a fruitful concept that can directly or indirectly affect the...

Chinese migration has had a large variety of positive and negative effects on Australia. These include increases in diversity, workforce, economic activity, stereotypes and prejudice, and decreases in housing affordability. There are three reasons why Chinese people migrated to Australia in recent years (from 1990’s...

Chinese parents have a very important part to play in the family as providers for all. While the elders were always at the controlling end for reasons of respect, the next generation married and had children as young as possible and then worked as hard...

To end public drunkenness and Americans social standard of consuming alcohol, the United States Government implemented prohibition of alcohol. Lisa McGirr, a professor of history at Harvard University and specialist in the history of the 20th century United States, recently published a book with a...

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...

The problem of illegal immigration 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...

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,...