immigration

Examples of immigration in the following topics:

• Impact of Immigration on the Immigrant

  • Immigrants move to another country with the intent to improve their life; however, immigration presents both benefits and challenges for immigrants.
  • Immigration presents both benefits and challenges for immigrants.
  • There are many benefits associated with immigration.
  • No matter what the reasoning is behind immigration, it provides the immigrant with a new start on life and more growth opportunities than were previously available.
  • One of the initial challenges faced by immigrants is the cost of immigrating.

• Dimensionalizing Immigration: Numbers of Immigrants around the World

  • Examples of immigration patterns in certain countries help to illustrate how specific factors influence immigration numbers worldwide.
  • The largest groups of immigrants were from Korea, China, and Brazil.
  • The tighter immigration laws have made immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico very challenging.
  • Many Mexican immigrants enter and live in the U.S. illegally.
  • This graph shows the worldwide net immigration rate in 2011.

• Impact of Immigration on the Host and Home Country Economies

  • A host country experiences both advantages and challenges as a result of immigration.
  • Others believe that high immigration numbers threaten national identity, increase dependence on welfare, and threaten national security (through illegal immigration or terrorism).
  • Another argument is that high immigration rates cheapens labor.
  • The home country also faces specific challenges in regards to immigration.
  • Explain how immigration impacts the host country and the home country of immigrants

• Industrial Growth

  • Many new workers were immigrants.
  • Between 1845 and 1855, some 300,000 European immigrants arrived annually.

• Basic Ingredients of the U.S. Economy

  • Until shortly after World War I, most workers were immigrants from Europe, their immediate descendants, or African-Americans whose ancestors were brought to the Americas as slaves.
  • In the early years of the 20th century, large numbers of Asians immigrated to the United States, while many Latin American immigrants came in later years.
  • Although the United States has experienced some periods of high unemployment and other times when labor was in short supply, immigrants tended to come when jobs were plentiful.
  • When immigrants flooded labor markets on the East Coast, many workers moved inland, often to farmland waiting to be tilled.

• The Importance of Factor Prices

  • For example, imagine a country has a population boom from immigration.

• Defining and Measuring Economic Mobility

  • Approaching this social tie with income inequity has taken a great deal of political reform over the years, and has much left to accomplish in terms of enabling movement across economic levels.This could in many ways be coupled with immigration, or the concept of being different socially or ethnically from a group that has historically achieved high income levels.

• Introduction to American Agriculture: Its Changing Significance

  • Moreover, many Americans -- particularly immigrants who may have never held any land and did not have ownership over their own labor or products -- found that owning a farm was a ticket into the American economic system.

• Introduction to Labor in America: The Worker's Role

  • With the rise of factories, children, women, and poor immigrants were commonly employed to run machines.

• The Labor Movement's Early Years

  • In 1881, Samuel Gompers, a Dutch immigrant cigar-maker, and other craftsmen organized a federation of trade unions that five years later became the American Federation of Labor (AFL).