illegal immigration

Examples of illegal immigration in the following topics:

• Immigration and Illegal Immigration

  • The illegal immigrant population is estimated to be between 7 and 20 million.
  • More than 50% of illegal immigrants are from Mexico.
  • While the majority of illegal immigrants continue to concentrate in places with existing large Hispanic communities, illegal immigrants are increasingly settling throughout the rest of the country.
  • As a significant percentage of employers are willing to hire illegal immigrants for higher pay than they would typically receive in their former country, illegal immigrants have prime motivation to cross borders.
  • Discuss the history and status of immigration (both legal and illegal) and the workforce in the United States

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • As both legal and illegal immigrants with high population numbers, Hispanic Americans are often the target of stereotyping, racism, and discrimination.
  • 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.
  • Native Americans, who did not immigrate but rather inhabited the land prior to immigration, experienced displacement as a result.
  • Mexican Americans, especially those who are here illegally, are at the center of a national debate about immigration.
  • Mexican immigrants experience relatively low rates of economic and civil assimilation, which is most likely compounded by the fact that many of them are illegally in the country.

• Assimilation

  • Social scientists rely on four benchmarks, initially formulated when studying European immigrants in the U.S., to assess immigrant assimilation:
  • Questions of citizenship in relation to illegal immigration is a particularly controversial issue and a common source of political tension.
  • 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

• Social Construct or Biological Lineage?

  • Conversely, in a nation bent on westward expansion (commonly referred to as illegal immigration and / or ethnic conquest today), it was advantageous to diminish the numbers of those who could claim title to Indian lands by classifying them out of existence.
  • Although European immigrants to the Americas initially attempted to enslave Native people, their efforts were often subverted due to Native understandings of the land.
  • As a result, slave labor from other parts of the world was deemed more efficient for the production of American land so European immigrants began importing African people while exporting Natives to other parts of the Americas (see Loewen's work for more of this historical record).

• Segregation

  • These banlieues typically are home to French people of foreign descent or foreign immigrants.
  • The civil rights movement gained the public's support, and formal racial discrimination and segregation became illegal in schools, businesses, the military, and other civil and government services.

• 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.

• 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.

• White-Collar Crime

  • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
  • Pharmaceutical companies may make false claims regarding their drugs and factories may illegally dump toxic waste.
  • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
  • For example, pharmaceutical companies may make false claims regarding their drugs and factories may illegally dump toxic waste.

• 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.