Congolese/Zairean Migration

Upon arrival in the United States, immigrants face many obstacles. While also facing the obstacle of being uneducated in a foreign land, immigrants are constant subjects of the corrupt actions of predatory people, and constant subjects of discrimination, ultimately preventing them from achieving their goal of success within a new country. To solve these issues, immigrants are forced to learn a new language and culture while accepting the fate of their living conditions and working harder to prove themselves in their new nation.

abroad where the work is available and the cost of living isn't rising.Hence, they can improve their social situation. Dummet,P.(2013)admitted that immigrants went in to building a new life and how their descendants now feel a duty to honour their efforts by working hard too .He also give two Queens residents’ stories about that ;Richard&Tanja.Some families leave their countries to access to good education. In the last few years there have been a number of studies examining the adaptation of immigrant children in schools. Suárez-Orozco characterizes their findings by saying that immigrant children today fit pattern of school adaptation.Someimmigrant children do quite well in school, surpassing U.S.-born children in grades,standardized test scores, and attitudes toward education.Other immigrant children tend to overlap with U.S.-born children, and yet others tend to achieve below their U.S.-born peers.

Congo is located on the equator in West-Central Africa. Congo neighbors the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Central Africa, Gabon, the Angola exclave of Cabinda, and Cameroon. It is mostly tropical rain forests, and is almost three times the size of Pennsylvania. Kongo, Tio and the Loango are the three kingdoms that dominated the Congo. The slave trade had a tremendous impact on the Congo in 1482, after the discovery of the Congo River by the Portuguese. Congo became the French Congo after a treaty was signed by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the ruler of the Bateke people in 1880. This established the Congo under French control. Its name changed again in 1905 to Middle Congo, and made up the French Equatorial

As someone who migrated to the U.S to advance her education and having to leave loved ones behind, I understand some of the challenges new immigrants’ experience in assimilating into a foreign country. My migration to the U.S. from Nigeria in April of 2002 was a very difficult experience because I was no longer in the care and comfort of the people I had grown up with, particularly my mother. The frequent worry of my family’s well-being still goes through my mind each time I read articles online of conflicts occurring in my homeland. This concern makes me more determined to press on in my academics despite the challenges because I want to be able to someday bring my mother to the U.S. I also want to provide better living conditions for the

26). With this being such a large number, the idea of migration for economic support for their kin is quite common in Mexican society for several decades now. Migration can occur locally, within the country, or transnationally. Men, women, children and whole families migrate depending on the type of work and the demand for laborers. The Mexican household can have great variability due to migration since the complete nuclear household could have members missing at any given time depending on work. Several factors play a key role when determining whether one should migrate and how the household will change due to this. Some of these factors include educational levels and gender roles and how they will affect the lives of their offspring. These factors also have an effect on the future educational aspirations of the child by themselves and their

The year is 1960, at first the Congo was a colony, but on June 30th, 1960 Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave independence to the Congo freeing its citizens. Only to be kicked out of office just a few weeks after their independence. Six months later Lumumba to be assassinated. When Lumumba came into office, it was a time where the Anti-colonial movement reached its peak. “It is a staggering example of what the Western ruling classes are capable of when their vital interests are threatened. Assassination then becomes a useful measure, a possible solution.” (Kanza XXV)

It is within the last twenty to thirty years that most of my family emigrated to the United States of America from the famous island known as Jamaica. Many immigrants came to the United States of America for a “better quality of living”, but in reality it isn’t as easy as it sounds. One does not simply show up in a foreign country and have everything they desire. A lot of my family members worked early mornings and late nights just to have the proper funds to provide for themselves. In a lot of Caribbean families, where there are multiple children, the parents immigrate to a new place and leave their children behind in their original country. This enables the parents to establish a home in their new country and acquire a good amount of

The dictionary defines immigration as coming to a foreign country and making it a permanent home. In an article on the Migration Information Source website, Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova report about thirteen percent of the U.S population consists of immigrants, (Zong, Batalova). Some U.S. citizens do not think America should allow immigrants to cross the border. Probably because U.S. citizens now, aren 't being treated how we should and now they can just cross the border and get privileges that American citizens can 't receive. Looking at the bigger picture, there is no definite way to prevent them from crossing the U.S border. Usually immigrants cross the border in hopes to improve their lives and their family 's lives. Do they affect our society and costs, such as economic costs? Of course they do, but the percentage of immigrants in the United States will only keep rising. If you think about it, immigrants can be a good thing. Those that cross the border look for the benefits of the American economy such as job opportunities, education, and even freedom. As the United States assists them, we profit from them as well. For example, cultural diversity, a variety of cultures and religions, or cultural diversity.

During the 1930s, Congo was controlled by the Belgians and King Leopold and was considered a Free State. The Belgians used indirect rule in Congo where Congolese groups could govern their own cities while being looked over by Belgium. According to “The Congolese and Self-Determination”, from April 30, 1885 to April 1958 when the article was written, the Congo Free State experienced paternalism within their political activity (p105). Throughout the article, the author uses evidence to write about the factors that influenced the people of the Congo to express their desire for emancipation. Therefore, the article “The Congolese and Self-Determination” uses an objective style of writing to portray the attmept of the Congolese to become

Although Belgium’s methods in the Congo may be wrong we would do well to avoid their affairs considering how the Congo would almost certainly fall into control of France should Belgium withdraw from Africa. We lack a plan of action aside from force, and our less than bloodless past in colonization would draw disdain from honourable countries who would paint us hypocrites. Even now as more evidence of Leopold's atrocities filter into Britain there is always the fear that he should begin making deals with our enemy, France, to secure his place and his dictatorship in the Congo. It was stated by the British Foreign Office in the year 1900 that Britain knew Belgium was not upholding their obligations outlined in the Berlin Act; however, there is

In 1908, Leopold II, King of the Belgians handed over the Free State of Congo, acquired in 1889, to Belgium. In 1960, the Congo became an independent Republic. Fifty-five years after the independence of the Congo, the traces of its colonisation can still be found everywhere in Belgium; from the imposing monuments and buildings scattered around the country built with the money Leopold gained from the extraction of the Congo’s natural resources, to the African artefacts and collection of butterflies found in many ex-colonisers’ houses, to this expression of the common language: “Tout ça ne nous rendra pas le Congo”. Although this Congolese past is clearly ‘physically’ present in Belgium, it is interesting to see how it is remembered and understood

The topic of my dissertation is: The Effects of Mobility on Congolese-Zarian Students’ Academic Achievement.

The post-colonial condition of Africa has been unstable at best and bloody at worst. Generally, these nations have been characterized by political militarism or dictatorship as well as economic inequality. Perhaps the nation that best represents these traits is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Once the Congo was released from Belgian control in 1960, it was immediately overcome by political factions resulting in multiple provinces attempting to secede. Joseph Mobutu led the military to unite the country again, and set himself up as the dictator of the Congo. Though the Congo contains plenty of natural resources to build an economy on, its failure to maintain a stable government has caused massive inequalities of wealth favoring the ruling

Migrating to a new country can be a very difficult transition for a child. Two months before my seventh birthday my brother and I, traveled from Jamaica to Miami. Prior to this time we live with our mother, however, she made the difficult decision to send her children to live with our dad and grandmother. Years after she explain that she made this decision to give my brother and me the opportunity to get a better education and ultimately a better life. Although it was a difficult decision, fast forwarding thirty years her dreams for me has definitely been fulfilled.

Many people migrate because of a necessity “produced and driven by structural forces, such as international institutions, interventions, inequality, and global trade. They set into motion flows of vulnerable people with no option other than to leave their communities in search for a new livelihood” (Sladkova). It is no real mystery why America is the popular place in which to immigrate. Not only does the country boast its accessibility, but many people also come to the United States rather than other places simply because it is more convenient for them. In the case of Hondurans, the US is the likely choice due to the “strong historical, political, military, and economic ties of the two countries and the growing