Group Immigration Project

Do you know that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States was estimated at 11.5 million in 2011 and now

It was clear that our agreed upon norms placed a significant level of responsibility on the group leader. In this instance, Kristian served the role well. Due to the variance in time zones the use of Google Docs as a collaborative effort, was helpful to ensuring that each member was able to participate effectively. One member of our group, had difficulty accessing the internet on a regular basis and email the group portions of the assignment for the leader to incorporate into the draft. While this allowed the individual to contribute, it placed an additional burden on the leader to incorporate the suggestions into the final draft of the assignment. Additionally, during one assignment, the leader formatted the document early in the day and email it out prior to allowing everyone to contribute. This created confusion regarding whether the Google Doc or the emailed draft was the current working copy. Through email communication, this small obstacle was overcome and the group was successful over

*Select 2 different ethnic groups from the drop-down menu that says “All Countries”. What are the major trends in their immigration patterns over the past decades?

For immigrant families moving to America presents great opportunities for a better life, but there are various challenges these families face. There are resources put in to place to assist immigrant families finically, career wise, and to further their education. During the following assignment, I will create a flier that three community resources that aid in English acquisition and/or serve immigrant families in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and surrounding areas. The will provide significant information about the organizations such as contact information, information on what the company offers, and benefits for the

This was an issue because some of the group members did not live on campus and could not meet up as easily as others. Our group tried to meet up around once a week so that we did not fall behind on anything or leave something till the end. Also, the times that some members were able to meet, others had class. Some group members also had other assignments that required a significant amount of their time. This hindered their ability to meet up during the free time that they had. The confusion caused a lot of excess work in having to plan around peoples schedules in order to find an ideal time for all group members. We were able to overcome this by meeting on more than one occasion instead of all at once. This allowed for each group member to figure out the next step with another group member. We also created a Facebook group chat to be able to communicate with each other. We used this platform to message about any questions or to discuss anything and to plan meet up times. As it was discussed during lecture, this issue is a result from the barriers of communication. When the assignment was introduced, we were forced to answer the question of what barriers of communication we might see. We thought that for sure we would encounter physical barriers. The major physical barrier we encountered was people living off campus and having trouble meeting up. When looking at how our group worked with each other, what must be considered is our utilization of the four functions of management. These four functions are: planning, organizing, controlling, and leading. When our group first met up, we realized that in order to be successful in this assignment we would need to effectively follow these four functions. Another barrier of communication that was encountered was language barrier. One of my group members was still learning

The fair treatment of immigrant families, and causes regardless on one’s immigration status is at the core of the work being done by United We Dream (UWD) to champion human rights. The group has also set out on a mission to address inequalities and obstacles that constantly get on the way of immigrant youths by ensuring justice. With over 10,000 immigrant youths, 55 affiliate organizations operating in over 20 states, the immigration rights group boasts being the largest immigrant youth led organization in the US. UWD was established in 2008 by an initial small group of 7 immigrant youth organizations. Some of the key issues facing the undocumented community include family separation and deportation. To counter these challenges,

According to research cited by Karoly & Gonzalez, (2011), among immigrant children under age eighteen, 28% are in linguistically isolated families (minimal to no English speakers), 26% families with no high school diploma and 22 % below the poverty line families. This they posited causes a problem for immigrant children, in

I propose a program that will help immigrants who want to live in the United States learn the English language to improve their communication and, help third-year U.S. college students who want to become teachers gain practice. First, immigrants would learn to communicate while helping our future teachers gain hands-on training in a classroom setting. Lastly, teaching immigrants to speak English will help cross cultural boundaries and, possibly change our views about immigrants as they will be able to connect and tell their stories. Helping immigrants while helping U.S. citizens in the process is the best way to work together on some immigration issues and views.

The United States is continuing to grow in the number of families that are immigrating to our country. According to Washington State Institute for Public Policy (2007), “As of 2000, there were approximately 107,000 immigrant elementary students and 100,000 middle and high school students in Washington State, based on U.S. Census data.” Children from these families enter our educational system knowing very little English and they are considered to be an English Language Learner (ELL) defined by “those whose primary language is a language other than English and who have English language skill deficiencies that impair their learning in regular classrooms” (Malagon, McCold, Hernandez, 2011, p. IV). While parents truly believe their children will receive a better education in the United States as oppose to the country they came from, English Language Learner students face a number of everyday challenges while at school. These challenges go beyond learning the English language; they include the struggles that are faced not only academically, but socially as well. English Language Learner students face these day-to-day problems due to their inability to express their ideas and thoughts, along with not being able to communicate substantially and identify with the people in their community.

The project members were quickly able to establish group communication means using a messenger program, and the group resources provided by Blackboard, allowing for instant recognition of messages and/or questions as well as an increasing interaction among the members. The data collected and evaluated by one member could easily be shared, and built upon by the other members. A common goal was shared among the members, and every member contributed greatly to the

After the topic was decided upon, the next step was to review the guidelines for the group project. We understood that an outline needed to be created before anything else could be started. Therefore, as a group we decided that each member for design an outline and share it with each other. This

The United States is facing a challenge in serving immigrant youth. Today’s immigrants arrive from widely diverse countries, and are increasingly likely to resettle in the states and in rural communities, areas that often have the least experience and infrastructure to help students learn English and adapt to their new schools and neighborhoods. With immigration levels sustained at well over one million arrivals per year, immigrant students are entering public schools in record numbers. This has a big deal for program development, education, and funding.

Immigrant children are faced with myriad problems stemming from cultural, social, and economic reasons, as well acculturation and adaption. Irrespective of many programs that are currently offered to assist in language development of immigrant children, overall, the majority of immigrant children struggles financially and experience social trauma associated with geographic relocation and cultural sock.

We had a group chat with all the members participating in our group and it helped communicate and send messages we needed to say. We remind each other about what needs to be done or what we should complete during a span of days, so we could be on track of the deadline. My group worked together to finish the powerpoint because it was considered one of our main priorities. Understanding the importance of our grade made us work towards our goal and made it easy to move towards the next step in our process. The communication throughout the process made it easy to contact our members if we had questions or trouble along the way. We didn’t encounter any problem, but the group chat was held for decision-making or scheduling a meeting. It benefited to take the next step in our

Strengths for our team include the fact that our group consists of upper level, business majors who have studied various aspects of business theory and knowledge. This knowledge will be used to the best of the group’s ability to develop and present a well-rounded final project. One notable weakness for our group is that we are having to communicate over a distance rather than work together in a single setting. This provides some obstacles as e-mail communication is often tedious when it comes to working together in a group. However, opportunity wise, our group consists of different minded members who can provide various and diverse insights for our group project. As a group our biggest threat is mostly time and communication. Because this class ranges over a few short weeks it is imperative that our group is mindful of deadlines as well as maintaining clear communication between all members.