High-Skilled Immigrants: A Literature Review

While reading The Immigration Kaleidoscope: Knowing the Immigrant Family Next Door I could not help but think back to when I was working in the restaurant industry. A lot of the kitchen workers had immigrated to America from various countries but mostly Mexico. One of my favorite coworkers Anna, who moved to America from Mexico to send money back to her family, forcing her to leave her young daughter behind.

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are the effects of globalization and immigration on the nation’s economy. Globalization is speeding up and the discussion on whether movements like outsourcing will wear down U.S. competitiveness or provide long-term improvement continues to carry on. Many are misconstruing the positive impact immigrants are having on this country because there is this looming misunderstanding that immigrants are stealing American jobs. But there are countless numbers of skilled immigrants who are in our country legally and are actually creating jobs rather than stealing them. The goal of the data provided in this document is to prove the economic and intellectual contributions of skilled immigrants at a nationwide level. Saxenian provides numerous evidence of the economic impact skilled immigrants are having through data provided by a sample of all engineering and technology companies founded in the last ten

Ever since before the inception of a stricter limitation on granting of U.S. educational visas in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the US immigration policy for foreign graduate students has become the focus of a powerful debate in congress. Those who are worried about the policy change argue that it will damage the nation’s transformational capability. For example, most of the U.S. University representatives are becoming more and more alarmed that these boundaries might cause a

Immigrating to the United States is not an easy task, but if you make it to the United States you will most likely have a better paying job then you did back home. When immigrating to the United States, there are two different ways that it can be done, either coming legally or illegally. No matter how you get to the United States, everyone has one goal in mind, which is getting a job and being successful. Americans assume that immigrants are coming to the United States to bring drugs, commit crimes, and take jobs from “hard working Americans”. Workagrating is essentially the people who come to the United States to work and build a better life for themselves and their families.

My long life educational aspirations are to obtain fist my bachelors degree in communications while minoring in paralegal studies. After obtaining by bachelors degrees in these two fields I would then like to move forward in working toward my Juris Doctor in the field of law, hopefully it would be mostly financially payed for through whatever job I land after graduating with my bachelors degree in communications.T he ultimate goal however is to become attorney,but while living out my career in law I would also like to become a media correspondent for immigration matters. I believe that I could be also the voice for many of the voiceless and inform many immigrants like myself about the workings of the united states government, and the options they have, while still informing them about the legal factors and

In this paper, I decided to analyze the immigration policy. The immigration policies have had a deep history. The policies have been twisted, in the long run, to meet the demands of the time. However, most of the times, the policies have been unfair especially in regard to the immigrants. The overview contains a rich history of the policy progression and advancements in the immigration sector. In this paper, I decided to extrapolate on some few contemporary issues that are as a result of the immigration policies and laws. One of the contentious issues is the Visa policy. This is a system that is widely used by the US government. Though formulated with a good purpose, the formulation did not cater for everything that is associated with immigration. For instance, the immigrants who are on transit for employment are not selected based on the employment demand in the market, hence, they end up being stranded and thus are forced to accept low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. The solution to this is also discussed in the paper. I have also discussed on the open door policy and its implications which include overpopulation. Overpopulation on its part has directly affected both the immigrants and natives with many adverse effects. I was able to do research, and I consequently came up with a set of alternative methods that could be of help. However, I have also discussed

The United States and Canada immigration system is both complex and kind of similar to one another. The United States is a huge immigration destination for a lot of legal and illegal immigrants. The US has been a huge immigration location for a large amount of time now. Canada is not far behind the United States when it comes down to immigration although the US has more. The US legal immigrants have a green card to be a United States citizen and have the rights as a United States citizen. In the United States immigrants help benefit major business by the great labor they put in. The United States immigrants are very diverse with the Asians being the most. There is a lot of illegal immigrants as well as legal and that is why some of the US citizen say “the broken border”.

A college degree is very crucial to the development of the national skills to match the market. However, the high cost of attaining the degree is driving many poor students from taking courses in universities. The possibility of an international student accessing equal education is the United States comes with a very high cost. For example, while a California community college student pays $46 per unit, an international student pays $250 per unit, which is very expensive and

Life, people say, is made up of many sacrifices. For many second generation Americans, this sacrifice comes in the form of cultural and identity abandonment. Rather than integrating themselves into the American culture, many second generation immigrants feel the need to assimilate and adopt another culture entirely. Immigrants with non-European or typical “American” names often create an English name that is easier to pronounce. When it comes to job applications, second generation immigrants also downplay their roles or membership in culture clubs. This assimilation is often linked to higher socioeconomic levels, as studies from two Harvard professors have shown that people with whiter, American names are more likely to get job interviews or

Inspired by her culturally diverse life in Houston, award winning journalist and author Claudia Kolker investigates the attitudes and traditions towards education, hard work and health that have been imported into the United States by immigrants from different nations. She addresses the fact that natives to the United States have so much to learn from foreigners and that they should not be viewed form only an outsider point of view but should instead be embraced for the diversity they introduce to America. She argues that it is meaningless to fuss over their exploding population when they are in essence present legally

The discourse on skilled immigration revolves around the controversial H-1B worker visas, the largest visa program for temporary, skilled immigration to the United States, and the level of the annual cap of such visas. Proponents pushing to raise the annual visa cap, argue that there exists a shortage of domestic labor supply in certain industries. Moreover, these workers enable firms to compete globally by raising their competitiveness, growth, and innovation. Critics of skilled immigration, however, argue that skilled immigrants are not necessarily skilled, and that the principle use of the H-1B visas is for firms to minimize their labor costs, which has the effect of undercutting native wages, and displacing native workers.

With many in government and communities believing that education is the key to create a strong and independent country, public schools were formed in the early years of the United States to provide a basic education for citizens (Mondale & Patton, 2001). Over the years it has been reformed to fill the needs of a growing nation. However, we are now facing a need to not only satisfy the needs of a national economy, but a world economy. Unable to fill positions that demand a high education, many American industries have to branch out to other countries in search for employees (Guggenheim, 2010). Unless America is able to raise the education standards of students, this trend of companies hiring from outside the United States will continue and more Americans will struggle to find their place in society.

The United States has always been a main attraction for international students to gain intellectual knowledge, technical skills, cross-cultural experience, and better opportunities for professional development (Han, Han, Luo, Jacobs, & Jean-Baptiste, 2013; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). According to the Institute of International Education (2017), in the academic year of 2015/2016, there was an increase of 7% in the number of international student pursuing higher education in the United States over the previous year with total international students of 1,043,839 and 5.2% representing the total of U.S College enrollment. International students make higher education one of the largest service sector exports in the United States (Rice, Choi, Zhang, Morero, & Anderson, 2012; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). They are regarded as a vital financial commodity for countries

The social and economic impacts of immigration have engendered immense policy debate among politicians, business owners, and academicians in the United States as well as other developed countries. There are many studies on the effects of unskilled immigrants, and some studies have analyze the effects of skilled immigrants, including international students on labor market outcomes \citep{borjas1, borjas2,peri,moser}, and research production in universities and patenting in business organizations \citep{stuen, chellaraj}. However, only few studies have examined the impacts of international students on the graduate enrollment of native students. Of the few ones, \cite{borjas3}, using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS),