How Has Immigration Changed The United States

The United States is a country that was built on immigration. The first settlers, Native Americans, represent less than 2% of the total population; the remaining 98% of the population are immigrants or decedents of immigrants. Today, the US still has the highest immigration rate in the world with 757,434 naturalizations in the 2012 fiscal year only (US Naturalizations 2012, Department of Homeland security). People try to immigrate to the United States for many reasons. Some people immigrate because they have been granted a refugee status or asylum and other people immigrate to fulfill their dreams. Immigration has an effect on the American society and economy. The US cannot survive without immigrants.

Immigration has made the U.S.A poplar in many ways. For example, Immigration made people to from all race to come together and be in one place. It also made people to understand each other's in different ways. Finally, it brings humans closer together and to learn about each other's cultures. And it's also fun and enjoyable to see people with different color/race to be together.

During the late 1800s, inhabitants from all parts of the world made the decision to leave their jobs and homes to immigrate to the United States. They fled rising taxes, famine, crop failure, land and job shortages, to come to the United States. Perceived to be one of the greater countries for economic opportunity, many sought freedom from religious and political persecution. Around twelve million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. Before the Civil War, the majority of immigrants were from Germany, Ireland, and England. There would be a drastic change in the next three decades. After the Civil War, immigrants

The United States has transformed through several movements and Immigration has helped shaped how workers, farmers, and the progressives lived. Each group believed they had changed how ideas and movements reformed the country. Immigration is what caused history to change and has allowed the American populations become what it is today. Between 1877- 1939, Not only did immigrants go to America for a better life but Americans within the states would also move to different locations for the same reasons. The workers, farmers and the progressives were groups made up of immigrants.

America is filled with diverse people, citizens and immigrants. It’s a country that has welcomed many cultures, languages, and people from different parts of the world. Immigrants are the reasons why America is changing into a colorful country and it wouldn’t be known for it’s importance known today. Significant changes that occur when immigrants come to America are new cultures, changes in the economy, and changes towards visas and green cards. Immigrants changed America by bringing in new cultures.

Immigration into the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s changed America in many ways including the economy, politics and the social norms . With the immigration of foreigners to America came new workers and materials which bettered the economy. However, with the new workers also came the exploitation of immigrants as well as political corruption. In terms of the social influence of the immigrants there were new diseases and overcrowded cities along with a more diverse culture.

This is how immigration has changed from the 1800s and now. Many people moved to canada and north america in the early 1800s. Also during the slavery time africans and black people immigrated to canada to live a free life. Now they get money to help them start a new lifestyle and so they don't end up being homeless. They also immigrate so they can get better jobs and more money to provide for their kids and family so they DON'T go into debt or be poor. Also don't have enough money to get food for everyone so they have to starve. Some people do still have to live on the ground and be homeless because they immigrated illegally or they didn't let the government know that they were moving to canada. In ww1 and ww2 people immigrated to canada so

Throughout history, we have known the people known as “Americans,” to have come from England, Ireland, Germany, and China. They risked everything immigrating to America as they saw the land as an opportunity and chance to have a fresh start of life. Some even risked migrating west across America that brought them farther away from civilization  and sanity. The migration and immigration of people has contributed to the American identity and changed American history in three distinct periods. These periods include the pre-civil war period, Civil War/ Industrialization era, and the 20th century.

Immigration has influenced many changes in America. It has changed America’s way of life and beliefs. Immigrants wanted to the change way of life that was their goal. Immigrants made an impact immediately and changed or added cultures,religions and even the education the people were receiving. Natives wanted to start to have a complex city, because of this people started to assassinate natives for not following instructions and doing things their ways.

Immigration has changed a lot throughout the years in American history, not only in laws about immigration, but about places where immigrants came from, and the different races that immigrated. These factors have changed throughout history by shaping the social and economic aspects of the United States. Immigration has changed for the better and for the worse. It has gone to as far as making camps for Japanese Americans and deporting them and taking their belongings, to as low as giving immigrants papers and letting them stay.

As our economy continues to grow, as does the world that we live in. With this more and more people are continuing to travel and immigrate across borders. With over 175 million people accounting for 3% of the world’s population (Kerr, Kerr 2011) living permanently overseas, the landscape of global business and economics is continuing to grow. This shift in demographic can leads to many changes and adjustments for countries, some of which can reap benefits others may cause financial harm. Major impacts of immigration can be observed in several forms of a countries economic system such as employment opportunities for both immigrated workers as well as current citizens along with unemployment rates, wages, profit margins, the ability of local and international business’ to grow and the overall GDP of the specific country. For this paper specifically the developed country that will be analysed will be Australia. Considered to be one of the worlds “major immigration nations” (together with New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America) (Phillips, Simon-Davies 2016) Australia is fast becoming a go-to country for those looking for a fresh start. Entering through either the “Migration Program” or “Humanitarian Program” depending on the specific level of expertise Australia is quick to start the process of entering these immigrants to the workforce. With a high percentage of Australians that have been born overseas (7.2 million) Australia needs to prepare and plan

Since its founding, the United States has attracted immigrants from all over the world and consists of a variety of different cultures. Immigration has had an enormous impact on American society and economy and shaped the country remarkably.

U.S. as an immigration country, has a long history of immigration. It is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change of the United States. People came here because of varies reason, the major reason among them are fleeing crop failure, land and job shortage, rising taxes, and famine. Nearly 12 million people immigrate to the United States between 1870 and 1900, making it the world largest immigrate country.

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In the past few years, a lot has been spoken and researched about immigration. The goods are moving in out of the countries more freely as globalization has taken its stand. Not only goods, but people also move about more freely than before.