Immigrant Workers Center Case Study

A common biased opinion on immigration is that immigrants coming to the United States are taking American jobs. According to the Immigration Policy Center, “research indicates there is little connection between immigrant labor and unemployment rates of native-born workers.” The jobs that immigrants are taking are the low-budget jobs that Americans do not want. They not only get less pay, but also less benefits in comparison to American workers. In fact, according to Forbes, “illegal immigrants actually raise wages for documented/native workers.” America is considered to be more productive when we have more trading partners, Undocumented workers with limited English skills allows more American workers

Slaves were treated terribly, but maybe not as bad as immigrant factory workers. Slaves were from the south and immigrant factory workers were from the north. Slaves were captured from Africa and sold into slavery. In slavery, slave owners forced slaves to work without pay and with the fear of being whipped. Immigrant factory workers were people that came to America for a better life. Slaves were treated better than immigrant factory workers because slaves were given better food, shelter, and clothing than immigrant factory workers.

The Hispanic Family Center have always taken a leadership role in coordinating efforts with other community organizations to facilitate the provision of a full range of services for individuals and families in need. The Hispanic Family Center works with other entities to ensure appropriate access to services while maintaining a particular emphasis on promoting health, self-sufficiency and opportunities for its consumers.

Others say that migrant workers are taking the jobs of national citizens, they are treated the way anyone would be, and they bring down our “standard” living.

The labor movement is a really broad topic and within it, there are many movements that make it up. Let us think of it as the term ice cream, there are many toppings that contribute to creating the biggest ice cream. Immigrant labor is one of the toppings to the labor movement. Immigrant workers have struggled throughout time to get equal pay in jobs, to get better benefits, or to even get jobs because they come from another country that’s not the United States of America. The immigration labor movement has been very powerful throughout the years economically and politically and it has been shown in 20 and 21-century movements and many moments in time. Although it may seem that The Mexican Farm labor movement in 1942 is not connected to The

The Federal Government of Canada should provide not only access to immigration but also make sure to provide new immigrants with opportunities. Firstly, there are still employment issues for Immigrants. According to an interview conducted by CBC, interviewing new immigrants and refugees, Sandy chugh, an immigrant said, "I don't see a lot of growth," when describing his current job. Despite having years of experience in marketing and a bachelor's degree from Ireland, the 32-year-old is working in a warehouse for the retailer Best Buy (Dunn, 2016). This relates to the issue as due to refugees and immigrants not having an absolute experience, yet being highly qualified for jobs, are not given equal opportunities than the natives who were born and educated in the country. Furthermore, to resolve this issue, the Canadian government must

Canada is a country that is known as a "mosaic" of people and cultures, meaning; it opens it arms to immigrant families and gives them the freedom to express their own cultural values, ideas, beliefs and customs. It is this system that welcomes thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with open arms and the idea of a better life. This idea however, is sometimes not always as easy as it is thought to be. Though Canada is an amazing country for immigrants to start a new life and get better education, health care, and job opportunities, immigrant families are met with many challenges before they are able to become accustom to their new life. It is important to understand the true difficulty of the "Immigrant Experience" and the impact it has on families including adults as well as children. If it is easier to understand the difficulties immigrant families go through in search of a better life in Canada there can be more resources made to help them. It is important to take into consideration each individual difficulty that is faced and properly research each factor in order to have a better understanding on how to make the complete economic and societal integration of immigrants happen faster. There is a number of categories that relate to the integration of immigrants into society and a number of steps they must take to be a part of Canadian society. In order to understand these steps they have to be thoroughly researched.

In 2014, over 11.17 million Mexican immigrants came to the United States. (Zong) So many Mexican immigrants came to America in search of work. They worked in order to send money back to their families in Mexico. The workers are treated unfairly, they receive an unequal pay, are forced to work very uncomfortable conditions and live in labor camps.

Our client is Hispanic Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. They are a network of hispanic evangelical pastors, leaders, churches and organizations that have come together solely for the purpose of comprehensive immigration reform. They advocate on behalf of the immigrant community. They benefit and bring legality to the immigrant community. To be eligible currently for DACAv5, applicants had to have arrived in the US before age 16 and have lived there since June 15, 2007. They could not have been older than 30 when the Department of Homeland Security enacted the policy in 2012. Among the accepted applicants, Mexico is by far the biggest country of origin, followed by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.DACA recipients have been able to come out of the shadows and obtain valid driver's licenses, enroll in college and legally secure jobs. They also pay income taxes.

Laborers all over the world spent most of their time out in the sun, picking fruits, vegetables, and cotton. They make sacrifices by being out in severe weather conditions, leave family members for a long time, and make very little pay for working long hours.

Throughout the last decade, Canada has increased the programs available for immigrants and refugees, with the system for both becoming more complex as time goes by. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2002, for example, brought in the Federal Skilled Trades program, the Provincial Nominee program, and the Canadian Experience Class (Ferrer; Picot; Riddell, 2014, p.847,848).

For this oral history course I will explore the topic of immigrant’s laborers and their story as me and two other students of the class, have been selected to be internes for The Immigrant Workers Center and contribute to the creation of a collection of stories from immigrant laborers to add clips to the organisation’s website. I am particularly interested by this project, as I already have some knowledge about immigrants and their struggles due to my parents, yet I seek to learn more and hear new stories, new perspectives and new experiences about immigration. The knowledge about the immigrants’ difficulties and concerns that I have comes from my parents and their friends, who are partly Ukrainian and Congolese. Now I want to hear from

The publication date of May 2015 is very current, and it was published in the Canadian Government’s official website which has authority. Michael Chan is the Immigration and International Trade Minister. The article tells the contents of the meeting of FPT Ministers responsible for immigration, quick facts and quotes. This information is beneficial to my research topic and it is very reliable. This information is relevant to my other sources taking about policy, such as the journal article "Tapping Immigrants' Skills: New Direction for Canadian Immigration Policy in the Knowledge Econ." The Canadian Government’s official website have two contact ways: one is specialized enquiries and another one is general enquiries. In the general enquiries,

Our presentation will inform the class with information and statistics about migrant workers, and the unbalanced relationship between migrant workers from the Global South and the developed countries. Even though everything in the developed countries are better than their home countries, migrant workers do not receive equal rights as the local workers and are often working without job security, health, safety benefits, and are discriminated because of our society’s misconception that most migrant workers are criminals with no legal status. Therefore, It is important for us to emphasize the mass cases of exploitation and abuse of migrant workers. They should not allow their employers to treat them unfairly or rudely. They should always watch

All persons, regardless of their nationality, race, legal or other status, are entitled to fundamental human rights and basic labour protections, including migrant workers and their families. Therefore, the human rights of migrant workers and their families include the universal, indivisible, interconnected and interdependent human rights such as rights to receive equal wages, safe working conditions: migrant's legal status freedom from forced labour protection against arbitrary expulsion return home if the migrant wishes standard of living, families to reunification along with other rights.