Immigration Advantages And Disadvantages

The topic of immigrants has been debated for centuries, and has been an even larger topic for discussion since the attack on the two towers in 2001. Many people contemplate whether immigrants are a reason to be scared, not; and if so, then why? If one finds themselves asking this conflicting question, Jeremy Adam Smith’s article, Our Fear of Immigrants, provides an answer. Relying on research from psychologists and sociologists, Smith gives sufficient evidence for why immigrants bring such intense feelings of both hatred and compassion, and recommends a way to increase empathy toward them.

Jeremy Adam Smith’s “Our Fear of Immigrants” proposes a sympathetic outlook towards immigrants. Smith wants the disgust and loathe of citizens to stop, and instead for them to start retaining empathy for newcomers. While reading the article, there is a sense of fear that people hold for immigrants. Many of these fears are mainly blamed on many motives such as psychological reasoning, genetic cognitive, and social status. Although Smith provides plenty logic behind the behavior of citizens, there should also be the point of view behind the immigrants themselves.

Born out of patriotism, xenophobia and a desire to “mark the moral boundaries of society” (Critcher, 2003, p.5), uncertainty over immigrants “resonates with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia’s national identity and way of life” (Martin, 2015, p.1). Following the ‘Signification Spiral’ model (Poynting & Morgan, 2007, pp.3-4), the issue of refugees intensified after September 11 2001, whereby inextricable links were produced between terrorism and Muslim boat people, eventually leading to the identification of refugees as fearful invaders. The Federal Elections that year took the emphasis away from domestic topics, and stressed national security and border protection (Mares, 2002, p.1); forming a moral panic that has remained up to the present day. Further, these groups as an entirety were associated with other problems occurring at the same time – embodying the concept of ‘convergence’ by linking refugees to increased violence, terrorism, wastage of the taxpayer’s money on ‘foreigners’ and the straining of resources and

Gordon uses expert opinion, interviewing one of Australia’s most respected psychiatrists, Harry Minas. His debate emphasises Australia’s incapability to deal with the asylum seeker crisis as best as it can, stating “In 2011, we still have mandatory detention”. The expert opinion further pursuay the reader to look at the asylum seeker debate through the eyes of the refugees themselves, to see the human face.

In 2010, when Ahmad wrote his article, immigration was on the rise in the UK. Many immigrants were being accepted into the country which created a record high. Although this situation may seem to be a good thing, it can be deceiving. Due to the increase in immigration, the government had pledged to cut migration by an exponential amount. “The British, who ruled my country for decades and taught me the English that I speak, have always had the power to keep me out of their country” (Ahmad 38). At this

Innes (2010) argues that the negative discourse of asylum seekers as a threat to British society is portrayed in government literature

Immigration started with Spanish settlers in the 1500’s and eventually moved on to French and English settlers in the 1600’s and so on and so forth. Nearly 1 million immigrants arrive in the United States annually. Though you may see this is as a bad thing, there are actually so many pros to immigration. One of the main pros, though, is that immigrants are taxpayers, consumers, and job creators. The United States benefits from these things in multiple ways such as getting new homes and stores.

Immigration is a hot button topic today and so many people have different opinions about it, but who oversees its laws? Our government is split into three main branches, Legislative, Executive and Judicial. Every branch contributes in a different way to have a law in action. The Legislative branch, which contributes to the first step of making any law, consists of the house of representatives and the senate, which together form the United States Congress which have the supreme authority to enact legislation, the privilege to confirm or reject many presidential appointments, and massive investigative powers (“The Legislative Branch”, 2017). The Executive branch, contributes to enforcing the laws and it mainly involves the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet (“The Executive Branch”, 2017). The Judicial branch, puts the final touches on the law and polishes it. It consists of the United States Supreme Court and lower federal courts. The Supreme Court's primary function is to hear cases that challenge the constitutionality of legislation or require interpretation of that legislation ("The Judicial Branch", 2017). Immigration laws are made within the Legislative branch, carried out by the Executive branch, and evaluated by the Judicial

“I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things. First, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them” an old Italian immigrant once said. Immigrants faced many obstacles coming to America such as finding work, finding a place to live, acclimating to their new surroundings and learning to communicate. When immigrants came to America, they expected their life to become better and have an easier life.

1 million immigrants move to America each year due to it being an exceptional nation. We are an exceptional nation because we have more rights than any other country, we are more equal than most, and we also have more of a choice in our government than the rest of the world. America is the one country everybody is fighting to get into due to its amount of freedom.

Immigration has been a hot button topic for years, however just recently it has become one of the main sources of discussion for GOP debates and other less formal conversations and interviews. Suggestions on how to deal with it range from mass deportation to a big wall to stopping immigration completely. Yet with all this talk about how it is ‘destroying’ our country and what to do about it, not many people are really talking about about the immigrants themselves. When dealing with issues that pertain humans, no one can take a sociopathic side. This idea is brought up in both the video “Fixing the System” and the poem “Immigrants in Our Own Land”. Both sources bring up the argument that immigrants, including the ones who are here illegally,

“Gentrification” captures class disparities and injustices created by capitalist urban land markets and policies. This in turn can cause an increasing house expense encumbrance for low-income and working-class households, and the associated personal catastrophes of displacement, removal, and homelessness, are symptoms of a set of institutional arrangements (private property rights and a free market) that support the creation of urban environments to serve the needs of capital accumulation at the expense of the social needs of home, community, family. Displacement from home and neighbourhood can be a shattering experience. At worst it leads to homelessness, at best it impairs a sense of community. Public policy should, by general agreement,

Words used everyday by our media and our highest politicians. We hear it uttered with condescension and tainted by fear.[b] But essentially ‘asylum seekers, refugees, boat people’ is what will determine our country's federal election. But many people in this room may not actually know what these 3 phrases really mean[c]. Are these people that seeking a better life, trying to be free and do what’s best for their families. Similarly maybe even searching for health care and resources, perhaps even fleeing from persecution or something else that is out of their control.

The media coverage in the United Kingdom especially in the present climate can be described as anti migrant and asylum seekers. There is a suggested sense of being under siege with threats of invasion of being overwhelmed via Calais. With Headlines such as ` Migrants 'threaten EU standards' ` (BBC News, 2015), and reports from the government does little to show a different image as the recent comment from `British Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his policy of restricting immigration, arguing that illegal migrants are trying to "break into" the country`. Regardless of the fact that there are little other means in which they can gain asylum but to enter illegally. In considering this I am not suggesting that one should have no systems in place to control and monitor immigration but feel that this negativity does not address that people have the right to claim asylum nor does it show positive images or outcomes of those that have made lives

Immigration is the movement through which an individual permanently moves from their place of residence from one country to another. Immigration is a topic which divides political parties and general debate. Whilst some people see the positives of immigration, such as the filling of skill gaps in low and highly skilled jobs, others see the negatives of immigration, such as the strain on services such as the NHS, schools and housing.