Essay about Immigration to the European Union

In the early 1800s the German and Irish were suffering from unemployment, famine, civil unrest and many other hardships. Through these hardships, not having food or jobs they decided to congregate in an area that could provide this for them. From 1820 to 1870 hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants ended up emigrating to the United States in search of jobs and opportunities. Burgeoning companies took in anyone that was looking for a job, the immigrants would end up taking almost every labor enduring job in the country. The immigration of the German and Irish immigrants would end up affecting and changing many American lives.

Research for British Society paper: Ethnicity and Multiculturalism: The costs of immigration far outweigh the benefits.   Discuss

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

In a world that has been constantly changing since the beginning of time, the news it brings is no different. In watching the news over the course of a month it is political upset that over and over again earned its place on the front page. Issues within the Middle East often led as the most breaking news; reports on ISIS, upset in Iraq. In addition to Middle Eastern political issues, immigration issues often found their way into the news. Immigration may become more of a growing issue as globalization increases as well, allowing people the ability to easily migrate. For example, in the article “Britain 'struggling to cope' with immigration, says official report”, it accounts that Britain has seen one million immigrants within the last

“The greatest threat to U.S. homeland security comes from illegals who enter the country through its borders in order to attack…. It is all too easy for illegal immigrants to slip in beneath the radar, Not doing the legalization process and never being detected and deported…. Europe is now paying the price for open borders, past and present non-enforcement of immigration laws, and overly generous asylum policies.

As Britain opted to leave the European Union and head into a negotiation process with its European counterparts, many issues need to be considered. Mainly the UK government focuses on the economic position, in particular the single market. This issue is closely linked to freedom of movement, so it could be the hardest part of the negotiation on which to achieve common ground. A part of the difficulty are the issues relating to the migration of people who are non-EU citizens, while the focus herein is firmly on the future of those defined as asylum seekers. This category has not been shown any attention by UK policy makers, while it appears this group forms a significant proportion of net migration figures. Plus, it could be argued that the main driver of the crisis that has led the UK public to opt to leave the EU is the influx of migrants, as this issue greatly escalated when the European Union was pushed the UK to accept a percentage of people who fled their homes from persecution, in particular Syrian citizens. Thus, the problem is defined by which asylum seekers are part of the issue that has led the UK to leave the European Union, regardless from who is behind this, whether the radical right-wing or individuals. It is too late to seek the root causes of the problem; it is time for solutions and guiding principles. The neo-liberal economic policies stated that social democracy should be our guiding values

Firstly, for the Netherlands, the event of the 9/11 attacks is said to have strengthened pre-conceived negative notions of immigrants and criminals (Leun & Woude, 2011). “Crimmigration” is the term coined for the combination of migration policy and crime restriction, whereby a state of paranoia is becoming increasingly apparent as foreigners are deemed ‘dangerous others’ as well as are associated with crime (Leun & Woude, 2011). West Africans, Polish, Moroccans and Antilleans are discriminated against due to the pressure law enforcers sense from the community (Leun & Woude, 2011). Due to rising crime rates and the era of a more individualistic society, the population’s concerns escalated and the authorities feared a loss of faith in them by

Populist and Extremist political parties are gaining more support and currently they have representatives in parliaments of most of the member states of EU. Part of their strategy is to associate the socio-economic problems with immigrants thus provoking more xenophobia. The so-called "New Racism" combines rhetoric of declining social rights, growing poverty and ideas of liberalism with the hate of multiculturalism and migration. Such rhetoric of "First take care of our people" is spreading and it is supported thanks to the myths described above. We are witnessing growing trends of opinions preaching anti-migration politics that seeping through to the mainstream populist politics that are more and more skeptic towards migration. The rights

immigration happened because individuals were escaping from religious or political persecution. For instance, in the seventeenth century, there was a man known as French Huguenot Protestants who came to UK in order to escape from religious persecution and the Jewish people came in the UK during the Second World War in order for them to sought refuge in Britain. During this same period, there were men and women from commonwealth countries like: Notably India, Pakistan and the Caribbean who came to UK and served in the British armed forces. There were also individuals from Eastern European like: Poland and Czechoslovakia who also came in the UK and served in the British armed forces. In the mid-twentieth century, individuals from former Commonwealth nations were offered what is known as inducements which allows them to emigrate to the UK in order to help find solutions to labour shortage in: public transport, textile industries and health services. Since the European Union has been expanded, the Office of National Statistics Online stated that in 2004, there has been a lot of migration from Eastern Europe. In 2008, there were up to 163,000 people who entered the UK than those who left the UK. (Stretch and Whitehouse, 2010, 2nd

The immigration crisis reaches hundreds of thousands of people which has revealed that the European Union had not given due regard to the unleashed process, and emergency not just close your eyes, but also resorts to close the borders. The first relates to the initial conditions in their Nations of origin, prompting the displacement. The second crisis is reflected in the insecure media using the victims for the transfer.

The U.S is letting too many people immigrate and enter our country. If we keep letting other people enter the country then what will we have left. The more people, the less space. If we had no laws, then how would we be able to control the amount of immigrants that are entering our country. There has been millions of immigrants who have immigrated into our country without permission. There are many pieces of evidence that backs this point up. With some recent terror attacks it goes to show that we really need to limit the immigration. Terrorism is a big factor in why we should limit the immigration for the the United States.

When looking at the individual coverage of the issues and conflicts with the flow of immigration to Europe it is obvious that The Times and The Guardian utilize “false balancing” by stating broad facts and using one direct quote source, while Alex’s article presents subjective opinions designed to instill fear in the reader about Europe’s response to the immigration. The conflicts and issues associated with immigration are glanced over by Alex as he says, “European cities

     “Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations”. These famous words, which were spoken, by the famed author and poet Walt Whitman is a perfect way to describe our ever changing melting pot society, which we call America. Immigration has effected and changed our country in many ways, many of which being economic reasons from 1820-1860. There have been many reasons for people migrating to America. Among the top of these reasons are those of Political Freedom, and Economic opportunities, which include people wanting more money and better jobs. A large amount of immigrants from this time period came by way of Slavery. From the 1820s until 1860 Immigration to America has affected the national

Europe has allowed large numbers of immigrants without paying attention to the issue of the integration of the European body that number, which led to the erosion of social cohesion and undermine national identities, and declining public confidence in politicians. Pro multiculturalism, on the other hand, saying that the decline is due to the growing racism.

Even though most people see the economic problem as the main cause of for UK for rejecting the European Union, others also consider the refugee crisis as a pressing issue. A recent study conducted by the royal institute of international affairs show that “attitudes toward immigration are the strongest predictor of whether somebody will vote to leave the EU. Those who feel that immigration is having negative effects on Britain are 50 per cent likely to vote out of EU. In contrast, those who hold more positive attitudes towards immigration are 11 percent more likely to vote in.”(Matthew, Milazzo, 8)