The Impact Of Immigrant Integration In The Loca Migration

Immigrating to a new country is difficult. One of the largest groups of immigrants that migrate to the United States are the Hispanics. There are approximately 11.7 million immigrants in the United States as of January 2010, and the amount continues to increase at a rapid rate (Warren, 2013). On average there are approximately 300,000 Hispanic immigrants entering the United States each year (Warren, 2013). Hispanics come from all Latin America including Mexico, the islands of the Caribbean, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, Central and South America (Warren, 2013). The United States has represented liberty and freedom to these individuals, and they often make critical decisions and take chances in the hope of a better future. Individuals often, leave their home country in hopes of a new beginning. The aim of this paper is to provide an extensive research on the current literature on immigration and acculturation among the Hispanic population.

Migration is not a new phenomenon throughout the history of human, but the issue of migration has become more of a problem since the emerging of modern states. The distinction between immigrants and local citizens has become official with the emergence of nation-state authority and the ideas of sovereignty, citizenship and nationality. From the 19th century, the control of passport and visa has made the borders between immigrants and citizens even clearer and more identified. Today, as there are more restrictions on entering a country, states have to deal with regulating policies for immigration to control the influx of people

Many researchers have studied the immigrant assimilation in the recent years. America’s ethnic groups have been expected to come together as one and into the mainstream of american society for decades. Immigrant assimilation is a complex process in which immigrants should not only fully integrate themselves to a new country but also lose aspects perhaps all their heritage too if necessary. Social scientists rely on a primary benchmark to assess immigrant assimilation which is socioeconomic status. A melting pot can be described as a metaphor which indicates a society where many different types of people blend in as one.

In terms of accessibility, elderly Latinos forgo doctor visits even though they are Medicare insured because they cannot cover out-of-pocket costs. Similarly, low finances make impose difficulties in paying for transportation. Like other minority groups, elderly Latinos have to rely solely on Social Security, with only 20% of them having private pension and 27% having income from assets, compared to a higher 43% and 67%, respectively, in non-Latino groups (Wallace). The low finance elderly Latinos experience results from overrepresentation in low-wage jobs that don’t offer retirement benefits (Wallace)..

America is largely made up of immigrants, and thus it is referred to by many as an immigrant’s nation. The rise in immigrants of the first generation and those of second or third generation is changing the demographics of the United States each day. Duncan and Stephen observe that about “a quarter of U.S. residents are either first-generation immigrants or the second-generation children of immigrants” (109). Most of these immigrants move to the country with the aim of achieving the American dream through career success. We would like to believe that the nation follows through with its American ideology that immigrants are welcomed with open arms, and they will have economic opportunities. However, the process of integration and assimilation of these immigrants has for long been a common debate question. The immigration waves into the United States have occurred in several waves over the past years. In the earlier years, most of the immigrants were from Europe and their assimilation was rather smooth. But, the recent wave of immigrants groups prevalently from Asia and Latin America do not face similar acceptance and open arms as their predecessors.

1. What Potential obstacles faced Immigrants, like Corresca, who came to the United States hoping to make a fortune? Were conditions as favorable as they were led to believe before migrating? Potential obstacles faced by Immigrants, like Robert Corresca and his friend , Francisco was the language barrier and difference in religion. Immigrants that came to America were already impoverished people yet they were told by a wealthy man usually positioned in their country that once in America they would be rich.

Migration for Mexican immigrants has not always been easy. Having to face the threat of deportation on a daily basis, the stress of acculturation, and coping with an unfamiliar territory has not intimidated nor defeated this population as they seek a better quality of life. As history would have it, the Mexican population not only makes up a large number of immigrants that live in the United States, but they have also contributed to and molded the culture that is seen in North America today (Zong & Batalova, 2016). A main element that has constantly created a roadblock for Mexican immigrants is their inability to access healthcare which has proven to have many negative outcomes on their livelihood.

Although, the immigration reform needs to be changed, America must not loose track that this nation was once founded by immigrants. Of course, the government must find a way to tighten security at every border, but not all immigrants come to our country to cause problems. This great country is still the land of opportunity, and doors are open too whom ever chooses to walk through them. On top of that, some immigrants are forced to migrate to the U.S. For instance, thousands of Syrians come to the West to get away from the scrutiny that their country is suffering from. They find themselves in a middle of a war, and having to deal with a group of terrorist called "ISIS". This is a terrorist group that has no regard for life, and inflicts terror

The United States is known as the country of opportunity, liberty and equality. People come to the United States to give themselves and their children an opportunity to live a better life than the one they had. When Donald Trump became president, many people became fearful of what would happen to them, especially those of Hispanic descent and people from Muslim countries. President Trump started working on changing the immigration policies. According to the Migration Policy Institute, approximately 13.5% (43.3 million) of the U.S. population are immigrants, documented and undocumented, and those are only the ones that the government knows about. Some are deported to México or to their homeland for other reasons such as murdering, illegal trafficking,

Passing a law for immigration is a difficult thing to do since people in the United States do not agree that congress should give immigrants rights. In the beginning of the film, their are many families who face deportation of their family members. These families are so heartbroken since children have to face either their father or mother getting deported. One child says “Father’s day is coming and my dad is not here so I could not give him a card” (Robertson & Camerini, 2015), many immigrants go through this traumatic event in which families are being seperated. There are services for immigrants and their families that can help them through this distress. According to Helms (2011), NIÑOS is a program to protect

The Central American population in the United States was very small in the 1950s and 1960s. The Central American immigrant population began to increase in the late 1970s when a series of civil wars broke out across the region. In the late 1990s, unauthorized Salvadorians, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans became eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) this gave them provisional protection against deportation with work authorization.

The majority of the current organizational cultural studies have been focused on a traditional population model, where immigrants are the quantitative minority within a substantially larger native population. This creates a problem because there is a knowledge gap about the process of acculturation of immigrants into a country in regions where they are the overwhelming majority of the population. The purpose of this dissertation was to study the process of acculturation of Hispanic immigrants in the Miami-Dade County where they are the majority, into the more general U.S. culture. To do so, this dissertation used a quantitative descriptive research methodology, based on the original Cultural Dimensions theory by Dr. Hofstede, to study the cultural

Immigration policy can be divided into two main aspects: Immigration Control and Immigrant Integration. In immigration control, policies often involve the control of the number of migrants flowing into a nation. This is achieved by implementing border controls, which play an important role in addressing national security and restricting migration flows. In effect, border controls are the main focus of governments when taking into account both security and immigration issues. The second aspect, Immigrant integration, involves the assimilation of immigrants into society. Integration is beneficial for security purposes; for example, the integration of immigrants, primarily Muslim immigrants, has gained momentum after a series of the terror attacks

Nowadays migration is getting to be one of the dominant characteristics of the modern world since at the present moment that movement of people and migration of citizens from one country to another become a norm. Not surprisingly that such unparallel and extremely high level of migration results in substantial demographic, ethnical and socio-cultural changes in many countries of the world.

The importance of this study is to alert both people and government of the causes of Rural-urban migration and its effect on economic growth. The effects of rural-urban migration on both rural and urban areas are alarming, overpopulation on the