immigrants vs refugees
Very often, people do not know what a refugee is, and what they have to go through, and once they do get informed about whom they are and their characteristics, they compare them to immigrants. What they don’t know is that these two peoples are very common but only come to a new country because of different reasons. Immigrants, legal ones, come to more developed countries like Canada or the United States mainly for two reasons. One of them is to be reunited with some family members who already live in the designated country, and the other reason is for economic purposes and more opportunities to make a better living for them and their family. A refugee is a person who was forced to leave their mother land because of war, environmental disasters, political persecution and religious or ethnic intolerances. These people are selected through lotteries most often, and come to more peaceful and better prepared countries in order to get back on track. What these two groups have in common is the integration part. Both groups are entering a different country with a different culture, so they are both opened to racial and cultural discrimination. In the case of refugees, in Canada they are offered a green card in order for them to be able to work, and in the case of immigrants, generally they move to different countries for work, therefore a work visa is necessary. Another common aspect of these two groups is the disadvantage of having being educated in another country, what is meant by this is that most North American countries don’t take into consideration the degrees that have not been obtained in their institutions. So a medical doctor in Brazil could not be a medical doctor in Canada, instead they are offered lower paying jobs, such as taxi drivers and factory work.
Often, people before immigrating see the chances of coming to a north American country and they are filled with hope, filled with enthusiasm about their future, they tell their kids that they’ll be
Often, people before immigrating see the chances of coming to a north American country and they are filled with hope, filled with enthusiasm about their future, they tell their kids that they’ll be