Coming from an Asian immigrant family and being one myself‚ I always knew that it couldn’t have been easy for my parents to leave everything behind and start a new life in the states. In 2002‚ my family of seven moved from Vietnam to California. I was only four years old‚ and have no recollection whatsoever on the process of immigrating. My mother was my choice of interviewee for this assignment‚ and after conducting the interview‚ I learned more about my family’s history than I had before. To
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“Our Fear of Immigrants” The Author of this article sets the stage for how children of illegal immigrants can be affected by their parent’s decisions. He peaks your curiosity when he opens up the article with “Rodrigo Guzman’s desk was empty” and as you continue reading‚ you immediately begin to wonder what happened to Rodrigo and his family. As the Author explains what has happened‚ you begin to sense that he has compassion for the family and states many reasons as to why Americans should have
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Irish immigrants were a really really big part of the culture change. The largest wave of immigrants came from Ireland because of the famine in their land. Everyone ate potatoes over there‚ so when the crop got a fungus and they died‚ it was a huge problem for the Irish. A whole lot of people ended up dying from the lack of food. A lot of the Irish that came to America couldn’t do anything. They weren’t talented and they had no skills and no money. Mostly they lived up north in cities. They faced
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Joshua Weg Professor Guevara POLS 197 20 May 2016 Immigrants and Diasporic Communities This year’s election seems to focus on immigration. You here politicians stating their positions and their reasons: the economy‚ terrorism‚ unemployment‚ social welfare‚ crime‚ drugs. My thesis is that today immigrants still face many obstacles to becoming American citizens‚ mainly political and social ones. This is extremely difficult for those of the diasporic communities‚ who wish to maintain strong ties with
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Vietnam Immigrants and Refugees Immigration has been around for years. It is when someone or even a culture comes to live permanently in a foreign country that is of their own. It is important for us now to realize how this was more relevant in earlier years than it is now. Most of it was related to leaving a country due to war whereas now it may be just to live in America or a better place. Vietnamese people settlement in the United States was a direct result from World War II and the failure
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Unlike natural born citizens‚ immigrants practice two forms of citizenship: ascriptive and consensual. As defined by Rogers Smith‚ ascriptive citizenship is inherited at birth while consensual citizenship is a choice (Smith 20). One interpretation of Smith’s definitions of citizenship is that a person can only be defined as one type of citizen. This is a very realistic interpretation‚ as many who immigrate to America continue to practice traditions of their culture. However‚ that is not always the
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In our society today‚ Illegal Immigration has been one of the most debated topics in our country. It is even been debated and a hot topic in our current Presidential Primary Debates. There are a number of illegal residents in this country. You may be wondering‚ how did this happen? Illegal immigration began from a number of residence entering the country without the government permission. However‚ illegal immigration dates back all the way to the 1880s. This was before the government began using
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A Informative Speech An Informative Speech is like teaching. The purpose of an informative speech is to try to teach something to the audience. The success of your speech depends on whether the audience learns what you wanted to teach them. You need to tell the audience why the information is useful and valuable. You need to make sure that the audience understands and remembers the essential information. Some examples of an informative speech: A teacher telling students about earthquakes Someone
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When deciding on what topics to focus on for our project‚ we decided to brainstorm topics there are relevant to our society today and to showcase some aspects that were not as well known. Since illegal immigration is talked about widely‚ we decided to incorporate the topic into our project. But‚ legal immigration is less known and not covered as much in media‚ so contrasting the two topics was a good choice. In addition‚ demography is a key topic in peopling because the study of statistics in the
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the history of the United States. The economic‚ social‚ and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity‚ economic benefits‚ jobs for non-immigrants‚ crime‚ voting behavior… Among all these immigrant groups‚ this paper will focus on three specifically: the Irish immigrants‚ the African-American and the Native-American. These three groups which lived the same experience of being from a different ethnicity‚ who had suffered from xenophobia and negative stereotypes are also
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