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Immigrant Labor Contributions, 2004.
Cites evidence and statistics that negate the argument that foreign-born workers take jobs from American citizens.
1,806 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper provides anecdotal and statistical evidence to counter the argument that foreign workers that move into metropolitan areas in the U.S. are supplanting native-born workers and are "stealing?" wages the native-born workers might otherwise enjoy. The paper also discusses some of the negative stereotypes regarding immigrant workers that persist and cites several studies that claim that the immigrant workers actually have a positive effect on the U.S. economy.
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"Some figures regarding the effect of immigration on cities are relatively easy to obtain; they were developed by the United States Census Bureau, most recently in the year 2000. Other figures are much more difficult, although anecdotal evidence abounds. In Race and Ethnicity in the United States, author Richard T. Schaefer shows that although immigration benefits the United States in many ways, there are still negative stereotypes. These stereotypes account for unequal, and often disturbing treatment, despite the contributions."
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Impact of Immigration on Labor Markets, 2005.
An examination of the impact of immigration on labor markets, and the employment of low-skilled immigrant workers.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses the impact of increased immigration on labor markets. It primarily focuses on the literature review of five sources that pertain to how immigration has negatively affected the native labor force. Some experts argue that the problem lies with the employer, as organizations that employ low-skilled workers may hire immigrants to save on labor costs.
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"Trade agreements between countries and regions (i.e. NAFTA and CAFTA) have resulted in increased immigration to North America. The North American low-skilled labour force is suffering as the competition in this market is rapidly increasing as a result of increased immigration. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze whether increased immigration negatively affects native labour markets."
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Immigrants in the Labor Force, 2007.
An analysis of the positive and negative impact of immigration on the United States.
1,896 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 42.95
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This paper looks at the impact of immigrants upon the United States' domestic economy in terms of the contributions they make and the burdens they compel other Americans to shoulder. At the same time, the paper offers some recommendations and, ultimately, solutions which offer a means by which America can successfully marry immigration inflows with its economic needs as well as with the needs of its native-born population. The paper includes a brief annotated bibliography.
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"To close briefly, the preceding paper has looked at immigration in the United States and its impact upon the American economy. Simply put, while the typical immigrant brings many things to America, there is mounting evidence that he or she creates complications for the native-born. At the same time, fears about illegal immigration and what it means for America abounds and there is no reason that this concern will abate any time soon. Ultimately, the best things America can do appear to be the following: tighten border security, increase the educational and professional requirements for immigrants; and put money into punishing those who profit from illegal immigration. If this is done, then there is hope for the future."
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Impact of Immigration on Labor, 2003.
Focuses on employment in the U.S.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 20 sources, £ 61.95
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Reviews studies on the issue. Discusses positive and negative effects on the U.S. economy and on women and minorities of immigration, transnational migration, and the economic, political, and social effects. Describes the U.S. as a destination country.
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"The issue examined in this research is the impact of immigration on domestic labor markets in the United States. Specific interests of this research are the impacts of immigration on the employment opportunities for women and minorities."
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Labor Choices of Immigrant Women, 2007.
This paper explores women immigrants and labor choices in the USA and Sweden.
1,769 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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The paper discusses the theory of Naila Kabeer who researched Bangladeshi women home workers and maintained that these women did not exercise their own preference in their work choice. Kabeer explains that they were influenced by male domination, which in turn was impacted by societal discrimination. The paper shows that the patterns of employment and labor of immigrant women in the USA and in Sweden lend corroboration to this theory. The paper demonstrates how immigrant women face multiple levels of discrimination, most notably sexist and racist prejudice.
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"As noted above, Kabeer has pointed out that most Bangladeshi woman in London work in the clothing industry from home, while their husbands mainly work in the clothing industry in sweatshops and factories. Kabeer researched the reason for this, and found that the Bangladeshi women's "choice" to work at home is only partly their own preference, and that it is greatly influenced by male domination and other factors. She situates this domination within the context of the racist situation in which the entire family lives."
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Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Fears, 2004.
This paper looks at the role of immigration and anti-immigrant fears in America.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, £ 27.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the role of immigration and anti-immigrant fears in American politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The writer looks at the volume and character of immigration and its economic impact. The writer discusses big city machines, Red scare and Palmer raids. Further, the writer examines how immigration became a major factor in American national politics.
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"Immigration developed as a major factor in American politics during the late 19th century, due to the large scale of immigration, the new and more diverse origins of the immigrants and the resulting social and economic tensions. Immigration contributed to the growth of big-city political machines and after World War I fear of immigrant radicals triggered the first great Red scare in American national politics. Thus, immigration and the fear of immigration and immigrants played a major role in ... "
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Immigration and Immigrants, 2002.
This paper discusses identity theory as a concept in sociological theory as related to immigration and immigrants.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper applies the identity theory to the case of immigration in the United States. It asks if the United States should continue to allow Immigrants to enter the U.S. seeking refuge and citizenship, when the nations states are already overly populated? It questions whether immigrants should be allowed to enter the U.S. and work when there are hundreds of citizens and native-born Americans already unemployed and desperately searching for work. It uses these questions as example of the conflicting messages immigrants and their children face in modern day society, and explains how they add to the increasingly complex problem of finding identity in a torn nation.
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"The United States is world known for its ethnic diversity, due in part to the immigration allowed over several years. Many people however, fail to find a means to foster inter-racial and ethnic identities, thus causing much conflict and a lack of a uniform sense of identity. The social issue relates to finding a common identity in a nation of multi-ethnicities. Children of immigrants are now coming of age, and from a social psychological stand will make the most lasting impression on society. The character of society will be shaped by their experiences."
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Labour's Labor, 2006.
A review of an article discussing the impact and damage of WWII on the British economy.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses how following World War II, the British economy, its social structures, and its infrastructure, were all considerably damaged by the years of war over the European continent. Unions, as Dorfman points out, entered the post-World War II era as one of the nation's policy focal points in what would otherwise have been a political vacuum (par.1). It further discusses how in the decades following the war, Unions provided the citizenry, in the form of workers, with adequate representation within the structures of government and ensured that many policies and programs were enacted that would ensure not only work related rights and assurance but also social programs. The Unions within Britain for three decades held considerable sway over policy decisions as well as policy formulation.
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Divergent Immigrant Experiences, 2002.
Examines the social, cultural and familial influence on the immigrant experiences of different immigrant groups.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 50.95
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This essay discusses how the experiences of immigrants are different because of divergent social, cultural, and family values in different cultures. When we examine books from different cultural traditions, we are able to compare their different approaches, since we are able to see how the topic of immigration is treated differently.
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Former Russian Union Immigrant Pupils in Israeli Schools, 2001.
This paper is a complete research study focusing on the absorption of immigrant pupils from the former Russian Union into Israeli schools. Extensive literature review included.
54,320 words (approx. 217.3 pages), 204 sources, APA, £ 176.95
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This paper explains that the research is designed to examine if Israeli pupils and immigrant pupils perceive the school atmosphere and immigrant integration differently, and if immigrant and Israeli pupils differ in the intensity of their relationship in their grasp of school atmosphere and integration. The research involved 303 junior high school pupils, aged 12-15, in two schools; one school had a majority immigrant pupil population, whereas the other had relatively few immigrants. The author reports that pupils evaluated themselves in terms of their adjustment to school, their attitudes towards immigration, and the degree to which they identify with the State of Israel. The paper reports that the greater the number of immigrants in a school, the greater their sense of power, to the point where they are unwilling to pay the price for friendship with Israelis.
Table of Introduction
Theory and Literature Review
Immigration to Israel
Key Approaches to Immigrant Absorption
Immigrants? Encounter with Israeli Society
Adjustment and Psychological Difficulties in Emigration
Adolescence as a Period of Change and Transition
Culture, Government and Family in the Former Soviet Union and its Impact on Adolescent Adjustment
Adolescent Attitudes towards Emigration
Parent-Adolescent Relations during Emigration
The Education System
Priming for Absorption and the Reality
Organization of Teaching and Integration Activities that Create Difficulties for Immigrants in Israeli Schools
Various Coping Mechanisms Adopted by Schools for Immigrant Absorption
Social Integration with Peer Groups in Israel
School Atmosphere
Research
Method
Research Population
Research Tools
Research Hypotheses
Research Process Description
Research and Findings
Interviews with Staff Members
Analysis of How School Copes with Immigrant Absorption based on Four Parameters
Summary ? Diagnosis of Coping Mechanisms
Discussion
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"The education system and schools were chosen to bear the brunt of this task of merging the communities because pupils spent so much time there and because of the school?s influence in teaching language, the curriculum and teacher activities as well as peer pressure. The merger was formulated and implemented in the education system via the curriculum and teachers via full assimilation, discipline, adoption of the norms, rules of behavior and values held by the majority by the minority in order for the latter to resemble the former."
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Chinese Immigration to the United States, 2005.
A look at the immigration and labor patterns of Chinese immigrants to the United States.
3,630 words (approx. 14.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 71.95
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This paper examines the Chinese immigrant population in the United States from a province and county of China, Fu Zhou (Fu Jian), a region where the people have traditionally been very different from mainstream Chinese culture. The paper explores the issues faced by these immigrants from Fu Zhou and the challenges that they face in the future. The paper also includes the personal perspective of the author, an Asian-American, in terms of his own views of the problems of immigration and the problems of negative community attribution that many immigrants from Fu Zhou undergo, since they are often looked down upon by mainstream Chinese (Cantonese) immigrants as being uncivilized and overly eager to do anything for money. Finally, the paper addresses the unequal treatment suffered by many immigrant communities in America, as well the conspicuous consumption favored by the Chinese back home in Fu Jian who 'live large' while their American family members work impossibly long hours to bring them the fruits of their labor.
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"In New York especially, the majority of Chinese immigrants who hold viable commercial and tourist space in Chinatown are Cantonese. This means that they are from the south of China, mostly from the Guangzhou province or from Hong Kong (Xiang Gang). They are an established immigrant community with labor relations boards and
viable opportunities for the community?s grievances to be addressed. Many Americans think of China as being more unified than it really is in terms of groups within the mainland. There are many Chinese who speak different languages within China, and even though Mandarin is supposed to be the official (government) language, there are often language barriers between different people. Mandarin is different from Cantonese, but many Cantonese Chinese can also speak Mandarin, since the newspapers and television programs in China are often in this language."
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American Immigrant Economy, 2007.
This paper examines immigrant life and economy in early 20th century America.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses that in general immigrant life, in the early 20th century was one of challenges and hard living. The writer notes that the ideal of the accepting bosom of the wayward masses was propagated further in America during this period, possibly to help the immigrant come to terms personally with a choice to immigrate, which at many times probably seemed dubious to the new American as he or she and her family struggled to stay together, stay clean, earn wages and even eat. The writer points out that different nationalities, at different times in the immigration history of the US, had differing experiences of what it meant to be new to America but it was in general marked by economic stress, that demanded everyone including women and children work for wage labor and unpaid labor to keep the family clothed and fed. Finally, the writer concludes that most immigrant groups settled in areas where others of their national origin had already eked out a pseudo-homeland existence, to try to build even a sliver of the dream of America.
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"At the turn of the 20th century the mental picture of the Immigrant settling in America was one of a rugged hard working and largely hard living family. According to many posthumous accounts, depending upon where the family settled, living conditions were sparse and often painfully overcrowded by any standard. Additionally, the early 20th century marked the beginning of the moves to restrict the work of children, a change that would be difficult to stomach, economically, for many immigrant families but one that was also considered socially progressive, along with old age pension plans and unemployment insurance. The economics of the immigrant family in the early 20th century were often precarious and challenged as the work was hard, the hours were long and the pay was usually barely adequate to maintain a family."
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Decline in Immigrant Health, 2005.
A discussion of the healthy immigrant effect and the decline of immigrant health in Canada.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper discusses the important issue of the decline in immigrant health. The paper discusses the healthy immigrant effect, which has been noted by numerous researchers as a phenomenon where the health of immigrants who first arrive in Canada is far better than that of the Canadian born population but then their health status declines. Also it is highly important to note that there is extensive diversity among groups of immigrants pertaining to health status.
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"Decline in Immigrant Health The decline in immigrant health is a most significant issue. The healthy immigrant effect has been noted by numerous researchers as a phenomenon where the health of immigrants who first arrive in Canada is far better than that of the Canadian-born population but then their health status declines (Kobayashi, 2003; Hyman, 2004). Also, it is highly important that there is extensive diversity among groups of immigrants pertaining to health status. The diversity is related to power relations, to all of the determinants of health, but most especially to income and social status. "
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Immigrant Family Life, 2006.
This paper discusses the impact of immigration to the USA on immigrants' physical and psychological well-being.
1,266 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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The paper explores the lives of immigrants in the USA and quotes a study proving that immigrants who come to the United States live an average of three years longer than most people. The writer explains that this is in spite of the fact that immigrants are more likely to be poor and less likely to see a doctor. The paper explains their resilience but also shows how despite these statistics, immigrants and their families are subject to a number of stressors. Finally,the paper examines the effects of acculturate stress in Korean immigrants and includes a study of acculturation, stress, and depressive symptoms among Korean immigrants in the United States. Included is the complete study source.
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"According to a study released in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health which reviewed million of death and health records from 1986-1994, found that immigrants who come to the United States actually live an average of three years longer that people who are born here (Pritchard pp). This life expectancy deficit is true for all races and reflects both immigrants' innate vitality and their reluctance to embrace Americans' drive-through, drive-everywhere mentality (Pritchard pp). What was most astonishing to researchers is that immigrants are more likely to be poor and less likely to see a doctor, which is usually a prescription for a shorter life (Pritchard pp). Researchers believe that lifestyle plays a large role, for immigrants are less likely to smoke and to be obese, however they are most likely to have been the most physically active and vigorous citizens in their homelands (Pritchard pp). To make the journey and spread roots, they must be resilient, and tend to benefit from stress-reducing social support networks, and have an outlook that appreciates the fact that they are better off than before, even when poor (Pritchard pp). Despite these statistics, immigrants and their families are subject to a number of stressors."
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