...HS3018: Sociology of Gender Research Question: How migrant Chinese women cope with life in Singapore. As a migrant nation, the issue of immigration has always been an immanent theme in Singapore. In recent years, migrant workers in Singapore have come under scrutiny due to the scale at which foreigners are entering the country, with almost 1.5 million non-residents living in Singapore making up more than a quarter of our population of 5.4 million (Ministry of Manpower, 2013) of which many are also new citizens and permanent residents, who might be considered outsiders in some contexts. This influx of foreigners has always been a hot topic in Singapore, ranging from the common discourse of jobs being ‘stolen’ to domestic altercations being blown up by the media (see the curry incident; The Telegraph, 2011). Additionally, the recent announcement of the Population White Paper by the Singapore government was taken very negatively by the civil population as it initially planned to bolster the workforce by greatly increase the number of foreigners such that native Singaporeans would only comprise of a small percentage of the population (Population White Paper, 2013). As such, media and public discourse regarding immigration has been largely Singaporean-centric in nature, revolving around how foreigners have affected Singapore and its occupants; not enough has been done to investigate the experiences and conditions of migrants living in Singapore. This paper will focus on migrant...
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...Abstract Emigration is the activity of moving from a native land or country to another. Since the early ages, people move from their native country to other countries for a better life. Emigrants mainly move away from their native countries to host countries to evade wars, to look for better jobs or even to further their studies. Emigration can also occur as a result of human trafficking and slave trade. This paper explores aspects of emigration that may be problematic to an emigrant and a host country. Aspects of Emigration That May Be Problematic To an Emigrant Basically, emigrants move from their native countries to other counties for better lives. However, emigrants face many challenges in their host countries. There are two main problematic aspects of emigration that emigrants face. These are legal and socio-economic problems. Emigrants face a myriad of legal difficulties in their host countries. According to The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2006), emigrants hardly enjoy full legal benefits that their native counterparts enjoy. This is due to lack of citizenship. For instance, an emigrant who losses his or her job in a host country may not be entitled to claim benefits. According to Kahanec & Zimmermann (2009), emigrants may not have rights to participate in elections, either as candidates or voters. This is another problem that emigrants face. Emigrants may move to other countries to seek jobs. However, they are faced with problems in getting...
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...Share Thanksgiving in Canada This article tells us a new program in Canada which is called “Share Thanksgiving”, launched in Toronto in 2012 by Engineers Without Borders Canada co-founder Parker Mitchell. As everybody knows, Canada is a country of immigrants, and according to Statistics Canada, 1.2 million people immigrated to Canada between 2006 and 2011. One in five people in this country are foreign born. For this great number of recent immigrant families, thanksgiving tradition of Canada seems still unfamiliar. Parker Mitchell, who has traveled around the world and received a lot of generosity in homes abroad, founded this event to bring this to Canada to bridge that gap, by connecting new Canadians with established families to break bread and give thanks. Since last year, also the first year of this program, a lot of original Canadian families joined into this big event, some of them share those stories of the Thanksgiving Day with those new arrivals in this article. By spending a Thanksgiving Day with the established families, the new Canadians feel like they are one part of the country, and those established families think that being a Canadian, they should also share Thanksgiving with a new Canadian. As far as we know, Thanksgiving Day has been a national public holiday in Canada on the second Monday of October since 1957. It is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year. People often use the three-day Thanksgiving weekend...
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...valued because nobody is completely the same as anyone else, even within the categories above. People tend to reject what is different. Our difference/diversities can lead to growth as a society or can lead to violence and hatred. Everyone in the workplace is treated equally. I think that everyone has something to offer and everyone has a strong factor/skill that they can contribute to the company. 2. Ethnocentrism, or the belief that one’s own set of values and beliefs is superior to others, has always had negative connotations. It is often cited as the main cause of many social problems, such as wars, oppression and slavery, among others 3. Movement of people from one country to another. Immigration is movement to a country; emigration is movement from a country. Immigration or emigration on a large scale is often for economic reasons or because of religious, political, or social persecution (which may create refugees), and often results in restrictive legislation by individual countries. 4. There are four ways a group of people can be identified are race, ethnicity, religion and gender. Within these four groups there are five characteristics that they all share that make them fall into a minority group. Those five characteristics are unequal treatment, distinguishing physical or cultural traits, involuntary membership, awareness of subordination, and in-group marriage. 5. It’s because they want to feel better about themselves because most people have little...
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...Migration and its impact on the labor market Case Study: Romania "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds...There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter..."(Rachel Carson) 1. General theoretical aspects of migration. Historical and social perspective Migration is defined as a "change from a social, economic, political and / or cultural environment to another, in order to develop a project and answer to any individual or group expectations." Migration phenomenon has always existed, resulted through transhumance, invasions, colonization and crusades, generally caused by the attraction of the richest regions on the poorest populations. Labor migration is the supportive factor of globalization,'' a process that allows reducing geographical constraints on social and cultural processes in which individuals are increasingly aware of this." There is currently no state or part of the world that does not import or export workforce. During the 20th Century the migration process developed significantly. In this period, Romania was predominantly a country of emigration and still is. Acording to some sources, by 1914, a large number of people decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean, most focusing on the U.S. and Canada, the rest of them going to...
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...contribution to society- but a lot less deserving of high wages such as an attorney, etc. This inequality is undeniable and still a functioning part of society. The conflict theory focuses on the competition between classes of society for these resources in an effort to maintain power and prestige. The capitalists battle with the under-class workers for control. “The United States has the fastest growing population by far and the greatest disparity between CEO pay and average worker pay (Abernethy, 2001).” Conflict theorists argue that those who accompany the unskilled jobs are forced into that type of employment due to social inequality; not having the education or opportunities of those “better off”. “Population growth and immigration cannot be ignored as the cause of greater, and growing, inequality in the United States—and also its growing...
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...In my research project I would like to deal with the education and integration policies in Germany and France. The easiest way for integration of immigrants is by education. If the immigrants speak the language of the country of destination it is easier for them to integrate or get integrated. So it is then easier for them to find a place in the receiving society, and to integrate themselves. For young (school attendance) migrants language and structural assimilation is the key to social integration in the country of destination, into the education system in the sense of formal equal opportunities. However, the reality in the two largest European countries is quite different. Migrants- with large differences between individual nationalities, waves of migration and migration backgrounds- in the German education and employment system are usually have disadvantages compared to local (Dollmann 2010). In Germany the policy and the locals believed the integration of immigrants is not necessary they a long time it was assumed that guest workers and migrants would return to their homeland after a while. Even the migrant workers themselves lived with this illusion of return. Today, awareness has risen in Germany about how important the integration of migrants is and also gaining more and more importance due to demographic change. For a long time, the concept of integration in France equated with assimilation. The word assimilation shall describe the integration of migrants in French...
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...Journal 2: What barriers do immigrants face when they come to Canada? When immigrants come to Canada it’s a hard choice for some families leaving their home land and starting a new life in a different county with a different society, language, culture and believes. For some families they leave their home land to come to Canada for a better place to live, building a better future for their kids and a safe place. Immigrants that come to Canada face lots of barriers that are learning a new language, getting to know a new country, finding a home, job and new friends. My dad faced lots of barriers in life coming to Canada he make that choice for his kids to have a better life. My dad was a surgeon in Germany , he studied about 7 years not including the studies he did in his home land. Coming to Canada he had to start all his studies all over again since he had a German medical license not a Canadian medical license. These stories below are written by the authors what they had to face coming to Canada. The first story was by Isabel Vincent “ finding a nationality that fits” Isabel write a story about how their Portuguese family who tried to become “Canadianize” in order to be accepted in society. We often are left on our own to find ourselves in Canada. After a period of time living in Canada, may lose his/her family traditions, beliefs and values and it changes a person. Now, I see more young teens that came here with such innocence being involved in things that they shouldn't...
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...~Task 2~ …Refugees Coming To Australia… Refugees are people who fled from their homes in the face of persecution, or threats to their lives. But there is no reason why the Australian government should be obliged to welcome asylum seekers who use illegal methods to come here. We have the responsibility to protect our borders and way of life against what could amount to a huge arrival of immigrants whose backgrounds and possible criminal status are unknown.Australia shouldn’t accept the refugees as they are over populating the country and if we do more and more will come. People believe that asylum seekers deserve a fair go just like everyone else, but why should they if they are receiving everything off tax payers money. With the ever increasing number of refugees entering our country, many Australians are struggling to sustain what they once had. Many Australians were already struggling before the arrival of the refugees, and are only suffering more. Most Australians don’t earn or own substantial amounts of money and with the arrival of the asylum seekers it just puts more strain on them. Many people are now loosing their jobs and houses as they can no longer pay their mortgages, bills and purchase everyday needs as the government believes it is better to support the arrival of asylum seekers. Many Australians are in need of public housing and extra cash and the government seems to be failing its own people and giving it all away to the asylum seekers awaiting processing...
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...languages and dialects from around the world. Recent decades have coincided with the rapid globalisation in Australia society, due to a main reason is the government’s immigration program as skilled worker migration. This program has been very much impacted on Australia labour force. According to Australia penetrates into the ageing society, a serious skilled labour shortage is occurred in many industries. {text:toc-mark-end} {text:toc-mark-end} {text:toc-mark-end} Especially, the nursing industry is mainly affected by the aging population issue. Because of falling mortality rate, life expectancy and declining fertility rate, demand for nursing workforce is rapidly increasing in number. So, the solution that the government came up with the shortage of nurses was the General Skills Migration where overseas nurses can work in Australia. Through the skilled worker program, as many as number of lack of nursing labour force could be replaced by immigrated nurses. Introduction Understanding and respect for different culture is one of valuable moral principles in these days as multiculturalism society. According to Bennett (n.d.), multiculturalism is defined that the emergence of the term is strongly associated with a growing realisation of the unintended social and cultural consequences of large-scale immigration. The influx of migrant skilled workers, foreign wives, business migration and other foreigners into Australia in recent years has led to a dramatic transformation of...
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...Trends in expatriationDuring the later half of the 20th century expatriation was dominated by professionals sent by their employers to foreign subsidiaries or headquarters. Starting at the end of the 20th century globalization created a global market for skilled professionals and leveled the income of skilled professionals relative to cost of living while the income differences of the unskilled remained large. Cost of intercontinental travel had become sufficiently low, such that employers not finding the skill in a local market could effectively turn to recruitment on a global scale.[citation needed] This has created a different type of expatriate where commuter and short-term assignments are becoming more common and often used by organizations to supplement traditional expatriation.[9] Private motivation is becoming more relevant than company assignment. Families might often stay behind when work opportunities amount to months instead of years. The cultural impact of this trend is more significant. Traditional corporate expatriates did not integrate and commonly only associated with the elite of the country they were living in. Modern expatriates form a global middle class with shared work experiences in multi-national corporation and working and living the global financial and economical centers. Integration is incomplete but strong cultural influences are transmitted. Middle class expatriates contain many re-migrants from emigration movements one or two generations earlier...
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...One of the push factors which may account for migration is economic factors such as poverty and the lack of jobs in a particular country. Most of the international migrants are leaving their country of origin to find better employment opportunities abroad. In some countries there is a scarcity of job positions and the income received is not enough to sustain their families. In India migration has occurred due to these factors which have affected their economy. The amount of jobs available to high skilled graduates is minimal leading them to move to the more developed countries. The low quality conditions are also a factor for their migration. In the article provided it is stated that Kerala, India is losing many of their most knowledgeable physicians and doctors to United Kingdom. The poor environment of their health care system and the low economic stability which this sector delivers to its personnel is leaving Kerala with not enough health care workers to support and provide treatment for their growing population in times of illnesses. The concepts incorporated in this article which are covered in the module include the brain drain definition about the movement of highly trained and skilled workers to more developed countries which provide them with greater opportunities. There are issues arising from this type of migration affecting India. A major problem is that these doctors will not be able to benefit their own country and economy by working there and instead...
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...Ethnic Groups and Discrimination ETH125 October 2, 2011 Dr.Campopiano Axia College of University of Phoenix 1. Abstract Ethnic groups and how they are affected by discrimination, segregation, and racism. There are many different ethnic groups in America. I have a strong belonging with the Irish. The Irish started immigrating to the United States as early as 1798, because they were forced out of their home land by the English (Schaefer 2006). Some of my ancestors with my last name McCullough immigrated to the United States in 1851. The highest immigration years for my ancestors were 1851, 1873, and 1880 (Ancestry, 1997-2011). There were 28% of Irish immigrants that departed from England (Ancestry, 1997-2011). New York City was the main area where the Irish immigrated to. The Irish faced prejudice, segregation, and racism. The Irish faced prejudice against their religion not only in Ireland, but in the United States as well. The Irish were discriminated against their religion, their way of living and criminal behavior. The Irish were known for being poor, dirty, criminals, thieves, and bad religion beliefs. The Irish had intermarriages between Catholics and Protestants, which was not looked at in a positive manner. The Irish were thought of being poor and uneducated, which led to segregation. They lived in terrible living conditions, and only allowed to live with other Irish. The “shacks” they lived in were so close together it was easy for...
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...| Population Changes | | | Helen Hill | 11/24/2011 | SCI/275 Instructor: Tori Robinson | Population Changes The four factors that produce population size are: 1) Birth, 2) Death, 3) Immigration, and 4) Emigration. Birth is the increase of population by the ratio of births and people in a specified area, death is the decrease of population by the ratio of deaths and people also in a specified area, immigration is an increase of population by people moving into a new country, and emigration is the decrease of population by people moving out of a country. The factors that affected the population size of the Nutria is the fact that they were brought into this country and that the fact that they are not native to our country. Another factor is that the female within three years can produce up to 40 offspring and within six months of age the babies are ready to reproduce as well. What I think would happen to the Nutria if their food source would be depleted is that they would either die off, or they would emigrate to another area that has the same type of food source that they are accustomed to. If that did not happen they would adapt to new food sources which are similar to what they are accustomed to eating. Being that the Nutria are vegetarians and only eat the...
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...Use of PEST analysis at UNISON Introduction UNISON is Britain and Europe's biggest public sector trade union, representing more than 1.3 million members working in public services. CURRICULUM TOPICS • Political factors • Economic factors • Social factors • Technological factors Local government The NHS GLOSSARY Trade union: an organisation that represents the mutual interests of employees across a range of issues. Voluntary sector: the part of the economy which is made up of for example charities and non-profit making organisations. Private sector: the part of the economy owned and run by individuals not by the government. Public sector: the part of the economy owned by government or its agents. Representation: to speak, act or present officially for another person. The voluntary sector UNISON members are employed in Schools, colleges and universities Gas, electricity and water companies Transport Job roles they represent in the public sector include, for example: • librarians • Human Resources, IT and finance workers • teaching assistants and early years nursery staff • secretaries • cleaners, caretakers and school meals supervisors • care workers, social workers and nurses. UNISON campaigns on a variety of issues relevant to its members. Currently, it is running the Migrant Workers Participation Project. This campaign focuses on the issues faced by migrant workers in the UK. Migrant workers are employees who have moved from overseas to the UK to find...
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