...In the article A Mexican Immigrant Manuel Gamio tells us about the late nineteenth century. Mexicans migrated to a land that had previously been conquered by the United States. Again, no different than the others they migrated in search for work, but also those getting away from the Mexican revolution of 1910. The Mexican Revolution was that to transform the Mexican culture and government. In this section, we also get to read about Pablo Mares and his personal testimony. He was one of the ones who fled his country because the revolutionist attempted to kill him and rob him. Pablo Mares states “He just missed killing me and that was because another soldier hit his arm and the bullet lodged in the roof of the house” (Chan 128). Living conditions...
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...Illegal Mexican Immigrants and Their Life in California There are many negative stereotypes of illegal Mexican immigrants. Many Americans don’t like the idea that illegal immigrants don’t pay many forms of taxes. Because of their undocumented legal status, we don’t have much information about their background. Their presence in the society creates uncertainty. They are seen as a factor of social instability. Many Americans also blame them for the taking over jobs. However, the reality is that California is becoming more and more dependent on its illegal Mexican immigrant population. These illegal immigrants from Mexico are a reliable source of low cost labor for California. They take the low paid, seasonal, menial and physically demanding jobs that the U.S. citizens are not willing to take. They stabilize the economy of California by keeping the labor cost low, thus keeping a lid on the inflation rate. They contribute to the government by paying sales tax directly and income tax at least indirectly. They are not here to enjoy benefits, as they are not eligible for most public assistance. The vast majority of them are here in California for work and better life. They are peaceful being and they work very hard to earn their place. The reality shows that illegal Mexican immigrants bring substantial positive impacts to California not only economically but also culturally. The huge number of illegal Mexican workers shows us their ethic of hard work and the importance of love for...
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...Business, Government and Society | Singapore, A Nation of Immigrants | | | CONTENTS Introduction 3 - 5 1.1 Background 3 - 4 1.2 Identification of Issues 4 - 5 1.3 Current Situation 5 Stakeholder Analysis 6 - 7 Why are Foreigners Needed in Singapore? 8 - 10 3.1 Government Perspective 8 - 9 3.1.1An Ethical Perspective 9 - 10 3.2 Businesses’ Perspective 10 The Need to Address the Issue 10 Existing Government Actions 11 - 13 * 5.1 Implementations 11 5.2 Approach in Issue Management Through Implementations 12 - 13 5.3 Analysis of Government Policies 13 Recommendations 14 - 17 * 6.1 Government’s Perspective 14 - 15 6.2 Businesses’ Perspective15 - 16 6.3 Society’s Perspective 17 Conclusion 18 References 19 - 20 Appendices Appendix A: Compiled comments from citizens regarding their concerns on foreigners 1. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Background Singapore’s long history of immigration started from the 2nd century AD when the first settlers arrived on the island. Since then, the country has grown and is now a melting pot of approximately 5 million people made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Asians of various descents, and Caucasians. As shown in Figure 1, the number of foreigners working and studying in Singapore makes up roughly 37% of the entire population in 2010. (Singapore Department of Statistics, 2010) In August 2001, then PM Goh Chock Tong urged Singaporeans to accept the increasing number of foreigners in the city...
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...both legally and illegally in search of a better life. The largest group of Hispanic immigrants is the Mexicans. The Mexicans represented 66.9% of the Hispanic population of the United States in 2002 (Schaefer, 2006, p. 236). Census figures confirm that 69% of illegal aliens inhabiting America in 2009 entered from Mexico. If fact, nearly one out of ten Mexicans currently resides in the United States (Terrazas, 2010). The linguistic choices of Mexican immigrants are 23% English dominant, 26% English and Spanis- speaking, and 51% Spanish (Schaefer, 2006, p. 241) The language barriers lead to inadequate schooling and less chance for economic advancement. Over half of Mexican immigrants entering America have not graduated high school or obtained proper documentation for employment; this leads to employment of most in unskilled fields. With less than 6% of immigrants earning a college degree, few immigrants qualify for professional positions (Buffington, 2011). Most Mexican immigrant males find employment as factory or construction workers (Terrazas, 2010). The Roman Catholic religion largely defines Mexican culture and holidays; they continue these traditions in the United States (Englecook & Marín, 2011). The Mexican Americans show a strong reliance on family with extended families living together or near each other. The legal status, language barrier, and educational level of Mexican immigrants makes political...
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...written by a US writer Thomas Coraghessan Boyle. The Novel has been written in the backdrop of tightening US restriction upon the immigration, especially for the immigrants from Mexico. The story deals with the main characters like Delaney Mosbacher, his wife Kyra Mossbacher, a Mexican Immigrant- Cándido Rincón, and his wife América. The story deals with the resentment that exists between the indigenous Americans living in the region Aroyo Blanco canyon, near Los-Angeles, California. It shows the stark contrast that exists in the between the Americans and those emigrating from the other nations. Americans spend a serene and contented life, whereas the Mexicans live a substandard and boring life. The motive of Cándido Rincón to bring his wife to the US was to make their US dream get realized. But the native people always cast a suspicious eye upon the intents of the immigrants. Though there are some miscreants living in every society, they make every other person subject to suspicion. In the novel, where the man with the backwards cap creates the problems for the other people, they make the other people find the same suspicious treatment for themselves. The plot of the story opens accident of Cándido Rincón, who is hit by the car of Delaney Mossbacher. Delaney Mossbacher is a middle-class, nature writer. Cándido is a Mexican, illegally living in the US. Candido gets badly injured. But, on being offered a nominal amount of twenty dollars, he is ready to reconcile with Delaney. The...
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...Although the laws exiled and "prohibited from entering the U.S included all Asians, illiterates, prostitutes, criminals, idiots, and paupers" but, unlike them, Mexicans in the last 1920s could freely migrate into the United States (p. 27). Mexicans were the focal point of U.S. immigration law enforcement when Border Patrol officers disrupted their authority on border crossings keep any big number of Mexican laborers out of United States. Hernandez shows how the first Border Patrol came mostly from these poor Anglo experiences and had a labor competition. The Border Patrol also seemed to have absorbed an important number of former Texans and only many of them had a suspicion on Mexicans with them to the federals. Bases on the key examples in "Migra! A History of The U.S Border Patrol" Hernandez victoriously explains the Mexican and U.S governments policies to manage the migration of all the immigrants between their...
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...current system protects neither the immigrant from unlawful work practices, nor the American worker from lower wages. Donald Trump focuses on the American worker’s side, and he would be the first to say that we have a tremendous problem. His website states that Americans have lost countless jobs, our infrastructure is falling apart, and we continue to support illegal immigrants and send foreign aid to Mexico (“Immigration Reform”). While almost everyone in America agrees that immigration reform needs to happen, experts are united in the belief that Donald Trump’s plan is not the best way to do that, and there are several reasons. Donald Trump’s proposal is fight back against the Mexican government....
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...For many years, undocumented Mexicans have immigrated to the united states. Mexican Immigration first started getting popular in 1980’s up to this day it is still continuing. In the 2010-2014 period, more than 11.7 million, the U.S. cities with the greatest number of Mexican immigrants were the greater Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas. The vast majority of Mexican immigrants settle in the United States, with others heading to Canada, Spain, and Germany, according to mid-2015 estimates by the United Nations Population Division. Today Mexicans immigrants make up about 17% of the total U.S. population. Now Mexicans are essential key for the united states to be a successful country. And also without them, there would be a lot of jobs empty...
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... Mexican American immigration act There are lots of current policies/events going around in the world and it affects the Mexican Americans community, but there is one that affects mostly all Mexican Americans is the immigration which is the most issue in the United States and Mexico. Mexican and Mexican American immigrants seem to share a common culture identity because of discrimation. Currently discrimination has influenced young and older Mexican Americans so that some fear they have gained into the American society. Current immigration is fair and without immigration the United States would not be as nearly as diverse as it is today. First the United States should allow a certain number of immigrants each year so immigrants who need protection. This also protects people from persecution and shows that the United States should welcome immigrants who need a safe environment. The United States immigration also focuses on immigrants from North America, particulately from México. Mexicans immigrants come to the United States because they believe they will find work (farm work) in the fall because it’s a seasonal and they seek a job. It also affects the Mexican American community because as immigrants enter the United States they are more likely to in areas where their family and friends settle in with them and people consider it to be overcrowded and Mexican immigrants start taking over the Mexican American jobs. With this overcrowded population Mexican migration...
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...In his book: “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity”, Samuel P. Huntington showed his strong worries with the American identity. According to this book, Huntington thought because of lack of common enemies and opposites, the cohesion power and common identity of American people diminished in the past twenty years. He also blamed the Latino immigrants, especially the Mexican immigrants for threatening the American political foundation with the impact on American culture and language they brought. Under this circumstance, he called on a more concrete American identity, which not only includes the “American creed”, but also embodies a core culture. Different with many people, he argued United States is fundamentally a “settler” nation rather than an “immigration” nation. And the initial settlers, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP), had a dominating effect on the subsequent values and direction of the country. So the Anglo-Protestantism culture, which includes Protestant work ethic and centrality of the religion to personal life, should be re-affirmed as the American core culture, and United States, which he believe ought to be a nation-state, should be built upon this base. And he implied that American government should take measures to limit Latino immigration and take Islam as a national enemy. Huntington’s view has a clear conservative and Republican color. Huntington himself probably views himself as a firm patriot, however what I read is that...
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...Punitive would mean that the outcome would be negative. A clear example would be what has occurred in Arizona; on how any officer can stop someone and ask for legal papers at any time. Majority of the time this law is targeted towards Hispanics. Incentive policies would be the opposite of punitive and the outcome of that one is positive. Pat Buchanan characterizes the “Hispanic Population” as very powerful and dominant. Very dominant a dominant popular ideology towards Latinos and immigrants is that the citizens see “social non-comformity as threatening to security”. Not only that but citizens fear that the Latino immigrants are coming in huge numbers and they start to see more competition towards every day jobs. Even though immigrants don’t have quite the resume in a manner of speaking they are still thought of and feared by many and some fear them in different ways. Mostly Latino Immigrants are right off the bat believed to be Mexican. The population thinks this because of the dominance of Mexican immigrants over the whole country but majorly the west coast....
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...of cheap and ‘unskilled’ labor, circular migration, importation-deportation and institutional involvement. What we see in the early 1900s is that the Mexican immigrant population was exploited as a source of flexible, low-cost labor that could be imported and deported freely. This meant that when the U.S. required more sources of cheap labor, they would import Mexican workers and deport them when the labor was no longer needed. This led to this form of circular migration where Mexican immigrants were brought over during WW I when we needed labor and then deported during the Great Depression followed by importation during WW II when the U.S. required more workers due to another labor shortage. This led to institutional involvement from the U.S. Department of State, Labor, and Justice, which formed the Braceros Program. This allowed for the temporary importation of contract laborers from Mexico to the U.S. I believe that of all these forces, the importation and deportation of cheap and ‘unskilled’ labor played the biggest role in creating and shaping Mexican migration to the United States. What we see with this trend of importing and deporting Mexicans is that the U.S. brings in and removes Mexican immigrants when they are no longer beneficial. This seems to be the primary theme in which Mexican migration was built upon. Mexicans were viewed as cheap and unskilled labor brought in to work in the factories and fields, which can be considered to be undesirable jobs. This is evident...
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...different cultures and include Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Central Americans. Each of these groups vary in their customs, religious beliefs, political views, family views, and other conventions that make them similar in some ways, and very different in others (Franklin, 2009). This paper will discuss the various cultures of Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Venezuelan-Americans in America. Mexican-Americans As a result of the Mexican-American war, about 80,000 Mexicans resided in the United States due to the accumulation of New Mexico and California. Even though many returned to Mexico, the majority stayed in the United States and gained their citizenship after two years (Englekirk and Martin, 2009). Since then, Mexican immigration to the United States has grown significantly and for various reasons. Today, Mexican-Americans make up about two thirds of the Hispanic population in the United States (Schaefer, 2006). The first indigenous Mexican people were various Indians such as Mixtec, Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, Toltec, Zapotec, and Teotihuacan who assimilated with Spaniards after Spain invaded Mexico. Mexican families were typically male dominated but close-knit due to respect for elders. When women entered the workforce, male dominance was not as prevalent, but men are still the authoritative figure in the home. Between the 1940’s and 1960’s during labor shortages, many Mexicans were brought into the United...
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...chapter one, Americanismo – City of Peasants, Hector Tobar first introduces the idea of Americanismo: immigrants have cultural dual citizenship in physical living in America and keeping their cultural identity alive in the home. The people who form a nation, like America, have an integrated identity composed of their cultural origin. 2. In chapter 2, Where Green Chiles Roam – No es imposibl, Tobar depicts the dichotomy of illegal immigration at the border, one side with the fantasy of life across the border and the other side, the reality of living in America. This highlights that living conditions and perspective are truly a function of perspective. 3. In chapter 3, Brother Citizen, Brother Alien – Sin fronteras, Tobar portrays a specific encounter he had with two brothers that are separated by citizenship, cultural and national. 4. In chapter 4, The Wanderers – El destierro, Tobar depicts the lives of immigrants, the channels through which they cross and life after crossing the border. It is one depicted of wandering travel and job seeking. 5. In chapter 5, In the Land of the New – En la tierra de lo nuevo, Tobar illustrates fantasy, of those who immigrate, meeting reality through brokenness in the education system. 6. In chapter 6, Our Secret Latin Heartlands – Los secretos del machete, Tobar depicts the phenomenon of immigrants who reject their Mexican cultural identity for the desperate hope of being integrated into “American culture”. Tobar brings reason...
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...AMATEUR ANALYSIS So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans “So Mexican Are Taking Jobs from Americans” is a poem written by Jimmy Santiago Baca. From the way the poem is written, we can infer that the author, himself, is the speaker, and the White, American population is his audience. We can gather this information because of his wording, for example, within the first few lines when he writes, “And do you, gringo, take off your ring, drop your wallet into a blanket spread over the ground, and walk away?” The words "you", "your", and "gringo" imlpy that he is speaking to White Americans. The tone of this particular poem seems, to me, to be very bitter in nature. Words and phrases that gave me this impression of bitterness can be found in lines 24-29 when he exclaims, “I see the poor marching for a little work, I see small white farmers selling out to clean-suited famers (referring to businessman) living in New York, who’ve never been on a farm, don’t know the look of a hoof of the smell of a woman’s body bending all day long in fields”. What I took from these lines is that he is of the opinion that the Mexican immigrants work just as hard as, if not harder than, White Americans, yet they reap little benefit from their efforts. This is different from the American mentality that we should be entitiled to a reward for our hard work. Other phrases that contribute to this association with bitterness are available in lines 20-23, which read, “The rifles I hear sound...
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