...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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...Immigrants make up a considerable proportion of the Canadian population. At the time of the 1991 Census, there were 4.3 million immigrants living in Canada, which is 16% of the total Canadian population. (See Graph 1, Immigrants as a Percentage of Canada's Population, 1901-1996) Over the past decades the level of immigration in Canada has increased from an average of 137 000 immigrants arriving in Canada in the 1960s to an average of about 200 000 in 1998. (See Table1, Annual Immigration Plan 1998) The largest share of immigrants admitted into Canada are in the economic class, in 1994, close to half of the new immigrants coming to Canada were economic class immigrants. Immigration is needed to maintain the Canadian population; "Canada will be an aging society with such a low birth rate that it will soon be unable to sustain its population without sustained immigration." Immigrants are a source of labour to the Canadian economy; immigrants are as likely as people born in Canada to be employed, and many are skilled workers that the Canadian economy is in need of. Business class, investor and entrepreneur immigrant help to provide job opportunities in the economy, and also generate more economic activities and income for the Canadian economy. "Analysis of data from the household/family file of the 1981 Canadian Census of Population reveals that, regardless of origin, immigrants benefit the Canadian-born population through the public treasury." Immigrants are an aid to the Canadian...
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...Life of a Immigrant Immigrants affecting the American economy and job chances. Many immigrants will do whatever it takes to get a job. Immigrants cross borders to get jobs to support their families. Many Americans are upset about how immigrants come over and receives a job before that do. For example, a reason why immigrants receives jobs before americans is because immigrants will accept less than minimum wage which deprives americans of even a chance at many jobs. In the film, the immigrants were working in the fields picking peppers and other vegetables for less pay. Another example, is that illegal’s will work for three to four dollars when americans will work for $7.25 or more. Not just the pay but immigrants will also work long hours in any conditions to help their families. So therefore americans los opportunities on jobs because they want more pay. Problems border patrol go through. Border patrol is a hard job to do. They make sacrifices every night trying to stop illegal aliens for getting free. For example, they face illegal immigrants running, jumping fences and sometimes fighting with them. However, they do not have to worry about just immigrants getting through. Border patrol has to also worry about their bosses yelling at them angrily , and possibly getting fired for not doing their jobs well enough. Patrol has complaints sometimes for being to aggressive with the immigrants. In the film, border patrol has to camp out all night in their chairs and in their trucks...
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...When it comes to the topic of immigrants, most of us will readily agree that they changed America. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of “how did they change America”. While some are convinced that America changed them, others believe that they changed America. Even though there are policies and regulations to prevent the influx of illegal immigrants in the United States; why are they not being enforced or do the people feel that illegal immigration should be ignored in the United States? Everyone in the United States of America is an immigrant or has descended from immigrants. The Constitution of the United States begins: “We the People of the United States…” Nonetheless, we know the United States was not and then and is not now made up of a single group of people. It is made up of many peoples. Immigration is defined as action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country; Migration is defined as the act or process of moving from one region or country to another; Populating is defined as a place with permanent residents or becoming a permanent resident in a place; and An immigrant is defined as an act of entering a new country to settle permanently the act of moving to or establish yourself in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. America is a nation of immigrants. Our American journey and our success would simply not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner...
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...Faiza Basharat September 25, 2015 Professor Schulz HIS59-Sec 11 The Amna Profile Big, brown eyes. That’s all you could see. Draped heavily in black fabric from her head to her toes. About 5’3 walking with a trolley filled with suitcases and her son along side her. Amna Arif, a 28 year old Muslim female at the airport in 1997 waiting for her husband to pick her up. Finally being able to reunite with her husband after five years of marriage. Amna had to stay behind with relatives in Pakistan until her husband made legal documents for her to live with him in the United States of America. After coming to America Amna lived with her husband, Mohammad Arif, and her son Aahil Arif in Brooklyn, New York. They lived in a two-bedroom apartment. Mohammad earned well being a carpet salesman in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They got along with all their neighbors. They shared the same daily responsibilities as all Americans around them. Amna was born and raised in Pakistan. She lived in and around a Muslim community her entire life, she was not accustomed to the diversity or the multicultural environment in New York. Fortunately she completed some college course work and understood and spoke Basic English. Before migrating to America, she lived with her parents and relatives nearby where family always accompanied her back home. She always had friends over that spoke the same language, dressed the same way and shared similar beliefs. Amna later got married to Mohammad...
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...Paola Quinones How has the neighborhood you grew up influenced you into being the person you are? The person I am today has to do a lot with the way I was raised. I was born in Chicago and raised in Chicago. When I was 10 I moved to Romeoville, IL. This transition was very difficult for me because never really had to experience change and finding out I had to scared me a lot. The only reason why my parents moved to the suburbs was because they wanted a better environment for my brother and I. The schooling is better here as well as the people here are a better influence. In Chicago I remember hearing about gangs killing people and drugs were always a number one topic. Even though I did go to a Private Catholic School in Chicago, the educational curriculum was not as great as the one I have here in Romeoville. In Chicago I was never allowed to go out because my parents were afraid of the dangers that could bring. All my family lived in Chicago, so finding out I might be moving hurt me a lot because that meant I was not going to be as close to my cousins anymore. It was always hard for me to make new friends in elementary school, making new friends in Romeoville was something that I had fear about as well. My parents were always scared that environment that was going on around me was going to affect me in a negative way, so they made the decision to move. At that time I never understood why, but now I do. Here in Romeoville I get better education and surrounded myself with...
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...American Cultural Values that are Promoted in Advertisement Advertising is the most influential institution of socialization in the modern society. It is all around us that we cannot run away from it. From the article, “Beauty…and the Beast of Advertising” stated that advertising is an over 100 billion dollar a year industry and affects all of us throughout our lives. We are exposed to over 2000 ads a day, aiming to persuade consumers to buy a certain product. American values are culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful that serve as broad guidelines for social living. In order to sell products, advertising has to appeal to people’s needs and prove how it can play a role in their lives. There are three American cultural values that are promoted in advertisement and those are beauty, work ethic and diversity. One of the American cultural values that is promoted in advertisement is beauty. Many woman are also obsessed living up to the beauty standard that advertisers set in place. In our society we grow up with perfection around us. We watch advertisement in the TV and look at ads,which have been photo-shopped into perfection. They can trick you into thinking the flawless model could be you if you buy their product, but in reality the model themselves are not even that perfect. The value they promotes sometime in advertising physically talks about the perfection of skin. Advertisement use the value of beauty to attract or...
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...Children of Immigrants A familiar story of the American narrative and a great theme in psychology of second generation is that the children of immigrants believe that they are the main reason for immigration of their parents who in most cases stake their hopes for future on the success of their children. Perceiving the sacrifices that are made by parents, seemingly on their behalf, not any amount of guilt toward their parents touches the children and drives their motivation to obtain a dynamic which in turn can offer the immigrant parents some level of psychological control over their offspring. Growing up in the immigrant families is usually marked by discordant acculturation, when the children’s learning of new ways and simultaneous loss of immigrant culture outstrips that of parents. When this occurs, linguistic and cultural gaps among them can exacerbate the intergenerational conflicts; make the children feel ashamed of their parents as they attempt to blend with the native friends, and lead to reversal roles, as the children take up adult roles earlier by dint of situations. All families of immigrants must contend with “stress and storm†adolescence and “generation gapsâ€, and the acculturation to new society. This is often a conflictive and complex process that is full of fault lines that are non-reducible to simplistic elaborations of parental pressure or peer pressure. Nevertheless, at the heart of the matter is the relation between children and their immigrant parents...
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...Immigrants of the U.S. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of an immigrant is “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence”. Therefore, immigration in Unites States’ history dates all the way back to 1565 and the first European settlement in America or what they deemed as the ‘New World’ at the time. People choose to immigrate to other countries for various reasons, whether it is for safety, a chance at a new life, to experience another culture, or even just for the desire to explore the world. This essay focuses on the broad history of immigration in the United States, the various stakeholders’ in the issue and their stances and arguments, as well as organizing these arguments into different categories. The first wave of migration to hit America was The Great Migration that lasted between 1630 and 1640, a decade in which over twenty thousand Puritans escaped from Britain to America due to the disputes between the Puritans and King Charles I and Parliament. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived in America in order to colonize, with over half of the immigrants coming as indentured servants to the wealthier colonizers. These immigrants came from all across Europe and were all focused on establishing themselves as early as possible in America and to hopefully become rich and famous. The first stakeholder in the issue of immigration in the United States was the government and in particular,...
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...reason that many immigrants were escaping in order to find a refuge in the United States. In addition, due to floods, there was destroying of farmlands, which meant that no crops could grow. The loss of food coupled with loss of land to the oppressive regime that was imposing high taxes meant that the Chinese people faced the danger of starvation. In a bid to find economic reprieve, many Chinese men and women left their homes to try their luck in the new land of opportunities namely, United States. A census carried out in the United States in 1860 put the number of Chinese immigrants at 35,000. Life at the United States did not start rosy for the immigrants and they met hostility and outright discrimination. There are significant differences in the economic and social situations of immigrants during this period. Economically, the Chinese were poor. This was because the immigrants were mostly peasants and not educated. They therefore could not get high level jobs and were mostly laborers. In fact, they worked on the Central Pacific Railway line, making up at to 90% of the workers. This is because they were willing to take lower wages than others. Their economy situations changed as the years went by because they took advantage of the cropping up frontier towns and set up thriving businesses such as laundry services, restaurants and the like. They also found work in other areas of economy and worked in agriculture and mining. In comparison, subsequent immigrants did not face intense...
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...Americanization of Immigrants and Native Americans In the late 1800’s immigration has increased immensely. Not only was the population growing but substantial problems went along with the immigration. In restatement, the immigrants came to America to find better opportunity upon a future they want to achieve. The types of immigrants were the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc. These people wanted to seek for an opportunity to escape their religion, harsh government in their native country, and own land. As the population grew, the society had to change and step up to it’s capability of becoming a stable nation. Some of the significant things that occurred in the life of an immigrant in the society were economical and political problems. Some of the economical changes the immigrants have made, for example were the jobs they had to make money. Many of the 25 million immigrants that entered America between 1866 and 1915 became factory workers. However, for immigrants in the cities, factory work was one of the few options available. Agriculture jobs and factory jobs were the main areas of employment for a lot of former slaves and immigrants. In factories, they had poor lighting, unsanitary conditions, and the jobs were highly dangerous. Women, men and children were able to work in these conditions for up to 12 hours per day. As soon as one became ill or died another person would step over into their past job without a second thought. Another problem that occurred was the population...
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...Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century. Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention...
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...School of Nursing EN1320 Composition I: Dr. Moon October 26, 2015 There are a lot of undocumented immigrants who come to the United States (US) for a better life for themselves and families. As it is shown on a circle graph by Cynthia S. Becker in 2005, “immigrants come from different countries; for example, 6.2 million 56% come from Mexico, 2.5 million 22% come from Latin America, 1.5 million 13% come from Asia, 0.6 million 6% come from Europe and Canada, and 0.4 million 3% come from Africa or other countries” Birthplace of illegal immigrants in U.S., 2005 (2007). These undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the US for a variety of reasons. These reasons are, immigrants help boost the nation’s economy, it helps families access health care, and families maintain united. First, undocumented immigrants help boost the nation’s economy. One may ask why or even how? The immigrants who come here, come for one purpose, to make money. According to Bluestein, “From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native-born startup rate declined by 10 percent, to a 30-year low. Immigrants today are more than twice as likely to start a business as native-born citizens” Bluestein, A. (2015). If it were not for some of the undocumented immigrants, the US would probably not have a majority of jobs. Second, having undocumented immigrants in the US help families access health care. Many families do not have healthcare due to not having...
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...Children of Immigrants A familiar story of the American narrative and a great theme in psychology of second generation is that the children of immigrants believe that they are the main reason for immigration of their parents who in most cases stake their hopes for future on the success of their children. Perceiving the sacrifices that are made by parents, seemingly on their behalf, not any amount of guilt toward their parents touches the children and drives their motivation to obtain a dynamic which in turn can offer the immigrant parents some level of psychological control over their offspring. Growing up in the immigrant families is usually marked by discordant acculturation, when the children’s learning of new ways and simultaneous loss of immigrant culture outstrips that of parents. When this occurs, linguistic and cultural gaps among them can exacerbate the intergenerational conflicts; make the children feel ashamed of their parents as they attempt to blend with the native friends, and lead to reversal roles, as the children take up adult roles earlier by dint of situations. All families of immigrants must contend with “stress and storm” adolescence and “generation gaps”, and the acculturation to new society. This is often a conflictive and complex process that is full of fault lines that are non-reducible to simplistic elaborations of parental pressure or peer pressure. Nevertheless, at the heart of the matter is the relation between children and their immigrant parents,...
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...side they say that legalizing illegal immigrants can help boost the economy and even complement the U.S workforce. On the other, they say that legalization will only entice more foreigners to cross the border illegally. Whatever the opinion, this is an important issue that has been brought up for a long time and no definitive solution has been implemented. This issue is one that makes you wonder whether legalizing immigrants would be good, bad or the impact it would have on the economy. The legalization of illegal immigrants might take a long time, but when it happens, many good things can come from this. Many families will be brought together instead of being torn apart. Those that have special work skills will be able to find a job in their specialty. Millions of people will be able to file taxes. Many young adults will have the ability to go to college and develop skills that will help this country go forward. People won’t have to do anything in secrecy; they will have the ability to do almost anything freely. Many good things can come from this legalization, but the question that remains is when? There are many people who argue that the legalization process is a bad idea. One of the biggest worries is that once they are legalized they will become eligible for all the benefits a citizen is eligible for. Another worry is that they would become competition for the natural born citizens, most likely leaving them without a job. If an immigrant becomes legalized their relatives...
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