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American Immigration

Introduction

Migration is a key element of modern society, bringing benefits and conflicts both to the receiving places and to the places of origin and raising issues of security, social measurements and multiculturalism in our globalised world (John, 2008).

Most immigrants came to America for economic reasons. Immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Latin America came willingly. Throughout American history, immigrants often worked low-paying, dangerous jobs that other people refused to do. Immigration has a profound impact on the United States, which throughout its history has been a destination for migrants from across the globe. Immigration touches on myriad facets of American life - ranging from the economic and political to the cultural. According to the most recently available data, how many immigrants are in the United States today (Thomas, 2009)?

Immigration and USA Economy

Immigrants for a long time have come to America with the dream of becoming successful; working their way up from the bottom and eventually securing a comfortable position within American's society for the future of their family. Doing so seems straightforward enough, but in reality, it's not so simple. Regarding this American dream we examine both the lives of legal and illegal immigrants as well as lower class native American inhabitants (most likely 2nd generation and above immigrants) and their role in America's growing economy.

Knowing brings up the involvement of illegal immigrants in the American economy. Several of these illegal immigrants are being smuggled by boat. Upon arrival, each immigrant owes their smuggler around .his, surprisingly enough, occurs quite frequently today as human trafficking and illegal immigration grows. These immigrants would take up below minimum-wage jobs with factories in order to pay their debts; however, not all of the immigrants achieved success. Several immigrants actually stayed within range of their job, working day by day to get by and pay off their debt. As a result, immigrants' enclaves formed around wherever there were extremely low wage jobs. These enclaves differ from other enclaves in that there was barely any interaction with the outside society(Llona, 2011).

Most legal immigrants differed from their undocumented counterparts purely by their interaction with the society outside of their enclave. They may have also worked low wage jobs, but their interactions, social and economical, occurred at times outside of their enclave. In this group, assimilation and outward interaction culminate into an opportunity at upward mobility not easily present within the tight-knit enclaves of the undocumented immigrants. Research mentions that how these immigrants (1st, 2nd, and future generations) played their part in America's business sectors, specifically within New York City. The vast majorities of these employees are young adults and most likely 2nd generation immigrants or further. They are most likely assimilated and used to the diverse society in which they live in. As a result, companies are able to hire workers of different backgrounds without any racial or ethnic conflict. Such an economy rarely existed in the early 1900s where racial segregation occurred on multiple levels, especially within the workplace. Just ...