May 21, 2009
Mrs. Foster
Human Geography 4
Chapter 8 Migration Research Paper.
Migration affects the lives of people and the character of places. There are many different types of push factors and pull factors about immigration that brings immigrants to the United States. Including economic, political, and cultural ways. Immigration has benefited the immigrants and the United States in many ways also. There are a lot of push factors that can make a family to leave their country. The three types of push factors are Political, Environmental and Economic. The political push factors are war and persecution. Persecution is an unfair treatment of others because of who they are or what they believe. For Example, Ahmed …show more content…
The Economic Impacts (jobs) is that we depend on the immigrants for labor. We have high skilled immigrants. They built roads and railroads across the continent. They fill jobs in mines and factories. The high skilled workers work as doctors, professors and computer programmers. They also become athletes, musicians, or artists. Others start new businesses. The cultural impacts are that immigrants bring new foods to the United States like sushi, bagels, tacos and pot stickers. It also expands the American knowledge. There are new holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, Chinese New Year and Cinco de Mayo. They learn new music, arts and stories. Immigrants help their new neighbors to learn more about the World. The Economic impacts (taxes) is that Native born workers immigrants who work pay taxes. Immigrant taxes help schools, libraries, and health clinics. California and Texas cost of providing welfare services are very …show more content…
The Economic Impacts is the loss of such well-educated people. The Social Impacts is they send money back to their families and the payments are called remittances. Some negatives about this are that when young people try to find jobs in another country, families are splintered. Family members may remain separated for many years. Emigrants sometimes don’t return back to their homeland. On the positive side is that the money helps families, schools and improvements in community. The money emigrants send home can have some positive effects. The family may use remittances to care for aging parents or to send their children to school. For Example, Ricardo Flores sends money back to Guanajuanto, and they want to collect money for a new ambulance. This was a way of helping those in Mexico who cant realize their dreams in America. He helped improve his community by trying to collect money for a new ambulance for them in Mexico. The Political Impacts are that refugees’ work hard to bring democracy to their homeland and many refugees have to come to the United States to flee political