Globalization And Immigration Analysis

In order to understand how globalization continues to promote this deviant immigrant notion in the United States, one must understand how it contributes to immigration as a whole. As one may recall, globalization relies on the opening of international borders which allows for the facilitation of new business opportunities abroad. These new opportunities create jobs across the globe as they incentivize immigration into new countries to a fill portion of the newly created jobs. Simultaneously, new business opportunities and trade deals also establish connections for individuals to arrive illegally to new countries. Both documented and undocumented immigrants enter these new nations in search of opportunities that were not present in their country
According to Franko (2013), over time our society develops this ideology dividing groups into an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ phenomenon. This perspective not only gets carried amongst societies already developed groups, for example, women and men, young and old, but also becomes integrated into nationals versus foreign. When such an ideology flourishes within a nation, those who identify as the ‘us’ or ‘we’ tend to become fearful of the other. Once this occurs, the other becomes targeted with negative connotations and stigma, resulting in them appearing as criminal or deviant (Franko, 2013). This notion of being a deviant immigrant has been routed in the history of the United States for centuries as mentioned previously and continues to be prevalent, especially within our current political state. It is quite astonishing to notice that whenever a group is infringed within the United States, it is always done on the basis of fear. This could mean fear of criminal activity, fear of losing funds to the other party, or fear of political takeover. Regardless of the matter, fear becomes submerged into how the other appears to the ‘us’ group, allowing them to be perceived as criminal for not meeting certain arbitrary social
This is considered to be the first immigration law developed by the United States to bar one specific group because of race or nationality. Prior to this law being passed, Chinese immigrants had settled primarily in California, where the height of the gold rush was occurring. They typically worked as miners, but turned to cooking and laboring for other means of income. Those who worked in the mines faced racial hostilities from their white counterparts, whom would try to drive all “foreigners,” including Mexican, South American, and Chinese out from the region. Some Chinese immigrants had signed contracts in their native land to work for a set period of time at substandard wages. Miners and other Californians usually targeted them with abuse, and politicians exploited the situation for their own benefit. Some of these political officials included Governor John Bigler and State Senator Philip Roach, who denounced the Chinese and urged restrictions on their entry as early as 1852. Another politician named James Blaine, who was a vigorous advocate for Chinese Exclusion, had mentioned that Chinese immigrants were like a disease, and it is his and other Americans duty, to rid the country of such toxicity. That they will end up corrupting the United States, and make the county impure (Gyory, 1998).