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The integration of immigrants or migrant integration is the process of social integration of immigrants and their descendants in a society. Central aspects of social integration are language , education , the labour market , participation , values and identification within the host country.
Immigrants tend to be more highly skilled than non-foreign populations. [5] However, it is common for a highly skilled worker to be limited to lowly-skilled work upon immigrating to South Africa. [6] The most common sectors immigrants work in are casual work, restaurant, manufacturing, and construction.
[68] [69] Hispanic immigrants suffered job losses during the late-2000s recession, [70] but since the recession's end in June 2009, immigrants posted a net gain of 656,000 jobs. [71] Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010, [72] and over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008.
I was given the opportunity to interview undocumented Latin American immigrants. Some of the stories I was told were tragic, some enraging.
In describing the American identity, Huntington first contests the notion that the country is, as often repeated, "a nation of immigrants". He writes that America's founders were not immigrants, but settlers, since British settlers came to North America to establish a new society, as opposed to migrating from one existing society to another one as immigrants do.
Second in importance was the Committee for Immigrants in America, which helped fund the Division of Immigrant Education in the federal Bureau of Education. [14] While John Foster Carr, a publisher and propagandist for Americanization, was convinced that the American public library was the most effective Americanization force.
IRCA, as proposed in Congress, was projected to give amnesty to about 1,000,000 workers in the country illegally. In practice, amnesty for about 3,000,000 immigrants already in the country was granted, mostly from Mexico. Legal Mexican immigrant family numbers were 2,198,000 in 1980, 4,289,000 in 1990 (includes IRCA), and 7,841,000 in 2000.
While the essay was an important contribution to economics and population growth, recent attention has focused on the final two paragraphs. Franklin was alarmed by the influx of German immigrants to Pennsylvania. The German immigrants were lacking in a liberal political tradition, the English language, and Anglo-American culture.