Immigrations Social Economic Impact: 1 Running Head: Immigrations Social Economic Impact

Immigrations Social Economic Impact; An In-depth Understanding of The Economic Foundation Behind Immigration.

Queens University of Charlotte Dr: Nancy Clare Morgan

Johnathan Florez

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Thesis Statement: Immigration is not the foundational problem of the economic challenges that the current work force faces, but rather an underlying result of the need for companies to reduce cost in order to be profitable.

Literature Review:

Immigration has been an underlying tension since the inception of the U.S economy; United States has been culturally diverse with different social class, races, and gender that all form the labor forces in all level of industries. The following 30 page Academic Press dating from 1985 offers a view of when immigration became a prominent conflict in labor forces specifically Hispanic immigration. (George J Bojas, 1985) Opinion is important in considering the different perspectives and obtaining an objective description of the situation being researched. The following book contains statistical numbers of immigration from various minorities groups such as; African, Asian, European, and Latin American. These statistics are used to credit the reasoning that diversity creates a multidisciplinary perspective in social economic and the United States work force. (Jacobson, 1998) Immigration and Illegal-Immigration are two concepts that can be intermingled and sometimes confused, this article contains informations on the relevant information that entails what are the policymakers and American fears to job loss to illegal immigrants. The following excerpt also indicates that the United States declining unskilled labor force is due to outsourcing rather than domestic unskilled unemployment. (Grossman, 1984) Pro-Immigration current source of information that includes policy decisions as well as fact based opinions that conclude that we need immigration in our economy to be more productive and be competitive with other global economies of scale. The diversity provides a solution enriching the American economy rather than the detriment that its sought out to be (Philippe Legrain, 2007)

Immigrations Social Economic Impact: 3 Time equates a perfect timeline to observe the development of an issue such as immigration, but most interesting is to consider how the current native minorities specifically Hispanics feel about current incoming immigration and whether it is affecting the labor force and creating a competitive environment. This abstract from the book Latinos and the Economy explains that there is very little evidence showing that immigration reduces native employment and earnings. (Yuksel, 2011) The United States is aware about how unfavorable unskilled immigration is viewed, but surprisingly according to an article by Stephen Moore, High skilled jobs are seen in a positive light and incentivized for engineers and highly technical jobs. United States promotes my providing visas to incoming immigrants that offer skills in high tech industries. (Moore, 1998) Within the social economic the article by Leisy J. Abrego examines how there is a stigmatism of first generation or 1.5 generation Latino Americans whom come from undocumented parents and explains how this creates barriers. This although not specifically pertaining to the thesis statement provides some background information on how immigration is perceived by immigrants themselves (Abrego, 2011) Exploring the difficulties from Latino immigration can glimpse as to the difficulties that many cultures find when they migrate for a better life. This issue by Anita I. Drever and Sarah A. Blue talks about social and economic disadvantages that immigrants find when relocating. Simple things such as public transportation or license to drive creates issues far more difficult than the general public understands. Although this article seems to go on a tangent it actually re-grasp the general picture as to why and what is the problem with immigration itself. (Anita I. Drever, 2009)

Immigrations Social Economic Impact: 4 Works Cited Abrego, L. J. (2011). Legal Consciousness of Undocumented Latinos:. Fear and Stigma as Barriers to Claims-Making for First- and 1.5-Generation Immigrants , 2. Anita I. Drever, S. A. (2009). Surviving sin papeles in post-Katrina New Orleans:. an exploration of the challenges facing undocumented Latino immigrants in new and re-emerging Latino destinations , 89-102. George J Bojas, M. T. (1985). Hispanics In The U.S Economy. Academic Press , 30. Grossman, J. B. (1984, Jan). Illegal Immigrants and Domestic Employment. Industrial and Labor Relations Review , pp. pp. 240-251. Jacobson, D. (1998). The Imigration Reader; American in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Moore, S. (1998). Immigration Reform Means More High-Tech Jobs. Philippe Legrain, J. J. (2007). Immigrants:. Your Country Needs Them . Yuksel, A. K. (2011). Do Recent Latino Immigrants Compete for Jobs with Native Hispanics and Earlier Latino Immigrants? Washington D.C: Georgetown Univeristy.