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Compare And Contrast The Sociological Perspective Of Immigration And Multiculturalism

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The Sociological Perspective of Immigration and Multiculturalism
From the sociological angle, the issue of immigration and its effects on national identity and multiculturalism can be viewed from a completely different perspective. The current regime wars and other conflicts across the world have caused more human displacement and suffering than did World War II. Even as refugees move towards Europe, many die on their way along the Mediterranean region. Still, other suffer o their death in European soil. For socialists, solidarity with other suffering human beings is the only solution to the refugee and immigration crisis, regardless of other concerns such as national identity and multiculturalism. To socialists, the problem to be solved is …show more content…

For instance, in Britain, it has been expected that the immigrant minority would simply pick up British values such as forbearance, impartiality before law, and the supremacy of democratic elections. Unfortunately, just a small portion of the immigrants have embraced all British values with a sizeable number giving values of liberalism and tolerance a wide berth. Instead of promoting the culture of the indigenous people, British authorities such as local city councils have in fact aided in the erosion of native cultures, replacing them with new immigrant cultures (Gibson, 2002). For instance, the Bradford city council has a policy that gives every minority group the right its uniqueness, traditions, faith, cuisine and …show more content…

The main causes of the current immigrant crisis are regime wars in countries such as Syria and conflicts by terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, Al-Shaba, Boko Haram and ISIS among others. Some immigrants also move into Europe and the US in search of employment and asylum to escape political persecution at home. Besides the war-ravaged nations of Middle East, the other origin of most of the immigrants to Europe and USA is northern Africa, which has been significantly unstable since the Arab spring uprisings. In particular, 2015 has been characterized by refuge ad immigrant influx not only in Western Europe but also in other regions such as North America. Multiculturalism and loss of national identity are some of the challenges associated with migration that the world currently faces. The increased refugee and migration crisis in recent time has elicited numerous opinions, which can be identified in public debates across the globe. On one side of the debate, sociologists and socialist societies assert that each individual, nation and the international society must play its role in reducing or eliminating the suffering of refugees and humans. In other words, governments and international organisations such as the EU and the UN must play their roles in protecting human rights by providing food, medicine and shelter to refugees and other immigrants. Socialists in the debate also

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The Syrian problem is growing into the biggest migration crisis in Europe. At the moment, there are over 9 million refugees seeking asylum. In 2012, when the refugees mostly fled to neighboring countries and Turkey,

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Introduction Informative, contemplative, and different are three words to describe “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco from Rereading America. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” talks about unauthorized immigration. More specifically, this source talks about the other side of the issue of unauthorized immigrants; the human face of it all. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” depicts the monster from one of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s thesis in the article, “Monster Culture (7 Theses).” The monster seen in the source “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” is the one that Cohen talks about in his fourth thesis, “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference.”

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On November 11, 2015, The New York Times Editorial Board wrote an editorial titled “Don’t Leave Refugees Out in the Cold.” This text went into detail about the current problems refugees are encountering in different countries, mostly ones in Europe. They discuss how many refugees are trying to get out of their war ridden countries and how many are actually getting help. They talk about how much money and supplies they are supposed to receive and how much they actually see. In the end the authors give a strong argument as to why European countries need to help the refugees.

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Journalist, Ahmed Agdas, in his article, “Why Taking in Refugees Is Still the Right Thing to Do” argues why we should let the refugees in. The author uses rhetorical strategies to make his argument stronger and to communicate to the readers. Ahmed Agdas is a young politician, journalist, and a student. Agdas’s purpose is to convey the idea that we need to let the refugees in so they don’t die on the border. In today’s society the word refugee has become omnipresent.

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Immigration The international movement of people into a destination country of where they don’t obtain citizenship in or where they’re not native of in order to settle or reside there is known as immigration. In many cases, the newcomers often stay in the country they have migrated to as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take jobs as migrant workers or temporarily as a foreign worker. The laws and regulations of immigration has been a conflict for decades. Immigration laws have resulted in a situation where many illegal “aliens” are either deported or legalized.

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Significant efforts to show the diversity and dynamic morals of the British society were demonstrated during the first term of the new Labour Government when they came into power in 1997 (Modood, 2007). Since the early 1990’s there has been substantial increases in net immigration from a diverse range of countries, increasing the diversity of ethnicities with the UK (Vertovec, 2007). Between 1993 and 2004 the number of foreigners within the UK increased by 40%, demonstrating the scale of this migration (Vertovec,

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In much of the western world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has ‘failed’ and that governments who once embraced a multicultural approach to diversity are turning away, adopting a strong emphasis on civic integration. As of today however, at least a third of Australian citizens now have ancestors other than British or Irish and Australia has absorbed immigrants from over 240 countries and places around the globe. Our multicultural society is a product of the successive waves of mass immigration following the Second World War. Australia once was an Anglo-Saxon preserve that attempted to exclude people of colour through restricting immigration to people of British or Western Europe background.

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Immigrants have played a fundamental role in history for the cultural development of many countries. Words like “Globalization” have been coined because of the spread of different cultures throughout the world. However, how does a country have to behave when it faces people having different cultures? Which equilibrium has to be established between the two?

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Such evidence includes “Economic Refugee” which are known as “people fleeing their homeland as a result of economic insecurity” (23). By providing this linguistic framing, it allows the authors to develop their reasons for keeping the use of frames in debate. The reasons provided are built upon the definition the frame evokes, rather than being negative, the definitions of the new frames are positive. Ferguson and Lakoff provide the reason for such linguistic framing in that “refugees are worthy of compassion” (23), and such use will allow a more civilized debate. By providing a more humanitarian approach to debate, as the authors suggest, it will allow for more solutions that do not attack the individual.

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This entails how the notion of problematizing refugees and somehow ‘excluding’ them from the society is influenced by the society’s perception of normal, and thereby what they identify as acceptable and unacceptable (find source). It can thus be argued, that a potential increase of refugees in a society could be dismissed and not regarded as part of their ‘normal life’, thereby, portraying it as a problem in need of solution. However, once again, this correspond to the notion of the social construction of refugees that the society

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Immigration, overall, is a critical factor in the creation of nations and cultures. The United States, for example, was founded by immigrants seeking to escape the oppression imposed by the British Empire. Since then, the United States has been described as a “melting pot” of all cultures, as immigrants continue to shape the comprehensive American culture. Yet, despite all the positives of immigration, it is not a human right, but rather a privilege. This is not to advocate for a ban on immigration, but rather to support the sovereignty of

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This in turn led to the need of about 13 million Syrians to receive humanitarian assistance. To their avail, several countries such as some major European nations, whom have given the Syrian people a refuge in their land, especially Germany. Although the help that these countries have given to Syria has saved hundreds of Syrians, more countries are needed to provide refuge to the Syrians since these European countries are already reaching full capacity and will sadly, not be able to accept more refugees. This paper is addressed to the Swedish government to join the humanitarian effort that few countries are providing and kindly consider providing the devastated refugees with a refuge. First of all, Syrian refugees are a golden opportunity for Sweden on the economic scale.

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It’s been two years since we saw the photo of the dead Syrian child - Alan Kurdi as he washed up on the shoreline. Two years since his sacrifice was left in vain. The image of his visceral death brought world-wide attention to the brunt reality of the migrant crisis, to the point where this viral image was seen by millions and changed the stances of many governments on the refugee crisis. But the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) insists that not enough is being done by the international community to help and prevent the mortalities to refugees, be it by drowning, disease, or malnutrition. Since this photo emerged almost two years ago, 8500 more migrants have died or disappeared on their perilous journey to Europe and many more soon to come.

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