IMMIGRATION IN THE

CONTEMPORARY WORLD
REALIZED BY : CEBAN DIANA
BIVOL CAROLINA ,GROUP 104 RI
CHECHED BY : DAMASCHIN INA,LECTOR

CONTENTS:
CONCEPT OF IMMIGRATION
A HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN THE USA
ECONOMIC OPPORTTUNITY
11 FACTS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS
THE FIRST 10 COUNTRIES BY IMMIGRANT
POPULATION
TODAYS IMMIGRANTS

CONCEPT OF IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATIONIS THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE INTO A DESTINATIONCOUNTRY
TO WHICH THEY ARE NOT NATIVE OR DO NOT POSSESS ITSCITIZENSHIPIN
ORDER TO SETTLE OR RESIDE THERE, ESPECIALLY ASPERMANENT RESIDENTS
ORNATURALIZEDCITIZENS, OR TO TAKE-UPEMPLOYMENTAS A
MIGRANT WORKEROR TEMPORARILY AS AFOREIGN WORKER.
IMMIGRANTS ARE MOTIVATED TO LEAVE THEIR FORMER COUNTRIES OF
CITIZENSHIP OR HABITUAL RESIDENCE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS,
INCLUDING A LACK OF LOCAL ACCESS TORESOURCES, A DESIRE FOR
ECONOMICPROSPERITY, TO FIND OR ENGAGE IN PAID WORK, TO BETTER
THEIRSTANDARD OF LIVING,FAMILY REUNIFICATION,RETIREMENT,
CLIMATE OR ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED MIGRATION,EXILE, ESCAPE FROM
PREJUDICE, CONFLICT OR NATURAL DISASTER, OR SIMPLY THE WISH TO
CHANGE ONE'SQUALITY OF LIFE.

A HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN THE

USA
THE UNITED STATES HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LAND OF IMMIGRATION. SOME 12,000 YEARS AGO,
THE FIRST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CROSSED THE ICE BRIDGE CONNECTING ASIA TO NORTH
AMERICA, YET IT WASN'T UNTIL THE END OF THE 15TH CENTURY THAT EUROPEANS SET
THEIR EYES ON THE NEW WORLD IN NUMBERS. THE FRENCH AND SPANISH WERE THE FIRST
TO ESTABLISH SETTLEMENTS BEFORE THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH, AMONG OTHERS, FOUNDED
THEIR FIRST PERMANENT COLONIES.ON THE EVE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE LAND
WAS ALREADY A KALEIDOSCOPE OF LANGUAGES AND ETHNICITIES.
EVER SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES, IMMIGRATION LAWS HAVE BEEN PUT IN
PLACE, REFORMED, DISMANTLED. THESE LAWS REFLECTED THE NEEDS OF THE TIME, BUT
OFTEN REPRESENT POLITICAL STATEMENTS OF PEOPLES' PERCEPTIONS, WHICH HAVE CYCLED
BACK AND FORTH FROM FAVORABLE TO HOSTILE. THIS TIMELINE LOOKS AT THE
IMMIGRATION POLICIES AND ASSOCIATED RULES PUT IN PLACE, FROM THE FOREFATHERS'
FIRST STEPS, TO THE CHALLENGES FACED IN TODAY'S GLOBALIZED WORLD.

ECONOMIC OPPORTTUNITY
GOING TO NORTH AMERICA BROUGHT THE
PROMISE OF CHEAP LAND AND FREEDOM OF
ENTERPRISE. INCOMING FARMERS, FISHERMEN,
TRADESMEN, SHIPBUILDERS AND CRAFTSMEN ALL
FOUND WORK.

THEY SET UP THEIR OWN INSTITUTIONS AND SELFGOVERNING BODIES WITH MINIMAL SUPPORT OR
INTERFERENCE FROM THE CROWN, AT LEAST AT
FIRST. INDEPENDENCE OF RESOURCES (THE
COLONIES PRODUCED NEARLY EVERYTHING THEY
NEEDED) AND TRADE AMONG THE COLONIES AND
WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LED TO
PROSPERITY.

11 FACTS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS

1. MORE THAN 1 MILLION IMMIGRANTS BECAME LEGAL PERMANENT
RESIDENTS (LPRS) OF THE UNITED STATES IN 2011.
2. OF THE NEW US RESIDENTS, 14% CAME FROM MEXICO, 7.9% FROM CHINA,
AND 6.4% FROM INDIA.
3. AS OF 2013, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAD REMOVED NEARLY 2
MILLION IMMIGRANTS, THE HIGHEST NUMBER UNDER ANY PRESIDENT.
TEACH YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE UNJUST TREATMENT OF
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. SIGN UP FORFACES OF IMMIGRATION.
4. THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS ALLOWS PRIORITY TO FOREIGN NATIONALS
WHO HAVE A CLOSE FAMILY RELATIONSHIP WITH A US CITIZEN OR LPR,
HAVE NEEDED WORK SKILLS, HAVE REFUGEE OR ASYLEE STATUS, OR ARE
NATIVE OF COUNTRIES WITH LOW IMMIGRATION RATES TO THE US.
5. EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN HALF OF NEW LPRS ARE CURRENT RESIDENTS
WHOSE STATUS IS CHANGED TO PERMANENT.

6 INCLUDING ORPHANS, NEARLY 8% OF ALL NEW LPRS IN 2011 WERE CHILDREN

WITH
IMMEDIATE RELATIVES AS CURRENT CITIZENS IN THE US, AND 33.2% OF
IMMIGRANTS WERE UNDER THE AGE OF 25.
7

BETWEEN 2009 AND 2011, MORE THAN 70% OF IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM ASIA
AND
NORTH AMERICA EVERY YEAR.

MORE THAN 550,000 LPRS IN 2011 WERE WOMEN AND MORE THAN 600,000
WERE MARRIED INDIVIDUALS.

BY 2026, IT IS PREDICTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE A SHORTAGE OF

20 MILLION WORKERS.

10 IN THE US, 5 STATES HAVE BECOME MINORITY-MAJORITY, WHICH MEANS THAT

LESS THAN HALF OF THE POPULATION OF THAT STATE IS NON-HISPANIC WHITE
AND THE MINORITIES COMBINED HAVE BECOME THE MAJORITY.
11 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2012, THE MAJORITY OF BABIES UNDER AGE 1 WERE
BLACK, HISPANIC, ASIAN, OR ANOTHER NON-WHITE RACE.

THE FIRST 10 COUNTRIES BY IMMIGRANT

POPULATION
AS
OF
2013,
THEUNITED STATESHAS
THE
LARGEST
AGGREGATE POPULATION OF MIGRANTS OF ANY COUNTRY AND
CHINAHAS THE WORLD'S LOWEST POPULATION OF MIGRANTS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF ITS POPULATION.
IN 2013, THE LAST TIME THE UNITED NATIONS PUBLISHEDDATA
ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, 3.2 PERCENT OF THE WORLDS
POPULATION LIVED IN A COUNTRY OTHER THAN THE ONE IN
WHICH THEY WERE BORN. IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU JUST HOW
LITTLE THAT FIGURE HAS CHANGED IN RECENT DECADES IN
1960,
IT
WAS
2.6
PERCENT
OF
THE
GLOBE.

Country

Number of immigrants

Percentageof
totalnumberof
immigrants
intheworld

Immigrantsas
percentageof
nationalpopulation

United States

45,785,090

19.8

14.3

Russia

11,048,064

4.8

7.7

Germany

9,845,244

4.3

11.9

Saudi Arabia

9,060,433

3.9

31.4

United Arab Emirates

7,826,981

3.4

83.7

United Kingdom

7,824,131

3.4

12.4

France

7,439,086

3.2

11.6

Canada

7,284,069

3.1

20.7

Australia

6,468,640

2.8

27.7

Spain

6,466,605

2.8

13.8

Italy

5,721,457

2.5

9.4

TODAYS IMMIGRANTS
BELOW ARE THE FACTS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS TODAY: WHO THEY ARE, WHERE
THEY LIVE, AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY.
IMMIGRANTS LARGELY ARRIVE THROUGH LEGAL CHANNELS
THERE WERE 39.9 MILLION FOREIGN-BORN PEOPLE IN THE UNITED
STATES IN 2010.

44 PERCENT WERE NATURALIZED CITIZENS.

24 PERCENT WERE LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENTS.
29 PERCENT WERE UNAUTHORIZED MIGRANTS.
3 PERCENT WERE TEMPORARY LEGAL RESIDENTS (SUCH AS STUDENTS OR
TEMPORARY WORKERS).