Britain also saw a significant rise in immigration from its colonies after World War Two as people from Asia, Africa and the West Indies took advantage of their right to settle in the United Kingdom. Britain adopted a different approach to the French in recognising the cultural diversity of its population, recognising that differences in cultures do exist and that they should be respected. However, many people in Britain argued that cultural diversity was leading to the destruction of British culture and traditions and led to rising racial tensions. Like in France where racial tensions led to rioting in the cités, Britain suffered rioting in 1981 in Brixton in London and Toxteth in Liverpool. Immigrants in France accused the police of repression in immigrant communities.
One of these policies is the divorce act 1969; which has made it easier for couples to get divorced. Due to this, marriage has become less sacred which has made the family unit weaker. Couples may get a divorce instead of trying hard in the relationship to make it better. Another law affecting the family is the new deal 1998; which makes it easier for lone mothers to get back into paid work. This was introduced by the Labour party, who Lewis argues have taken on the idea of ‘social investment in children’ seriously and have realised family forms are changing.
They take all of our and jobs and money and send it back to their families in their country of origin. Not only do they exploit our economy by sending money to their families, but they are reluctant to learn and speak the language of this country, English. I believe that most, if not all, citizens of the United States would agree that getting rid of Illegal Immigrants would increase economical and social aspects of our nation. In order to solve this problem, one must start at the root. First, we must prevent all illegal immigrants from entering the United States.
However this may cause tension between their status and religion as Hinduism, as most religions, promote living life simple and free of worldly desires. In order to resolve this extravagant rituals and modern gurus who the middles class can turn to legitimises their lifestyle and status’ allowing them to adjust to the globalised consumer capitalism. Marxist however would take a negative view on the relationship between globalisation and religion in India. They see religion as another institution which maintains capitalist society and legitimises the poor treatment of the working class. For example in Hinduism there is a caste system which categorises individuals into one of five groups, the lowest of the five named ‘the untouchables’ who are extremely poor and
Some of these important issues are immigration, concern of becoming a monarchy, and foreign policy. One of the many underlying issues that brought about the debate over the Alien and sedition acts was immigration. The immigrants that came to America usually sided with the Democratic-Republican Party. Because of this, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts was the Naturalization Act. This increased the number of years required for immigrants to qualify for U.S citizens from 5 years to 14 years.
However, this was not the case. Many Immigrants were flocking to America to escape from poverty, persecution and revolutions in their home countries. This created a lot of hostility as Americans feared that immigrants coming into the United States would have an effect on american society, socially, religiously, economically and politically. Historians have argued over what was the main cause was for growing hostility. Contributing factors are; the changing nature of immigration and entrenched WASP racism, pre-existing legislation before 1920s, WWI and isolationism, economic fears, social and religious fears, and political fears.
• As a result of the Salmon report they recognised they should control the immigration leading to them introducing the commonwealth immigration act 1962 to control immigration into Britain. Many people saw it as being racist as it would restrict entrants of their ethnic origins. • The Labour party opposed the Commonwealth Immigration act but in 1968 imposed their own. Both parties accepted they needed to limit the number of foreigners allowed to immigrate to England. As a result of the Immigration act the two years before it was put into place people fled to England in a hurry which led to many people wanting a full block of the number of those entering.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
There is a division in opinions regarding migration and the different views are heavily politically argues and have also become an everyday household discourse. Recently the debate has become frequently discussed and has intensified due to the UK opening its borders to eight Eastern European countries known as the A8 countries in 2004. This has provided the UK with a positive net migration and has created much heated dispute surrounding various issues regarding migration. Government statistics, newspaper articles and political blogging sites often use different systems to actually define a migrant. This can be confusing and can also have a profound effect on the opinion of those who depend on statistical data for evidence.
The benefit provided by this plan to the struggling economy is a convincing point to ponder. The plan does have a major drawback and it is that we have done this before in 1986 and the illegal immigrant problem only got worse. If we continue to allow people to break our laws by living in this country illegally, and then reward them with citizenship we run the potential of increasing the number of people in the future that move her illegally thinking it is only a matter of time until we grant them citizenship, no matter their