...Business, Government and Society | Singapore, A Nation of Immigrants | | | CONTENTS Introduction 3 - 5 1.1 Background 3 - 4 1.2 Identification of Issues 4 - 5 1.3 Current Situation 5 Stakeholder Analysis 6 - 7 Why are Foreigners Needed in Singapore? 8 - 10 3.1 Government Perspective 8 - 9 3.1.1An Ethical Perspective 9 - 10 3.2 Businesses’ Perspective 10 The Need to Address the Issue 10 Existing Government Actions 11 - 13 * 5.1 Implementations 11 5.2 Approach in Issue Management Through Implementations 12 - 13 5.3 Analysis of Government Policies 13 Recommendations 14 - 17 * 6.1 Government’s Perspective 14 - 15 6.2 Businesses’ Perspective15 - 16 6.3 Society’s Perspective 17 Conclusion 18 References 19 - 20 Appendices Appendix A: Compiled comments from citizens regarding their concerns on foreigners 1. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Background Singapore’s long history of immigration started from the 2nd century AD when the first settlers arrived on the island. Since then, the country has grown and is now a melting pot of approximately 5 million people made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Asians of various descents, and Caucasians. As shown in Figure 1, the number of foreigners working and studying in Singapore makes up roughly 37% of the entire population in 2010. (Singapore Department of Statistics, 2010) In August 2001, then PM Goh Chock Tong urged Singaporeans to accept the increasing number of foreigners in the city...
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...Life of a Immigrant Immigrants affecting the American economy and job chances. Many immigrants will do whatever it takes to get a job. Immigrants cross borders to get jobs to support their families. Many Americans are upset about how immigrants come over and receives a job before that do. For example, a reason why immigrants receives jobs before americans is because immigrants will accept less than minimum wage which deprives americans of even a chance at many jobs. In the film, the immigrants were working in the fields picking peppers and other vegetables for less pay. Another example, is that illegal’s will work for three to four dollars when americans will work for $7.25 or more. Not just the pay but immigrants will also work long hours in any conditions to help their families. So therefore americans los opportunities on jobs because they want more pay. Problems border patrol go through. Border patrol is a hard job to do. They make sacrifices every night trying to stop illegal aliens for getting free. For example, they face illegal immigrants running, jumping fences and sometimes fighting with them. However, they do not have to worry about just immigrants getting through. Border patrol has to also worry about their bosses yelling at them angrily , and possibly getting fired for not doing their jobs well enough. Patrol has complaints sometimes for being to aggressive with the immigrants. In the film, border patrol has to camp out all night in their chairs and in their trucks...
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...Immigrants make up a considerable proportion of the Canadian population. At the time of the 1991 Census, there were 4.3 million immigrants living in Canada, which is 16% of the total Canadian population. (See Graph 1, Immigrants as a Percentage of Canada's Population, 1901-1996) Over the past decades the level of immigration in Canada has increased from an average of 137 000 immigrants arriving in Canada in the 1960s to an average of about 200 000 in 1998. (See Table1, Annual Immigration Plan 1998) The largest share of immigrants admitted into Canada are in the economic class, in 1994, close to half of the new immigrants coming to Canada were economic class immigrants. Immigration is needed to maintain the Canadian population; "Canada will be an aging society with such a low birth rate that it will soon be unable to sustain its population without sustained immigration." Immigrants are a source of labour to the Canadian economy; immigrants are as likely as people born in Canada to be employed, and many are skilled workers that the Canadian economy is in need of. Business class, investor and entrepreneur immigrant help to provide job opportunities in the economy, and also generate more economic activities and income for the Canadian economy. "Analysis of data from the household/family file of the 1981 Canadian Census of Population reveals that, regardless of origin, immigrants benefit the Canadian-born population through the public treasury." Immigrants are an aid to the Canadian...
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...When it comes to the topic of immigrants, most of us will readily agree that they changed America. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of “how did they change America”. While some are convinced that America changed them, others believe that they changed America. Even though there are policies and regulations to prevent the influx of illegal immigrants in the United States; why are they not being enforced or do the people feel that illegal immigration should be ignored in the United States? Everyone in the United States of America is an immigrant or has descended from immigrants. The Constitution of the United States begins: “We the People of the United States…” Nonetheless, we know the United States was not and then and is not now made up of a single group of people. It is made up of many peoples. Immigration is defined as action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country; Migration is defined as the act or process of moving from one region or country to another; Populating is defined as a place with permanent residents or becoming a permanent resident in a place; and An immigrant is defined as an act of entering a new country to settle permanently the act of moving to or establish yourself in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. America is a nation of immigrants. Our American journey and our success would simply not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner...
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...Faiza Basharat September 25, 2015 Professor Schulz HIS59-Sec 11 The Amna Profile Big, brown eyes. That’s all you could see. Draped heavily in black fabric from her head to her toes. About 5’3 walking with a trolley filled with suitcases and her son along side her. Amna Arif, a 28 year old Muslim female at the airport in 1997 waiting for her husband to pick her up. Finally being able to reunite with her husband after five years of marriage. Amna had to stay behind with relatives in Pakistan until her husband made legal documents for her to live with him in the United States of America. After coming to America Amna lived with her husband, Mohammad Arif, and her son Aahil Arif in Brooklyn, New York. They lived in a two-bedroom apartment. Mohammad earned well being a carpet salesman in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They got along with all their neighbors. They shared the same daily responsibilities as all Americans around them. Amna was born and raised in Pakistan. She lived in and around a Muslim community her entire life, she was not accustomed to the diversity or the multicultural environment in New York. Fortunately she completed some college course work and understood and spoke Basic English. Before migrating to America, she lived with her parents and relatives nearby where family always accompanied her back home. She always had friends over that spoke the same language, dressed the same way and shared similar beliefs. Amna later got married to Mohammad...
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...Paola Quinones How has the neighborhood you grew up influenced you into being the person you are? The person I am today has to do a lot with the way I was raised. I was born in Chicago and raised in Chicago. When I was 10 I moved to Romeoville, IL. This transition was very difficult for me because never really had to experience change and finding out I had to scared me a lot. The only reason why my parents moved to the suburbs was because they wanted a better environment for my brother and I. The schooling is better here as well as the people here are a better influence. In Chicago I remember hearing about gangs killing people and drugs were always a number one topic. Even though I did go to a Private Catholic School in Chicago, the educational curriculum was not as great as the one I have here in Romeoville. In Chicago I was never allowed to go out because my parents were afraid of the dangers that could bring. All my family lived in Chicago, so finding out I might be moving hurt me a lot because that meant I was not going to be as close to my cousins anymore. It was always hard for me to make new friends in elementary school, making new friends in Romeoville was something that I had fear about as well. My parents were always scared that environment that was going on around me was going to affect me in a negative way, so they made the decision to move. At that time I never understood why, but now I do. Here in Romeoville I get better education and surrounded myself with...
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...American Cultural Values that are Promoted in Advertisement Advertising is the most influential institution of socialization in the modern society. It is all around us that we cannot run away from it. From the article, “Beauty…and the Beast of Advertising” stated that advertising is an over 100 billion dollar a year industry and affects all of us throughout our lives. We are exposed to over 2000 ads a day, aiming to persuade consumers to buy a certain product. American values are culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful that serve as broad guidelines for social living. In order to sell products, advertising has to appeal to people’s needs and prove how it can play a role in their lives. There are three American cultural values that are promoted in advertisement and those are beauty, work ethic and diversity. One of the American cultural values that is promoted in advertisement is beauty. Many woman are also obsessed living up to the beauty standard that advertisers set in place. In our society we grow up with perfection around us. We watch advertisement in the TV and look at ads,which have been photo-shopped into perfection. They can trick you into thinking the flawless model could be you if you buy their product, but in reality the model themselves are not even that perfect. The value they promotes sometime in advertising physically talks about the perfection of skin. Advertisement use the value of beauty to attract or...
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...School of Nursing EN1320 Composition I: Dr. Moon October 26, 2015 There are a lot of undocumented immigrants who come to the United States (US) for a better life for themselves and families. As it is shown on a circle graph by Cynthia S. Becker in 2005, “immigrants come from different countries; for example, 6.2 million 56% come from Mexico, 2.5 million 22% come from Latin America, 1.5 million 13% come from Asia, 0.6 million 6% come from Europe and Canada, and 0.4 million 3% come from Africa or other countries” Birthplace of illegal immigrants in U.S., 2005 (2007). These undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the US for a variety of reasons. These reasons are, immigrants help boost the nation’s economy, it helps families access health care, and families maintain united. First, undocumented immigrants help boost the nation’s economy. One may ask why or even how? The immigrants who come here, come for one purpose, to make money. According to Bluestein, “From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native-born startup rate declined by 10 percent, to a 30-year low. Immigrants today are more than twice as likely to start a business as native-born citizens” Bluestein, A. (2015). If it were not for some of the undocumented immigrants, the US would probably not have a majority of jobs. Second, having undocumented immigrants in the US help families access health care. Many families do not have healthcare due to not having...
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...Children of Immigrants A familiar story of the American narrative and a great theme in psychology of second generation is that the children of immigrants believe that they are the main reason for immigration of their parents who in most cases stake their hopes for future on the success of their children. Perceiving the sacrifices that are made by parents, seemingly on their behalf, not any amount of guilt toward their parents touches the children and drives their motivation to obtain a dynamic which in turn can offer the immigrant parents some level of psychological control over their offspring. Growing up in the immigrant families is usually marked by discordant acculturation, when the children’s learning of new ways and simultaneous loss of immigrant culture outstrips that of parents. When this occurs, linguistic and cultural gaps among them can exacerbate the intergenerational conflicts; make the children feel ashamed of their parents as they attempt to blend with the native friends, and lead to reversal roles, as the children take up adult roles earlier by dint of situations. All families of immigrants must contend with “stress and storm” adolescence and “generation gaps”, and the acculturation to new society. This is often a conflictive and complex process that is full of fault lines that are non-reducible to simplistic elaborations of parental pressure or peer pressure. Nevertheless, at the heart of the matter is the relation between children and their immigrant parents,...
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...side they say that legalizing illegal immigrants can help boost the economy and even complement the U.S workforce. On the other, they say that legalization will only entice more foreigners to cross the border illegally. Whatever the opinion, this is an important issue that has been brought up for a long time and no definitive solution has been implemented. This issue is one that makes you wonder whether legalizing immigrants would be good, bad or the impact it would have on the economy. The legalization of illegal immigrants might take a long time, but when it happens, many good things can come from this. Many families will be brought together instead of being torn apart. Those that have special work skills will be able to find a job in their specialty. Millions of people will be able to file taxes. Many young adults will have the ability to go to college and develop skills that will help this country go forward. People won’t have to do anything in secrecy; they will have the ability to do almost anything freely. Many good things can come from this legalization, but the question that remains is when? There are many people who argue that the legalization process is a bad idea. One of the biggest worries is that once they are legalized they will become eligible for all the benefits a citizen is eligible for. Another worry is that they would become competition for the natural born citizens, most likely leaving them without a job. If an immigrant becomes legalized their relatives...
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...Writing/COMM 215 Ending Illegal Immigration Persuasive Essay Paper 1 As Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Unfortunately, none of us can live forever and while eliminating taxes seems like a long shot, we can certainly lower it. To do that, we must have a strong economy. To have a strong economy, we cannot have one of the biggest economic drains in the nation: Illegal Immigrants. There are an estimated number of twenty million illegal immigrants in the United States. These criminals are leeches of our economic system as most of them do not pay taxes. The criminals also drain our economy by taking our jobs. Illegal Immigrants ruin the standard of living for hard-working American citizens and legal immigrants by using our social service programs from OUR taxes. It’s not simply economical issues that make it horrible and preposterous for these criminals to be accepted, it’s moral principle. Illegal Immigrants in general, do not pay taxes. Why is that? These kinds of criminals are virtually invisible to law enforcement. They are undocumented. They don’t have valid birth certificates, social security cards or passports. Since they are about as easy to find as finding Waldo in the bible, they pretty much have simply an option of paying taxes or not and as human nature dictates, we mostly do not spend more than we have to with getting nothing in return. In America today, we have...
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...Illegal Immigrants – They’re Money By Gregory Rodriguez [1] Dan Stein, the premier American nativist and president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, is shocked, shocked. He's mad at Bank of America for issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants. He says that to BofA "and other large corporations, illegal immigrants are a source of low-wage labor and an untapped customer market." You bet they are, and that's the American way. [2] Sure, I'm proud to be a citizen of a nation that portrays itself as a refuge for the "tired," "the poor" and the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." But let's face it, Emma Lazarus, the poet who wrote those words, may have laid it on a bit thick. The truth, no less beautiful in its way, is a little more crass and self-serving. But it wouldn't have sounded nearly as poetic to say, "bring us your able-bodied, poor, hardworking masses yearning for a chance to climb out of poverty, establish a credit history and…. " We all love to rhapsodize about immigrants' embrace of the American dream, but it's more like a hard-nosed American deal — you come here, you work your tail off under grueling conditions, and you can try your damnedest to better your lot over time. [3] In their generational struggle for acceptance and security, from outsider to insider and, dare I say, from exploited to exploiter, immigrants could avail themselves of those inalienable rights that stand at the core of our national political philosophy — life, liberty and...
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...The Languagelessness of Immigrants Ivy Dr. S. Xie English 239.03 Nov 21, 2012 People are in the fortunate position of choosing where in the world you would like to live. However, most immigrants facing removal proceedings are frequently hamstrung by language and cultural barriers. Both Kingston’s Woman Warrior and Suki Kim’s The Interpreter illustrate languagelessness of Chinese and Korean immigrants across American states, which are rejection by failing assimilation into American mainstream, loneliness and isolation from other people, and sense of identity crisis. Rejection by failing assimilation into American mainstream For the first generation born in America, it is especially difficult to reconcile the heavy-handed and often restrictive traditions of the emigrants with the relative freedom of life in America. In Women Warrior, Kingston draws a sharp contrast between her fantasy about Fa Mu Lan, the Chinese traditional woman warrior, and the defining moments of her real "American life." Fa Mu Lan had her village's grievances tattooed on her back; Kingston has Chinese stories practically drilled into her brain and is labeled with racial epithets. Her personal struggle and vengeance lie in making sense of the stories through writing, in depicting through words the struggles of growing up Chinese-American. There is an important difference, though, Fa Mu Lan could achieve her vengeance and then return home, but Kingston's vengeance seems to be a never-ending struggle...
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...threatening, not because of what they broadcast, but because of how they conceal true information from the citizens. Concerning immigrants crisis in the US, media has also been reporting untrue facts to the society. Even though the population of undocumented immigrants is continuing a nearly decade-long decline, the circumstance has been an enormous issue that divides Americans continuously. The Pew Research Center estimated that there were approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants, as of 2014. (Guskin, 2013, NP) One side states that undocumented immigrants are beneficial to the US economy through filling the job vacancies, more tax revenue from the immigrants, and sustaining the population...
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...The United States of America was founded and established by Immigrants. These immigrants were in search of a place to have individual freedoms and liberties that were not available in where they came from. They proved that with a lot of work and determination they could create their own country with these qualities. Without immigrants, the United States would not be the place it is today. It is surprising that a country founded by immigrants could be supportive of deporting immigrants to the countries that do not allow their people freedoms and liberties? The deportation of undocumented immigrants will have a negative effect on the United States’ economy by leaving a gap in the job industry, decreasing the income in communities and increasing...
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