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Zujey Galvan

Ms. Nelson

ENGL 1302 104

06 October 2021

Immigration benefits and problems

Immigration can have its benefits and its crucial problems; throughout these articles the

author provided evidence for each outcome of their research. For instance, one of the authors of

an article argued throughout the article that immigrants are non-European, non-educated, poor,

and non-capable of helping the society, that therefore, they are just a threat and unnecessary for

the American culture. On the other hand, we benefit from them bring here.

The author provides evidence in by stating that some immigrants are non-educated, but he also

says that they bring so many things to any country they migrate to. An example would be like

customs they bring from their hometown, and people they influence for the better, maybe by

observing how hard their life is, they would appreciate their life more. Moreover, within all those

things they bring, the author also mentions that they suffer a lot, two scholars talked about the

immense suffering that immigrants go through when they try to pursue their dream of looking for

a “better life”. In this article, “A ‘Better Life’? both authors mention how immigrants have a

different perspective of their better life and instead of finding a place that provides prosperity to

their families, they end up getting mistreated and humiliated. Most of the time immigrant parents

are just looking for a better life for their children, with all these humiliations they still stand up

every day and they keep working hard. For instance, “this dehumanizing metaphor7 is a

destabilizing example from the text that confirms Decouvelaere’s assertion that the boucs are
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exploited in the same fashion as one would a natural resource.” (Moser 16). The author argues

that most of them do come for a better lifestyle, not everyone is a criminal or is trying to have

their life benefit from another human’s hard work. He mentions that immigrants take over jobs

that citizens would never want to work in, in that part it is beneficial for some people like

companies who needed a worker to keep business going. In conclusion, he explains people do

deserve an opportunity to remake their lives full of prosperity in a state where they are allowed

to prosper the hard way, the right way, the honest working way. Not everyone is lucky enough to

be privileged is a life like yours.

In addition, McAlexander argues in his paper how immigration and terrorism are

associated. The author builds on the topic by examining the right and left-wing terror criminals

in Western Europe between 1980 and 2004. In the analysis, the researcher discovered that

growth in foreigners is positively linked to an increase in bombing activities, however solely

conservative terror groups. McAlexander (2020) confirms from the study that immigration has

no impact on left-wing terrorism or other terror associations that are non-rightist. The researcher

in the analysis examined the influence of arriving refugees on terrorism and found conforming

results. The analysis supports the investigation of terrorism as a binding judgment by

demonstrating that growing hostility towards an out-group instead of transforming strategic

setting elucidates variations in stages of bombing attacks, possibly among the liberal democrats.
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Works cited

Moser, Keith. “A ‘Better Life’? the Universal Deception of Immigrants in the Narratives

of Driss Chraïbi and J. M. G. Le Clézio.” International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol. 16,

no. 1, 2013, pp. 9–26., https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.16.1-2.9_1. 

Andresen, M. A., & Ha, O. K. (2020). Spatially varying relationships between immigration

measures and property crime types in vancouver census tracts, 2016. The British Journal of

Criminology, 60(5), 1342-1367.

Kukathas, Chandran. Immigration and Freedom. Princeton University Press, 2021,

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16rdcgw

McAlexander, R. J. (2020). How are immigration and terrorism related? An analysis of

right-and left-wing terrorism in Western Europe, 1980–2004. Journal of Global Security

Studies, 5(1), 179-195.