The difficulties surrounding migration to the U.S. do not stop when you have reached your destination. Post-migration life has its own unique obstacles that often are a result of circumstances experienced during pre-migration and the migration process itself. Between fighting discrimination, gaining citizenship, adapting to a new culture and managing language barriers, the struggle to […]
The relationship between native places, identity, and one’s sense of home is becoming one of increased complexity as people migrate to further lands with significantly different cultures than the one they are brought up in. Global travel has allowed humans to connect with new people and places on a grander scale than ever before. In 2008, […]
Thousands of people around the world desperately wish to leave their homelands and travel to the United States for a variety of reasons. Often, their dreams for a new life parallel the motivations that caused the Pilgrims to leave their own homelands for America. Many who hope to escape war, persecution, famine and poverty believe […]
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a federal judge’s order earlier this month that new applicants should be given consideration. The judge’s order came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t follow proper procedure […]
Immigrants have always represented a transfusion of human capital, dynamism, and creativity to the receiving country, despite heated political rhetoric to the contrary. Episodes of ecological disaster and civil war can cause entire populations to leave for another country to save their lives. More commonly, though, immigrants leave home because they make a voluntary decision […]
Given the heightened levels of anti-immigration sentiments permeating the United States over the past few years, Peoples of Color who also happen to be immigrants or who are children of immigrants are faced with yet another burden that researchers have called “acculturative stress”: an additional type of psychological stress that is faced by immigrants and […]
A Story About the Start of an African-based Non-Profit While Americans become more aware of their mental health needs, there remain disparities among immigrants and refugees due to a lack of awareness and affordability. And, while lawmakers across the U.S. fiercely debate the implementation of mental health programs, a group of African immigrants in Los […]
If your ultimate aim is to move to the US to work, then you will probably need a sponsor to help apply for one of the US work visas such as the H-1B and H-2B. As not all employers are willing or able to sponsor employees to work in the US, it is important to narrow […]
President Donald Trump’s latest curb on immigration tightens and extends restrictions on foreign work visas and legal immigration to the U.S. The newly signed order blocks — through the end of the year — visas for a variety of guest workers such as au pairs, engineers and scientists, who come to work for a limited period of […]
While necessary to manage the fallout of the pandemic, limitations on the movement on people make it more difficult for asylum seekers and irregular migrants to access protection. As the civil war in Libya rages on asylum seekers and migrants have been turned away by European governments. As stated in a report by Amnesty International, […]
