Immigration, emigration, and migration are three terms we should understand before reading any further. ... As defined in the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopaedia (1998), “immigration is the movement of people into another nation with the intention of residing there permantly; emigration is the movement of people permantly leaving a nation; and migration is the movement of people, especially of whole groups, from one place, region, or country to another, particularly with the intention of making permanent settlement in a new location.”
Although this paper will be talking largely about immigration into a nation, it is still good that we know the difference between the three. Immigration is primarily about people (Immigration Canada, 1989). That is to say people make immigration occur. ...
Immigration is a highly individual decision. ... In Canada, its natural beauty, clean environment, cultural diversity, stable government, good education, health care system, safety and peacefulness are what attracts immigrants (1st Choice Immigration Services Inc. ... This is the where some issues and concerns come into place, as well as the level of importance immigration really has on a country.
Immigration: Important or Not?
Virtually every adult human being who is aware of the past and present world issues and has his or her own opinion will tell us that immigration is an important topic, whether they are fore or against it. ... It is often said that immigration must be essential for a country, because without it the countries of Canada and the US as we know it would not exist (Auer, Chenard, dePlaa, deSilva, Palmer, Serjak, 1991). Certainly the topic of immigration is very important. ... They are clearly mistaken though; as there are 3 important impacts that immigration has on the democracies of Canada and the US. ...
Demographic Impacts
The impacts of demographics is one of three important issues facing Canada and the US’s immigration patterns. ... 93) Clearly the more immigration allowed into a country, the higher the population will rise. For Canada, this is a positive, as they will need more influxes of immigration to prevent the increasing age of the country. Immigration into Canada is seen as no harm, in terms of demographics. ... The immigration levels then must be dramatically increased if we are to prevent a population crisis in Canada. Immigration can therefore serve to minimize Canada’s population decline in the future. (Immigration Canada, 1989, pp. ... 93-115) Demographically, Canada could increase the levels of immigration, as overpopulation or overcrowding is not an issue here. ... Thus Kennan believes immigration should be reduced in order to preserve the US’s environment, prosperity and most importantly population. ... This problem is that there is not enough immigration in the US than there should be. Immigration in the past has contributed to the building of America and today it is up to the future immigrants to contribute to rebuilding it. ... Francese (1994) argues that if America continues to restrict immigration into the country, that they will shoot themselves both feet. ... In Canada there are pros and cons with the economic impacts of immigration. The cons are mostly based on the attitudes Canadian’s have towards immigration. ... 217) who examined the predictors of attitudes toward immigration using surveys conducted in Canada between 1975 and 1989, indicated that this notion of increased unemployment was related to the less favorable attitudes toward the current level of immigration. This may suggest that in times of high unemployment, the site of immigrants who are competing for jobs increases the tendency to view immigration as being a factor that increases unemployment. This in turn changes the attitudes towards immigration into a less favorable manner. Immigrants don’t increase unemployment and don’t generally take jobs away from the native born Canadians (Immigration Canada, 1989, pp. ... There are of course different attitudes here in the US regarding economic impacts of immigration as there were in Canada. There are two very opposite views on the economic impacts of immigration and whether immigration should be increased or decreased. Harrison (1992) argues that immigration should be reduced in order to strengthen US competiveness in the economy. ... He concludes that the only way to improve and strengthen the competiveness is too limit immigration to only a certain number of skilled immigrants. Given that he may have hit on some key issues about the poor economic competiveness, it seems that he may be a little off with the notion that the US has failed to advance technology and that we should limit the immigration of skilled workers in order to improve the US’s economic competiveness.
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