Fragmented Yet One

Claudio as an emigrant himself confessed that the focused life and boldness of most immigrants tells of their determination to succeed in their newly adopted host country. The success story of America and many European countries was the success of immigration processes. To ordinary immigrants, they have burnt their bridge when they left their once beloved country and loved ones to give themselves a second chance at making life worth living. That determination or will power might be one of the resources they draw on to succeed in their new –found land. Liz suggested that to move homes at your leisure and within your environment might not be a pleasant experience depending on the circumstances. But to leave the known for the unknown, the familiar for the strange and have people treating you as the stranger that you are, sometimes with a declining confidence and the attendant feeling of aloneness is a massive step to take as an adult which could easily become a tragedy. Jack further suggested that some people might not be happy that their beloved country had become an El Dorado for immigrants, if they forgot where they themselves had come from, and they would rather see the migrants continue to suffer their fate on other shores. It does not matter whether such people were atheists or religious, the only thing they could see were fewer job availabilities in their market. They simply could not afford anything that might disturb the system, and they have refused to believe, this could be them or their wives or children. Instead, they thought, these people were coming to provide cheap labour, get the social benefits while they have earned their citizenship working out their hearts. Many generous hearts however were quick to point out the numerous benefits that the hard working immigrants have brought into their newly adopted countries and to celebrate such talents. In the opinion of Liz, the influence of some of the discussions on immigration in the political arena is that it stains the personality of some people, creating an environment of mistrust in the migrants for those who determine their migration status. The worst of the damaging social impact in managing the rhetoric is usually felt by the taxpayers and in family grief or agony. If the immigration rhetoric isolates a class of people where they were targeted unduly and wrongly in public places, a certain disharmony can be entrenched in the neighbourhoods for which the politicians were never the first to take responsibility. This outcome according to Jack may not be the general result of the rhetoric; it may simply be the case for the targeted group to begin to feel a sense of aloneness and depression with a cost to the taxpayers. By these process whole lives becomes wasted due to the consequential inferiority complex. Though many of the parties in the developed world who see and consistently impinge on the welfare of immigrants may not always enjoy a controlling share of governance with the anti-immigrants often described as protest parties. Yet they represent a caution for social cohesion and it must be observed that anti-immigration has different levels and interests. It must be remembered that such groups can by their actions give their country an unintended colouration; therefore their actions and motives should be continuously assessed. Jack further opined that, if there was any embarrassment in the invention of international relations between the colonial masters of the past and a breakthrough in de-icing the frosty relationship and to attain an understanding of the dark past, immigration is the fastest way of overcoming it. Immigration is often a two-way traffic and a visit to the International Airports of many countries in both the developed and developing nations would testify to this fact. Gone were the days when certain nationals of particular type were being forced against their will to board ships as forced-labour in other lands. The present engine for immigration and its success has mostly been built upon the consistent effort of people and countries of the developing world to equip themselves with western education and access the economic advantages present in the northern hemisphere. The means available to immigrants from the poor nations are mostly their determination and faith in an unknown future and the right to freedom of movement should not be the preserve of only a set of people. It would have been an easy way for most immigrants to surrender to fate in their home fronts if they know for sure what awaits them overseas. However, the consistency of the campaign against immigration whether legal or illegal in certain countries was enough motivation for many people in the developing world to feed their ambition and to inspire them. For many potential migrants, the determination of many nations to keep them off their shores is enough encouragement that there might be valuables which they were preventing them from reaching. One of the major features of immigration is the massive gulf between perceptions on both sides. The imagination of what is obtainable in the developed world and why people from the developing world were moving away from their home-steads may be another factor. The developed world may assume the notion of immigrants coming to impoverish their economy while those who intend to migrate see the campaigns against immigration as malicious. Meanwhile, Claudio asserted that the issue might simply be immigration; that is its management rather than the immigrants for who they were as a people, for the history of the world, in the past and present, is characterized by immigration itself.