WHICH WAY HOME

CHAIN MIGRATION

Introduction:

Chain migration is a term used by scholars to refer to the social process by which migrants from
a particular town follow others to a particular destination. The destination may be in another country or
in a new location within the same country. Chain migration can be defined as a “movement in which
prospective migrants learn of opportunities, are provided with transportation, and have initial
accommodation and employment arranged by means of primary social relationships with previous
migrants.The dynamic underlying “chain migration” is so simple that it sounds like common sense:
People are more likely to move to where people they know live, and each new immigrant makes
people they know more likely to move there in turn.

Causes:

Opponents of reform efforts often are opposed to family-based immigration as well. The
United States allows its citizens to petition for legal status for their immediate relatives,spouses,
minor children, and parents without numerical limitations. Another reason is that people are more
likely to move to where people they know live, and each new immigrant makes people they know more
likely to move there in turn. But as obvious as the reality is on the ground, it wasn’t always incorporated
into theoretical models of migration. Economists tended to think about the decision to migrate as a
simple calculus of how much money someone was making at home versus how much he could be
making abroad, rather than understanding that the decision was more complicated and that family and
social relationships played a role. One of the contributing factors of chain migration is poverty of a state
of country which cause individual to migrate and look for better opportunities in other countries.
Stability of a family is a also a cause or can be the government itself which has derived people to look
for work abroad and late on developed chain migration.

Effects:

Chain migration is contributing to the aging of the immigration stream. Immigrants have been
some of the prime beneficiaries of family reunification over the years, helping to create their large exile
community. Opponents of family-based immigration argue that it has caused migration of country to
skyrocket. They say it encourages overstaying visas and manipulating the system, and that it allows too
many poor and unskilled people into the country.They say it encourages overstaying visas and
manipulating the system, and that it allows too many poor and unskilled people into the country.
Studies have shown that family-based immigration has encouraged stability. It has promoted playing
by the rules and financial independence. Immigrants with strong family ties and stable homes do better
in their adopted countries and they're generally a better bet to become successful Citizens than
immigrants who are on their own.These immigrants would also end up behaving differently once they
arrived in their new countries. If they were just there for economic reasons, they’d have an incentive to
move back once they’d made enough money, or circulate back and forth. But immigrants who move for
social reasons are moving to a new community— a new place they’ll stay.

Solution:

To reduce the contribution and effects of chain migration to immigration and by extension
population growth, Congress should eliminate the visa lottery and three categories of legal immigration
for extended family members and limit the number of parent admissions. These changes would reduce
legal immigration by 20 percent and reduce chain migration demand. The President should begin
requiring immigration agencies to complete an environmental impact analysis of all immigration actions
and policies that increase the number of immigrants. The government should take action in the issue of
unemployment so that the citizen of their own country would not be oblige to move out just to look for
another job to suffice their needs.
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Malan, Jill
Entrolizo, Ronelyn
Toledo, Kaye
Escobar, John Loyd