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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Group#2
Malan, Jill
Entrolizo, Ronelyn
Toledo, Kaye
Escobar, John Loyd