PPT-IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN CHALLENGES

I IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN CHALLENGES Mid1800s L arge numbers of immigrants crossed the Atlantic ocean T o begin new lives in America Between 1840 1860 in the U S More than 4 million immigrants . Policies. Matthew Wright. American University. mwright@american.edu. Irene . Bloemraad. University of California, Berkeley. bloemr@berkeley.edu. Prepared for . IMR 50. th. Anniversary Symposium. Tuesday, September 30, . Chapter 14, section 1. Main Idea: . *In the mid-1800’s, millions of Europeans came to the U.S. hoping to build a better life.. Why It Matters Now:. *These German, Irish, and Scandinavians had a strong influence on American culture.. America Moves. to the City. America Moves to the City (1865-1900). By the year 1900, the U.S. population nearly doubled from what it was in 1870.. In the same period, the population of American cities tripled.. in Spain. 1) Beatriz Arce Álvarez . 2) Alberto Díez Gutiérrez. 3) Oscar Bayón González. Introduction. In Spain the immigration situation has evolved. It can be said that without major tensions have grown from an initial objective of arrival to another of stay. In 2007, 81% of foreign immigrants were raised to follow in our country (INE 2007). The onset of the crisis has changed the landscape by placing immigrants as a very vulnerable socially. As can be seen, unemployment rate affects differently: 12.56% to 21.26% of Spanish for foreigners. This puts things more difficult for effective integration policies, immediate consequences and the difficulties for the renewal of licenses, or unaffordable mortgages are obvious to outsiders.. Immigrants come to Western nations for many reasons including economic opportunities and individual freedoms.. Sometimes immigrants assimilate to the dominant culture of the nation but sometimes immigrants want to maintain their own cultures and traditions.. . under. Health Care reform. October 22, 2013. County Welfare Directors Association of California. Cathy Senderling-McDonald. Los Angeles County. Isabelle Maggio. California Pan-Ethnic Health Network. H. urt our Economy. They come over here to the U.S. illegally.. They get a job.. On the job, they get hurt like Mr. Velasquez did, and he gets full coverage at the hospital.. Not only does he get full coverage at the hospital, but he asks for a disability check from the U.S. because he got hurt on the job. . Lillian M. Hewko. Law Students for Reproductive Justice Fellow, NHWN. 30 . Regional Coordinators (RC’s) in . 26 . states and District of Columbia. National policy analysis, regulatory comments and advocacy, develop and share model state marketplace policies.. Push factors . versus . pull factors. Forced military service, rigid social/economic systems, religious persecution, . famine. Lots of available jobs in the USA, democracy, fluid social/economic structures. Immigration to the United States increased dramatically between 1840-1860. The largest group of immigrants to the United States at that time were from Ireland. Between 1846 and 1860, more than 1.5 million Irish immigrants came to the US because of a potato blight that destroyed most of the potato crops in the 1840s. A famine, an extreme shortage of food, struck Ireland. More than 1 million people died.. and . Urban Life. Images from Google Images. http://images.google.com/images. Video clip. Immigrants coming to America. New Wave of Immigrants. Mid 1800s to early 1900s- A flood of Immigrants to the U.S.. municipalities. Occupational restructuring challenges competencies-project. 31 August 2017. Erling Solheim. Helsinki City. Background - Economic integration. The economic integration of immigrants = the immigrant and his or her household are able to support him- or herself economically through employment. . True: . Of the 175 million migrants in the world, the U.S. admitted 1,063,732 documented immigrants in 2002. Undocumented immigration adds approximately 350,000 people per year by INS estimates. . Rhiannon Kamstra. M.Sc. Student. McGill EBOH 50. th. Anniversary. May 1. st. , 2015. Supervisor:. Dr. Christina Greenaway. Thesis committee:. Dr. Laurent . Azoulay. Dr. Marina Klein. Dr. Russell Steele.