Community Issues
As above mentioned, the Chinatown’s residents have experienced some specific issues, high household with senior rate, low education levels, low-income, low English proficiency. The community has obviously faced some challenges, booming population, lack of green space. Additionally, developer signed a deal to build 62-acre neighborhood linking South Loop and the Chinatown in 2016, the last large undeveloped green space in downtown Chicago. Thus, the Chinatown will be influenced by more external forces than today. On the whole, the current and future needs of the Chicago’s Chinatown can be listed as below.
Immigration Services, as a traditional immigrant community, Chicago’s Chinatown has had immigrant services for their residents. The immigration services are expected to assist the residents to adjust themselves to new life by providing English as Second Language programs, guiding them into City of Chicago services and etc. However, with the booming population, there are some new needs or more needs have to be addressed in the community. In order to meet the needs of new increasing immigrants, the community requires more immigrant service providers or current immigrant service providers should serve more immigrant residents.
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It’s not only to cause the low-income, but also to decrease the opportunity of residents for improving life. Current adjacent public high schools, Tilden and Phillips, have low Asian attendance, at 1.7 percent and 0.4 percent respectively. Most Chinatown families sent their children to Thomas Kelly High School, one of the closest neighborhood schools. Though, the students still take two buses to get there. It causes many Chinatown students to give up on extracurricular activities. So the community desires to have better public high school options for children living in the
Many of these ethnic groups still reside where their relatives first lived when they arrived many years ago, whereas a majority of the ethnic groups have dispersed all over the Chicago land area, creating many culturally mixed neighborhoods. Ultimately, all of these ethnic groups found their rightful area in which they belong in Chicago. To this day, the areas in Chicago that the different ethnic immigrants moved to back in the 1920s are very much so the same. These immigrants have a deep impact on the development of neighborhoods in today’s society. Without the immigrants’ hard work and their ambition to establish a life for their families and their future, Chicago would not be as developed and defined as it is now.
That broader conception of school allowed those schools to better support the students and address social issues that prevent students from accessing their full potential. This conceptual shift can only be spurred by a clear vision of “good education”—which then caused an improvement in their community’s education
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Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing primary sources and the secondary sources to back up the information, one could find out about what Chinese, Italians, Swedish, and Vietnamese immigrants have experienced in the United States in different time periods from 1865 to 1990.
Did everyone has taken a moment to imagine which neighborhood that you like to live? The Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago is one of the historic neighborhoods. According to Harry Kiang’s Chicago’s Chinatown, “In 1890, 25 percent of the city's 600 Chinese lived along Clark between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, in an area called the Loop’s Chinatown. After 1910 Chinese from the Loop moved to a new area near Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue, mainly for cheaper rent” (Encyclopedia of Chicago). The Chicago has two Chinatowns at the Southern part of the Chicago. Thus we can know that the old Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood is called the Loop’s Chinatown and located at Clark between Van Buren and Harrison Streets; the new Chicago’s Chinatown located
The United States of America has the largest foreign-born population in the world. With nearly thirteen percent of the total population being foreign-born, one may find it hard to imagine an immigrant-free country (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Immigration has been an integral part of the United States’ overall success and the country’s economy since it was established and without it, would have never been founded at all. Although there are some negative issues associated with immigration and many native-born Americans believe to be more of a problem than a solution, overall it actually has a positive effect. Immigrants in America, among other things, fill jobs where native-born Americans may not want to work or cannot work, they contribute to Social Services and Medicaid through taxes and they help provide the backbone of America, especially by working jobs that natives may have not even considered.
Immigration can be defined as passing foreigners to a country and making it their permanent residence. Reasons ranging from politics, economy, natural disasters, wish to change ones surroundings and poverty are in the list of the major causes of immigration in both history and today. In untied states, immigration comes with complexities in its demographic nature. A lot of cultural and population growth changes have been witnessed as a result of immigration. In the following paper, I will focus on how immigration helps United States as compared to the mostly held view that it hurts America.
Immigration is a social problem that has historically been part of the United States since the 1970’s. Now let's interview (N = 200) undocumented families who are residing in shelters facilities for reasons that we will analyze in the development of this paper. At the same time homelessness has been a problem that our government, lawmakers, nonprofit organizations have tried to reinvent, address to reduce the homeless situation. Lastly, the housing system especially in New York City where the rent is skyrocketing and no one has been able to fight against this particular issue. This has been one of the main reasons for the tremendous increase and complex problem of evictions of families that are becoming homeless abruptly fast.
According to “How One Small Midwest Town Has Turned Immigration into Positive Change”, Small town in Rural Iowa is one of the example that was given by Richard Mertens, Mixing of language usage in class is interesting for people in town. Bilingual program is more popular than English-only classes that there is a waiting list for the bilingual program. This dual-language program starts in kindergarten that students learn in both English and Spanish. Moreover, the program is successful because people in town want their children to learn second language while Hispanic parents want to remind their children about where they come from. Having immigrants not only benefit in an education but also for economic. Because there is an increasing in Hispanic in the town, business owners are seeking out immigrants or bilingual employees in order to stay more competitive because these kind of people can communicate with their customers in both English and Spanish. In addition, immigrants can provide an inside of customers to business owner. For example Latin employee gives an information to a grocery business that now they stock supplies that Latin families wanted such as jalapeños, cactus, several varieties of green onions, and cilantro. Immigrants help this rural town avoids a decrease in population as many rural area experience and they contribute variety of benefits to the
Immigrants leave their countries in search for a better life and improvement of their situation. There is no singular reason for immigration; motivations range from better economic prospects to political safety. As of late, the number of immigrants living in the United States is an estimated 11 million. Those who immigrate are expected to contribute to the United States culturally, politically, and economically. Yet, full assimilation becomes difficult to achieve when the immigrant is made into “the other” by the country of reception.
Immigrants must overcome many barriers to succeed in America. First, migrants frequently must learn a new language. Inability to communicate is a critical barrier for accessing the health care system (Urrutia-Rojas, Marshall, Trevino, Lurie, & Minguia-Bayona, 2006). Second, the processes of work and schooling for themselves and their families can be daunting. Lastly, immigrants use the established social network of longer duration residents for reference and knowledge (Nandi, Galea, Lopez, Nandi, Strongarone, & Ompad, 2008). For purposes of this report, there are three different types of immigrant: legal, undocumented, and refugees or persons seeking asylum. All three types of residents want to succeed and achieve their personal dream.
Gentrification is the keystone for the progression of the basic standards of living in urban environments. A prerequisite for the advancement of urban areas is an improvement of housing, dining, and general social services. One of the most revered and illustrious examples of gentrification in an urban setting is New York City. New York City’s gentrification projects are seen as a model for gentrification for not only America, but also the rest of the world. Gentrification in an urban setting is much more complex and has deeper ramifications than seen at face value. With changes in housing, modifications to the quality of life in the surrounding area must be considered as well. Constant lifestyle changes in a community can push out life-time
The United States has often been referred to as a global “melting pot” due to its assimilation of diverse cultures, nationalities, and ethnicities. In today’s society, this metaphor may be an understatement. Between 1990 and 2010, the number of foreign born United States residents nearly doubled from 20 million to 40 million, increasing the U.S. population from almost 250 million to 350 million people. With U.S. born children and grandchildren of immigrants, immigration contributed to half of this population growth. These immigrants, consisting of mostly Asian and Hispanic backgrounds, have drastically changed the composition of the U.S. population. In 2010, Asians and Hispanics made up 20 percent of the U.S. population, in contrast to a 6 percent share of Asians and Hispanics in 1970. It is predicted that by 2050, the share of immigrants in the United States will increase to one half of the entire population. With this rapid increase in diversity, many citizens have opposing views on its impact on the United States. In my opinion, an increase in immigration does contain both positive and negatives effects, but in general it provides an overriding positive influence on America’s society (“Population”).
Snell, L. (2002). Meaningful Public School Choice. [15 paragraphs]. Retrieved April 3, 2003 from the World Wide Web: http://www.rppi.org/publicschoolchoice.html
...trated in the inner city where the worst, most impoverished schools are located. Therefore, even if they wish to attend school, they still receive have less access to good teachers and a good learning environment. And perhaps the most detrimental issue that minorities face is that they are often stigmatized as inferior. This causes them to be treated differently and it causes them to have low expectations for themselves, which leads to poor performance.