Doty: The Globalization Of Higher Education

The United States has been familiar with the topic of immigration since its birth; the nation is built upon immigrants. Today, immigration rates in the United States have been soaring. Whether people are emigrating from their homelands to relocate their family to a safer country or to receive a better education, they are acting as their own agents by attempting to make a better life for themselves. Legal immigration and current immigration policies that have led to illegal immigration have greatly impacted families and the education system in the United States.

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

The global mobility of human resources between countries is a key driving force of the currently ongoing economic and regional development all over the world. It is indisputable that the immigration of international labour force would exert many positive and important impacts on the economic, cultural and social structure of both migrant-receiving and migrant-sending countries. Actually, the trend of temporary and permanent immigrants increasing in some western countries began to gain momentum in recent years. Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD 2004) reports indicated that there were more than 1 million new immigrants in the United States in 2001 and 2002, increased by 25% from 2000; in some European countries

“A child without education, is like a bird without wings.”- Tibetan proverb. Since the discovery of the Americas, immigration has played a vital role in the development of the United States of America. People migrated here due to the extensive land available, resources but most of all the countless opportunities this new territory had to offer. In the present day, immigration has changed from being opportunistic to trying to find a complete new and better way of life, immigrants are risking their lives to get in and improve their way of life. For a person to succeed in life, there is a basic right which many countries unfortunately do not even offer its citizens, the right for the best education

Migration policies are often designed with the sole objective of influencing international migration by either restricting or encouraging circular migration, immigration or emigration(Ripsman & Paul, 2010). Open border policies have contributed to the uncontrolled to the flow of illegal immigrants into countries and in turn generating challenges to the host countries. The fundamental basis for arguments has been whether open immigration policy or restricted immigration policy

Unauthorized migration in the United States has turned into a “Vicious Cycle” of adverse effects that sustain a system of underdevelopment, reduced productivity, low-wage, and limited rights (Hinojosa, 2015). This is the reality of many migrants that leave their country of origin in search of economic mobility. The push factors that influence people’s decision to migrate are primarily economic and security. Poverty, lack of employment, opportunities, and economic mobility along with high rates of violence and crime drive people out of their home countries which tend to be in the Global South and into the Global North where developed nations like the United States have pull factors that attract the excessive labor from developing nations. Demand for low-skilled labor, higher paying wages, social and political stability, quality education, and greater wealth are some of the many qualities that make advanced nations the preferred destination.

Although Immigration is a complex topic with many different factors, the most common reason for immigration is poverty and the hopes of building a new future elsewhere. In the past migration was largely caused by the fore-mentioned issue of poverty, social strife, war, or other political conflicts. As of today these things are still issues and in some cases political asylum does play part in immigration decisions. Globalization is defined as the tendency for business, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world. Globalization is also a major factor in the decisions made before immigration, often times families and friends will eventually re-unite in one region in order to remain together. Living in a more technical world with an advanced society has brought us to the point we are at today, a nearly global community with more in common than in any century before. With the beginning of modern technology in the 1900’s came a more closely knit world, with more communication than what was seen in the past.

Over the years, there has been tremendous cases of illegal immigration, finding it's routes all over the United States, which in turn results in shaking the economy, both financially and socially. Consequently, the major reason behind migration from other countries is due to the fact that there are lots of unlimited opportunities available in the United States. This variety of opportunities are the main center of attention that attracts people into the country by finding dubious means of coming in illegally. As a matter of fact, it has also been certified that most foreigners leave their native born countries because

Yearly, a large number of people around the globe choose to immigrate to other countries, and this rate is expected to increase in near future.

Immigration involves the movement of a group of people from one country to another where they do not possess citizenship. There are many reasons in which people may leave their country such as employment, lack of resources, family, fear due to violence, exile, the American dream. In 1965, Congress changed immigration law in ways that allowed much more intake from Asia and Latin America than earlier. Before 1965, the intake was mostly from Europe. Since then, over half has come from Latin America—28 % just from Mexico. The share of population composed of non-Hispanic whites plunged from 84 % in 1965 to only 62 % in 2015 while Hispanics soared from 4 to 18 %. (Mead, L.M., 2016)

There is an interesting phenomenon among animals. The traveling birds’ flight track cover nearly half of the earth annually. The massive group of reeboks migrates on African grassland. We human beings also have a similar behavior, immigration. Meeting foreigners in the street seems common nowadays. Being expatriates as businessmen or international students is also becoming an inevitable tendency. However, immigration has more discrepancies with the situations listed above. Immigration means abandoning their motherland and living in a foreign country. Recently, the refugees from Syria are crowding into Europe, which is a troublesome hot topic for the European Union(CNN). Another superpower country, America, is still suffering from the drugs, threaten to public security brought by the stowaways from the south(Fei

“As of 2011, approximately 13% of the U.S population, 40 million people, was born outside of the United States.”. (Winter, 2005). This has caused a big issue for United States given the impact of humans bean will affect the countries. Americans today tend to believed back in 2000’s this has caused a big issue for Japan and European areas because the population has increased over time. Japan and European had no control over the amount of migrants that took land in the area of living. However, it causes a lot of issues with formal residents because the living. Living in Canada allowed the residents to have a valid opinion about migrants resigning in their location.(Winter

The main reason why individuals migrating to United States is to seek employment. In most cases, their countries do not offer competitive wages. The United States has been able to identify this and has offered the H1-B visa where the minimal requirement is a bachelor’s degree. This has led the many educated people to migrate to America, allowing America be very competitive in the global market in certain sectors. This is explained by (U.S Citizen and Immigration Services, 2017, table

In this respect, it is worthy of mention that such a situation with the migration is the result of the recent trend in the world economy which is characterized by processes which are generally called globalization. The process of globalization is overwhelming and involves practically all countries of the world with rare exceptions which

Immigrants leave their home country and come here in many reason. Some of them are victim in war, others come for job’s, education’s opportunities, others come because they don’t have enough benefit’s condition for their majors.