Issues Related to Immigration
By Rae Asay
Struggles for Immigrant Students
Immigrant students face a plethora of problems when it comes to education in a new country. Some problems are: linguistic and cultural differences, struggling with the new language, and a completely new pedagogy. Sometimes children have sentiments related to their home country and don't even have the motivation to learn the language. They also feel the pressure of living in two different cultures, one at home and one at school.
New Language
A lot of children have troubles in a new country with the language barrier.
Pressure
The kids can often feel pressure from their parents at home telling them to speak the old language, but everyone else is telling them to embrace the new culture.
Statistics
This shows a pattern that most immigrants move to more developed countries.
Statistics
- Worldwide, there is an estimated 191 million immigrants
- The last 50 years has seen an almost doubling of immigration
- 115 million immigrants live in developed countries
- 20% (approximately 38 million) live in the US alone, making up 13% of its population
- 33% of all immigrants live in Europe
- 75% live in just 28 countries
- Women constitute approximately half of all migrants at around 95 million
- Between 1990 and 2005
- There were 36 million migrations (an average of approximately 2.4 million per year)
- 33 million wound up in industrialized countries
- 75% of the increases occurred in just 17 countries
- Immigration decreased in 72 countries in the same period