Primary Sources on Immigration into the United States

Immigrants have existed in the world including hundreds of cultures for hundreds of years. Tired of poverty, lack of opportunity, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lack of choice, many people migrated from their country of birth to other countries, seeking new opportunities and new better lives Resolve the future of the family. Let's work hard and get a place of life. For many people, the United States is an opportunity, a country of dreams, and is hoped for as a foundation for a better and more equal world for all.

In this article we will explore the evidence of assimilation and the role of source culture in influencing immigrant women 's behavior in the US - over time, American immigrants and immigrant residences. It pays special attention to the supply of labor, but for the second generation it also needs to investigate fertility and education. In the United States, we found that there is sufficient evidence that the role of gender in the immigrant country will affect the behavior of immigrants and second generation women. This conclusion is powerful for efforts to eliminate the influence of other unobservable factors and distinguish the influence of culture and social capital. These results support an increasing number of literature, indicating that culture is crucial to economic behavior. At the same time, the results show that there is considerable evidence of immigrant assimilation.

About 376,000 Nigerian immigrants and their children (1st and 2nd generation) live in the United States, Nigeria is the largest source of African immigrants to America. Since 1980, the size of the population born in Nigeria has increased from a small population and an estimated 25,000 Nigerian immigrants are resident in the United States. Today, Nigerian immigrants account for about 0.6% of all US foreign born populations, about half of which have arrived before 2000. A similar proportion of Nigerian immigrants are naturalized American citizens.

Many Africans who moved to the United States returned their income to Africa from a remittance point of view. For example, in Nigeria, the total remittance from Nigeria to Nigeria in 2012 amounted to 6.1 billion dollars, accounting for about 3% of Nigeria's gross domestic product. An important role of remittance to improve the lives of American families has brought immigrants and immigrants staying in the United States. Due to immigration education and economic trends, reunification of families has pushed up recent immigration trends. Family reunion refers to the ability of US citizens to sponsor their families for immigrants. In 2016, the preferences of sponsored families and other families accounted for 45% and 10% of the total number of immigrants in Africa respectively. Legal services organizations such as the African Advocacy Network will help families in the United States sponsor new immigrants