Push FactorsResearch Paper Instructions
Topic: "Push" Factors (&Their Origin) in 1 South American or Latino island Nation Driving Emigration by Gender
Pick: one South American or Latino Island nation
Be sure to look at:
1. Push Factors
a. Economics
b. Safety
c. Other
2. The Origin of the Push Factors
a. Ask what is wrong with their economy, and why? If they don't have a self-sustaining economy, why is that? Where did this begin
b. If there are issues with safety in this nation, research why that is so. Who/what is driving the lack of safety? What are the underpinnings - the beginnings - of their difficulties?
3. Ask how it is different for cisgender women and cisgender men
a. If women are emigrating, leaving behind their families and everyone they know, and especially if mothers are leaving children behind with relatives, ask why?
b. If men are emigrating, leaving behind their families and everyone they know, and especially if fathers are leaving children behind with wives/relatives, ask why?
4. Research to what countries the emigrants from your nation of origin are going and
5. What kinds of jobs are generally open to them there when they first arrive, in the U.S., in other immigration destinations?
a. Does educational attainment in their home country impact their economic opportunity in othe countries to which these emigrants are moving?
b. Does their educational attainment in their country of origin opens doors for them in the U.S.?
6. Answer the question: Within the borders of the United States, to date (thus far/until the present), have immigrants from this nation been known sources of terrorism to native-born U.S. citizens?
Be sure to give your paper the structure of an obvious Intro/Findings/Conclusion.
Specifications
6page minimum (to have space to address each of these questions, you will need a minimum of 6 pages of text)
NO cover page
Double spaced
Normal (size 10 to 12 point) font
Normal (1 inch) margins on all four sides
AT least 5 sources, properly cited in-text and in the bibliographic reference page [works cited]