Posts Tagged ‘immigrants’

European migration and Irish pubs

Now that the European Union allows workers to move around the continent for jobs, some interesting migration patterns have developed.  According to this NY Times article, Germany, Britain and Spain are three of the top landing spots for immigrants from other nations.  These are not just laborers in search of a construction contract, but also thousands [...]

June 2, 2006 business 0 Comments

Immigration and national identity

It goes without saying that immigrants are central to the U.S. identity.  But that doesn’t mean that Americans have always agreed about the issue of immigration.  Far from it. Descendants of the early U.S. settlers struggled to assimilate the southern and eastern Europeans that came after them, such as the Italians and the Poles.  Today, those immigrant groups are equally [...]

March 29, 2006 countries & regions 0 Comments
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