Being deported from any country seems like a degrading experience among Jamaicans, quite often a myriad of ills caused by deportees are highlighted, but how does the act of deportation affect the deportees?
Many of whom migrated with their parents at a young age, spent their adolescent lives and later matured into adult-hood overseas.
Having been schooled, socialized and naturalized in foreign cultures and ways of living, a fraction of the almost three thousand individuals expelled annually by those countries they called home arrive in Jamaica displaced and with vulnerabilities.
Of the total numbers turned back between 2005-2010,a study indicated that minority-but a significant number have no local family nor ties to Jamaica.
This is when issues like stigmatization, unavailability of jobs and the pressures of integrating positively into the society become real life challenges that they may well have faced for the first time.
Coming from a more ideal life, once many of them reach Jamaica that's when reality sets in and their lives either change for the better or for the worse.
After attempts to settle and integrate some try to find a positive niche from which they can live, while some engage in acts of criminality because it is perhaps the easiest or only way out.
But overall the majority struggle to gain acceptance/respect and to eventually re-integrate and live the Jamaican way of life.
The life of any deported Jamaican is never without challenges however, as a degree of burden,scepticism and scrutiny rests on his/her shoulders due to pre-conceived notions. It takes into account the individuals dispelling myths, coping with stigma and surviving the odds one way or another.
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...ica's Stephen Vasciannie expressed concern at what he termed deportees having little ties to Jamaica.
One would think that having the World’s first coloured President Barak Obama, would benefit those of that ethnicity, but his presidency has so far deported for hundred thousand people, in comparison to his pre-predecessor George W Bush whose policy expelled around three hundred and seventy thousand in his final year in Office. Additionally in the years: 2011 about 1,336 Jamaicans were deported, an increase of 68 in the previous year. In 2012 the U.S sent back 1,379 Jamaicans and overall a total of 2,629 Jamaicans were deported from all countries. The figures appear to increase annually, while many Jamaicans here and in the diaspora have expressed alarm, dissent and outrage at these policies and question the deportation policies of those sending countries.
addition, after WWI, there were many waves of Jamaican peoples that would come to America.
“Jamaica’s a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.”(Michael Franti) In this paper, I will talk about the geography, the history of Jamaica, the people that live there now and that lived there in the past, the lifestyle of the society, and the society, like the government and economy.
people come for a better more ideal life, but they have no idea why they stay. New York
When the school day came to an end, I would feel a nervous sensation as I waited to see if one of parents was standing on the other side of the school gate. From the conversations I heard amongst adults to the news I saw on TV, I knew that the possibility of never seeing my parents again existed. No one gave me a clear explanation of what was currently happening, but I was aware of one thing -- what the term “deportation” meant.
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As an attempt to escape the possible tragic proceedings following cultural conflicts, Latin American immigrants seek refuge in America. Once in America, immigrants seek to gain new opportunities that can enable them to essentially achieve a better quality of life. Additionally, Henderson argues that immigrants from Latin America migrate to the United States for roughly the same reasons as other immigrants: “they might wish to join family members, have a lust for adventure, or need to escape something in their home country; but mostly they need jobs, which are scarce back home”
The Caribbean is comprised of a group of island. Jamaica is one of the greatest Antilles. It has a tropical climate. Each country has its own culture, Jamaicans is not an exemption, and they have an assorted and distinctive one. “Their culture is a complex mixture of African, Arabic, European, East Indian, and Chinese roots combining together to create a rich, dynamic heritage” (Gall, 2009).
problems and this makes them suffer in silence when they are oppressed and denied equal
For Mexicans, the general reason to migrate is for pure economy reasons. For Cubans and Guatemalans, the main reason is to escape from persecution at home and seek refugee status in the United States. For Indigenous communities, it is generally a combination of the two. But often or not, the poor and unlivable conditions in the home country are just too much to bear. They are often so horrible that not only are men and women willing to face and in some cases, die to reach the United States but, as dramatized in “Victoria para Chino”, so too do the children of migrant parents. Upon crossing the border, many migrants discover that the much-hyped notion that the US is a land of opportunity or plentiful work is not true. Migrants, unlike citizens, have far fewer choices to employment options such as agriculture and service jobs. Generally, these jobs provide low pay and are some of the most economically vulnerable during economic downturns. If a migrant cannot find stable work, he is often forced onto the streets as a jornalero. A jornalero is basically a day laborer that seeks work on street corners. However, this method of work is notorious for its unreliability for work and money that it is often joked that there is only “¡Tres trabajos para toda la pinche ciudad!” (Ordenez pg.44). While
The changing environments throughout the ages have caused the movement of thousands of families out of their homelands. Whether forced to make such decisions or doing so by their own desires, all immigrants have had to survive the physical and psychological challenges encountered along the way. To speak about the experiences of all these different people using the same ideas and examples would be quite inaccurate. They all, however, had to live through similar situations and deal with similar problems. Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found only hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed.
Living in two different places is an experience that opens people’s mind to a new way of thinking. The diversities of each country has its own appeal and often times, we find ourselves comparing and contrasting these nations based a variety of aspects. Despite bearing some minor similarities, the differences in geography, climate, tradition, and economy between the two countries, Jamaica and the United States of America are extensive.
In The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, for example, Kahf writes that, “Wajdy and Ebtehaj always viewed their stay in America as temporary […] But the return kept getting postponed” (Kahf 131). Throughout the story, something always gets in the way of Khadra’s family returning home, whether it is their children obtaining a college degree or the need to do more work at the Dawah Center. Similarly, in In Search of Fatima, Ghada explains that, “Neither of [their] parents wanted to integrate [them] into British society, even if they had been able to. [Their] father regarded [their] stay in England principally as a means of acquiring a good education” (Ghada 207). Consequently, the families, and the parents especially, feel isolated from society in their new homes. Especially in Ghada’s case, the reader observes how the children, who naturally become more integrated thanks to their education in the school system, begin to feel less close to their parents. Indeed, this characteristic of both Khadra and Ghada’s families demonstrates the unique situation in which many Muslim migrants find themselves. For some, their move is seen as temporary at the beginning, which provides no incentive to integrate. However, this ultimately makes their lives in the new country more difficult and
Both Jamaica and the U. S have their strong suites but in terms of where is better for a child to grow up the United States is the better candidate. A good government is the key to having a successful country and the U.S has that. The health care system is much more reasonable and allows many more people to be covered. Plus the educational system is superb. So to ensure that a child grows up in the best possible environment with the best possible access to resources they may need throughout life, should be raised in a stable country such at the United States of
The Caribbean countries are not taking this lightly. Fortunately they are bringing together intelligence and police forces as well as customs experts in order to combat the problem. However, the article goes on to mention that these are impoverished countries battling against wealthy crime organizations. Who has more power? Along those same lines, an additional cause for concern is the possibility that these same crime organizations may seek political positions or strong-arm Caribbean country governments so that they can effectively operation without much interference. Many members of these crime organizations have been educated in crime in the north and have been deported back to their homelands. This makes for far more sophisticated criminals than their local counterparts. Jamaican authorities say that a great deal of their criminal activity and high per capita murder rate is solely attributed to the problem of deportees.
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