Irish Immigration Sociology

During the century 18th came to the United States approximately 5 million of Irish immigrants. Their presence in the country caused a strong reaction among certain Americans, who denounced the Irish for their social behavior, its impact on the economy and by his Catholic creed. However, for the beginning of the 20th century already the Irish is had assimilated in a positive way. According to the United States Constitution, all legal immigrants have the right to become U.S. citizens and white immigrants have found relatively few obstacles in their attempts to do so. In spite of the hostility of the Native Americans, the Irish never faced racism compared with which was applied against the blacks and Asians, who are they deny citizenship or has restricted the entry into United States. The Irish had an advantage because of their Catholic identity and took advantage of the political opportunities impossible to obtain in Ireland; the Irish amounted constant and firmly in American society. In the year 1840, the Irish accounted for almost half of all immigrants in the United States, and a third in the period of 1850. These figures are

Some of the poorest lived in lower Manhattan of New York City. This neighborhood filled with homes of low level at which is find an Irish population that had bad habits and their way of life was very low. The poor Irish lived in basements, Underground cellars and they were suffering from diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Also suffered from mental illness and had problem of alcoholism. They were responsible for a large number of admissions to help the indigent in public hospitals, centers and was the population had higher arrests and imprisonments due to disorderly conduct had.ne single bedroom, had no service light apartments and frequently stagnant water were