Immigration issues have been put on the center of the discussion table for years.
Mentioning the term, the first thing coming into one’s mind maybe Mexican or
Latino citizens secretly hide inside a cargo ship and risk their lives to cross the
border. But the new Chinese immigrants’ inflow creates no less influence. They do
not bring drugs but take brutal labor jobs, they do not come with families but live
more compactly with groups, they do not keep unnoticed but will actively show up
in churches and can get green card with much ease. The externalization of Chinese
migrant worker trend deserves more social and economic attention.
In this master’s report, I will unravel the puzzles of the Chinese immigration wave,
focusing on their pursuit of asylum fraud. In 2011, more than 32 percent of the total
21,012 asylum approvals are granted to Chinese nationals. In east Los Angeles area,
where undocumented Chinese conglomerate, low-end factories and shops, churchs,
and law offices form up a complete immigration chain service.
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The two main characters, Ai Peng and Guo Yinghua, represent the two universal
approaches among the Chinese community: asylum through reasons of religion
and birth control. Through interviews with professionals and scholars and existing
materials, I am intending to depict the real lives of asylees, evaluate impact of the
immigration wave, and raises legal and executive questions for improvement. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5114 |
| Date | 15 August 2012 |
| Creators | Yuan, Zhongyu |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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