Immigrant Women’s Experiences

Every year, thousands of immigrants, especially from third world countries, cross their borders into the more developed countries looking to better their lives. A significant number of the immigrants are women. The tribulations women immigrants endure in the foreign countries is despicable. As a result, many women from different countries have decided to write about their experiences as immigrants, especially in America.

The US is full of opportunities and therefore a country full of immigrants. Even the people who are regarded as citizens can trace their ancestral roots to another country. For many centuries, immigrants in the United States of America, the so-called natives have looked down upon women. There are some instances in the United States’ history where African American women were denied the chance to shop in same shopping malls as the white women.

It is not only the African Americans women that have been subjected to discrimination in this nation, but also women from Asian countries experience overwhelming challenges to settle in this nation. The tendency of keeping their tradition, especially in the dress code has been a problem to a majority of Asian immigrants (DuBois and Dumenil 78). There have been instances where Asian immigrants have found it difficult to attend some social functions.

Immigrants have for a long time been denied some of their basic human rights. There have been cases where women immigrants have been denied their wages after working. Some employees even find it difficult to pay immigrants the same wages as the “natives.” In some extreme cases, women immigrants have been denied job opportunities that they were qualified to secure. Immigrants from Mexico have found it difficult to be accepted in the U.S as most people view them as drug peddlers and therefore handle them with suspicion (Zahra 3).

Harassment of women immigrants is not surprising because many immigrants are treated as second-class human beings who have no rights whatsoever (DuBois and Dumenil 78). There have been cases where women immigrants have been assaulted at their places of work, after refusing to do the extra things they instructed to them. This case is familiar with the immigrants working as waiters in bars. Most of the immigrants, especially those who move to the U.S. have minimum education levels. As a result, they tend to get jobs that are not restrictive in terms of level of education. These jobs are despised by other people and that is the reason why the women in these positions are discriminated against, sometimes not because of the backgrounds but because of the jobs.

Immigrants who have succeeded in the foreign countries have had to work extremely hard to achieve in their different fields. The ones who have made it as writers had to struggle to convince the publishers that their work was worth publishing. The reason as to why I used the sources is because they are reliable and are not biased.

Conclusion

Some of the challenges that women immigrants go through in their day-to-day life can be very despicable, but some of the stories by women immigrants describing their struggles to be accepted are inspiring. This is because some have bee.............