Week 3: Checkpoint: Modern Challenges in Immigration

Irish Immigration

The group of my ancestry I have come to believe I relate more to is the parts of my father’s family who emigrated from Ireland in the mid 19th century. When the immigration from Ireland started it was mostly due to the matter that there was a large famine in Ireland and many people were trying to escape the fears of death that were around each corner. Some of the Irish came to America as indentured servants from family members f Americans who were living in Ireland at the time. The Irish were many times treated differently than most other Americans. Sometimes they were even treated as the African American slaves were. The Irish were many times forced to live in different parts of town segregated from the more ‘substantial’ people in the town. The segregation sometimes proved to be a hindrance to their culture due to the matter that if you were Irish and wanted to live in a different part of town than the place that was set aside for them they were treated as if they had deadly plagues among themselves.

The Irish were paid a substantial amount less than the other workers in the same field. When it came to the point of depression in the latter years, the Irish were some of the first to be laid off. The order of lay offs, in a world that was politically correct, would have been by seniority, but in the case the lay offs were basically by the ethnicity you were. Many of the indentured servants were lucky and were kept around as nannies, metal workers, and other different chores that needed to be done around the households of the wealthier families. The matter of the glass elevator was something that the Irish were often affected by because of the other races being able to get to the top of the social ladder quicker and without any question, whereas the Irish were having to push their way to the top as hard as possible and having to pull any string they could find that may help them out.

As I can not quite point out each and every trial that all...