Social Science Report: Analyzing Immigration's Societal Effects

This report presents a social science analysis of immigration, focusing on its impact on cultural patterns, job opportunities, and discrimination. The study employs correlation and regression analysis to assess the relationship between immigration and cultural changes, revealing a significant impact. It further investigates how immigrants' qualifications affect job prospects for residents, finding complex relationships among education, language proficiency, and work skills. Additionally, the report examines the link between perceptions of anti-discrimination laws and experiences of discrimination among immigrants, analyzing various factors like color, nationality, religion, and gender. The findings highlight the multifaceted nature of immigration's societal effects and the importance of understanding its implications for both immigrants and host communities.

Methods in Social science
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INTRODUCTION
Social science theory is related with general theories that presents the actions as well as
behavior of the society on whole. It encompasses sociological, political as well as philosophical
ideas. Social theory is being utilized towards distinction as well as generalizing between different
kind of societies and to make analysis of modernity as it has been emerged in the past few
centuries. In the present study the issues faced by immigrants are being assessed as this relating
with the society who are facing certain issues due to immigration. The cultural patterns that are
being existing in the country is assessed. The question are being framed in accordance with such.
REVIEW
Immigration is regarded as the international movement of the individual into the
destination country of which they are not the natives. Further they do not have the citizenship for
the purpose of settling down specifically as permanent residents. With such there is various
issues attached that are being faced by the people of society. This is attached with both people
who are migrating and the one who are already residing internationally. This can be in terms of
job opportunities and cultural aspect. Along with this the extent to which the law are developed
related with discrimination among the country reveals the amount of discrimination that can be
done towards immigrants. These are regarded as several aspects that related with social science
which has greater impact on society in whole. Thus such factors are taken into accounts so that
study can be carried out in an effective manner.
The aims and objectives related with social science are enumerated in the manner below:
Aim:
The aim of the present research is: To identify if immigrants face discrimination issues
Research questions
 Do immigrants impact cultural pattern prevailing within country?
 Do immigrants qualification affects the job opportunities for the people who are the
resident of the country?
 What is relationship between individual’s perceptions about law against ethnic
discrimination in workplace and the discrimination among the immigrants?
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 What is the impact of government’s behavior & shared religious patter on immigrants’
way to feel closer to the country?
ANALYSIS
Theme 1: Immigrants impact on cultural pattern prevailing within country?
Correlations
Immigration bad or
good for country's
economy
Country's cultural life
undermined or
enriched by
immigrants
Immigration bad or good for country's
economy
Pearson Correlation 1 .589**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 1752 1739
Country's cultural life undermined or
enriched by immigrants
Pearson Correlation .589** 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 1739 1773
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Interpretation: In the above analysis table society changes and its impact on the people is being
assessed. This is important factors in the social theory. This is being done by the using tool such
as correlation. Correlation is regarded as the mutual association among the two variables. From
the table above it has been analyzed that value of significance is 0.589. This implies that it is
above 0.05. Thus it reflects that there is no significant difference among the variables. With this
it can be stated that immigrants to greater extent affects the cultural patterns that exists within the
country.
Theme 2: Immigrants qualification affects the job opportunities for the people who are the
resident of the country
Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate
1 .291a .085 .083 1.869
a. Predictors: (Constant), Qualification for immigration: committed to way of life in country, Qualification for
immigration: speak country's official language, Qualification for immigration: good educational qualifications,
Qualification for immigration: work skills needed in country
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ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
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Regression 545.792 4 136.448 39.082 .000b
Residual 5882.860 1685 3.491
Total 6428.651 1689
a. Dependent Variable: Immigrants take jobs away in country or create new jobs
b. Predictors: (Constant), Qualification for immigration: committed to way of life in country, Qualification for
immigration: speak country's official language, Qualification for immigration: good educational qualifications,
Qualification for immigration: work skills needed in country
Coefficientsa
Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized
Coefficients
t Sig.
B Std. Error Beta
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(Constant) 7.692 .128 60.297 .000
Qualification for immigration:
good educational
qualifications
.036 .024 .052 1.523 .128
Qualification for immigration:
speak country's official
language
-.026 .018 -.046 -1.489 .137
Qualification for immigration:
work skills needed in country -.068 .022 -.108 -3.115 .002
Qualification for immigration:
committed to way of life in
country
-.163 .020 -.224 -8.180 .000
a. Dependent Variable: Immigrants take jobs away in country or create new jobs
Interpretation: Regression is regarded as the measure of relation among the mean value of one
variable as well as corresponding value of other variables. The table above reflects impact of
variables relating to qualifications on the immigrants taking away the job or creating the job. It
can be interpreted that significance value of sound educational qualification is 0.128. This
reflects that such is higher than significance value that is 0.05. Hence there is no significant
difference among good educational qualification and job taken away by immigrants. This reflects
that educational qualification among the immigrants has greater impact on the immigrants taking
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job or creating job away within the country. This demonstrates lack of job opportunities for the
one who are local resident of the particular country.
Further the significance value of Qualification for immigration: speak country's official
language is 0.137. This reflects that such is higher that significance value that is 0.05. Hence
there is no significant difference among speaking country’s official language and job taken away
by immigrants. This reflects that speaking official language by immigrants has greater impact on
the immigrants taking job or creating job away within the country. This demonstrates reduction
in job opportunities for the one who are local resident of the particular country.
On the other hand the significance value of Qualification for immigration: work skills
needed in country is 0.002. This reflects that such is lower that significance value that is 0.05.
Hence there is significant difference among working skills needed within the country and job
taken away by immigrants. This reflects that working skills needed in the country has no impact
on the immigrants taking job or creating job away within the country.
Along with this the significance value of Qualification for immigration: committed to
way of life in country is 0.000. This reflects that such is lower that significance value that is 0.05.
Hence there is significant difference among Qualification for immigration: committed to way of
life in country and job taken away by immigrants. This reflects that way of life in the country has
no impact on the immigrants taking job or creating job away within the country.
Overall it can be stated that there is weaker relationship among the variables and
qualifications and creation or taking away of job by the immigrants.
Theme 3: Relationship between individual’s perceptions about law against ethnic
discrimination in workplace and the discrimination among the immigrants
ANOVA
Sum of
Squares
df Mean Square F Sig.
Discrimination of
respondent's group: colour
or race
Between Groups .074 10 .007 1.182 .298
Within Groups 10.857 1742 .006
Total 10.931 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
nationality
Between Groups .117 10 .012 1.041 .406
Within Groups 19.654 1742 .011
Total 19.772 1752
Between Groups .070 10 .007 1.034 .412
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Discrimination of
respondent's group:
religion
Within Groups 11.848 1742 .007
Total 11.918 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
language
Between Groups .052 10 .005 1.010 .433
Within Groups 8.902 1742 .005
Total 8.954 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: ethnic
group
Between Groups .112 10 .011 1.045 .403
Within Groups 18.682 1742 .011
Total 18.794 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: age
Between Groups .119 10 .012 .957 .480
Within Groups 21.605 1742 .012
Total 21.724 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
gender
Between Groups 1.023 10 .102 2.983 .001
Within Groups 59.713 1742 .034
Total 60.736 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
sexuality
Between Groups .009 10 .001 .299 .982
Within Groups 4.977 1742 .003
Total 4.986 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
disability
Between Groups .063 10 .006 .933 .501
Within Groups 11.854 1742 .007
Total 11.918 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: other
grounds
Between Groups .162 10 .016 .573 .837
Within Groups 49.354 1742 .028
Total 49.516 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: don't
know
Between Groups .001 10 .000 .109 1.000
Within Groups .999 1742 .001
Total .999 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group:
refusal
Between Groups .000 10 .000 . .
Within Groups .000 1742 .000
Total .000 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: not
applicable
Between Groups 1.901 10 .190 2.527 .005
Within Groups 131.105 1742 .075
Total 133.006 1752
Discrimination of
respondent's group: no
answer
Between Groups .000 10 .000 . .
Within Groups .000 1742 .000
Total .000 1752
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Interpretation: From the above table it can be interpreted that the significance in case of all the
discrimination variables that is on the basis of color or race, nationality, language, ethnic group,
age, sexuality, religion and disability, other groups is higher than 0.05. This implies that there is
no significant association among the variables. Such reflects that there is greater relationship
among individual’s perceptions about law against ethnic discrimination in workplace and the
discrimination among the immigrants. On the other it has been examined that discrimination of
respondent's group: gender has significance value that 0.001. This is less than 0.05. Hence is
there is significant difference among the variables. Thus implies that individual’s perceptions
about law against ethnic discrimination in workplace and the discrimination among the
immigrants on basis of gender have no relationship.
Theme 4: The impact of government’s behavior & shared religious patter on immigrants’ way
to feel closer to the country
Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate
1 .133a .018 .016 .567
a. Predictors: (Constant), Compared to yourself government treats new immigrants better or worse, Better for a
country if almost everyone shares customs and traditions
ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
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Regression 8.693 2 4.346 13.500 .000b
Residual 483.884 1503 .322
Total 492.577 1505
a. Dependent Variable: Feel close to country
b. Predictors: (Constant), Compared to yourself government treats new immigrants better or worse, Better for a
country if almost everyone shares customs and traditions
Coefficientsa
Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized
Coefficients
t Sig.
B Std. Error Beta
1 (Constant) 1.109 .067 16.480 .000
Better for a country if almost
everyone shares customs
and traditions
.067 .015 .115 4.343 .000
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Compared to yourself
government treats new
immigrants better or worse
.027 .017 .041 1.560 .119
a. Dependent Variable: Feel close to country
Interpretation: The table above reflects impact of government’s behavior & shared religious
patter on immigrants’ way to feel closer to the country. It can be interpreted that significance
value of Better for a country if almost everyone shares customs and traditions is 0.000. This
reflects that such is lower than significance value that is 0.05. Hence there is significant
difference among shared religion and immigrant’s way of getting closer to country. This reflects
that shared religion has greater impact on the way of immigrants getting closer to the country.
On the other hand it can be stated that significance value of government treats new
immigrants is 0.119. This reflects that such is higher than significance value that is 0.05. Hence
there is no significant difference among government treats and immigrant’s way of getting closer
to country. This reflects that treatment from government has greater impact on the way of
immigrants getting closer to the country.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the present study that immigrants to greater extent affects the
cultural patterns that exists within the country. This is because the people who are migrating to
another nation can be influenced by the change in the culture. Along with this it has been
inferred that way of life in the country has no impact on the immigrants taking job or creating job
away within the country. Further it is being assessed that individual’s perceptions about law
against ethnic discrimination in workplace and the discrimination among the immigrants on basis
of gender have no relationship. Moreover treatment from government has greater impact on the
way of immigrants getting closer to the country.
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