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A 5 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares the experiences of Irish immigrants versus those of Puerto Ricans immigrants. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and the typical associated rise up the American socioeconomic ladder, is still ongoing, while people of Irish descent have long been fully integrated into the Anglo mainstream. Nevertheless, there are
also similarities between these two groups that derive from the forces that compel people to leave their homelands, as well as the shared experience of having to cope with ethnocentric
xenophobia, which appears to be a knee-jerk reaction of a settled people to an influx of new immigration who are perceived as "other." Examining the history of these two immigrant
groups highlights these points. The unique nature of Irish immigration is distinguished from other waves of immigrants by several points. First of all, unlike the waves that preceded them,
Irish immigrants came to the US in huge numbers, with few, if any, immigrants ever returning to Ireland. Unlike other immigration waves-"Italians, Greeks and Poles-the Irish, no matter how lyrically
they spoke about Ireland and its green hills, no matter how intensely they crusaded for the cause of Irish independence, had moved for good" (Diner 162). The population
of Ireland suffered tremendous devastation in the late 1840s due to the potato famine. The influence of this famine on generating the tide of immigrants that flowered out of the
island nation is difficult to overstate (Diner 164). Between 1845 and 1853, Irelands population was diminished by half, going from 8 million to 4 million people (Diner 164). Half of
this number died from starvation and malnutrition and the other half emigrated (Diner 164). Limited by funds, knowledge and opportunity, Irish immigrants generally took the least expensive route to North
America, which means that they streamed into Boston, but they also settled in other northern cities. The US had been a destination for immigrants since its earliest beginnings, but it
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