Chapter 7

In this chapter I was shocked to learn that by making immigration into a cooperation like business it actually improved the conditions of the people who traveled to other countries. By turning it into a big business I would assume that the shipping industries would be more concerned with profit and not the welfare of the passengers. I was also shocked to learn that people immigrated not only went to America, but some went to Argentina and Brazil, I would like to know what the push and pull factors were to bring people to those places. It could be assumed that it was economic,but why then would only a few groups of immigrants go to those places? why was it not more diverse? in this chapter I was also shocked to  learn about what Arab immigrants went through wen they settled here, it was not a story I had heard or been taught before this class.