Reasons for Immigration - Essay Example

Jodi shares what she has come to know as the driving force behind her parents’, as well as the countless Filipinos’, strong determination to leave the Philippines and find income opportunities in foreign soils: “I am grateful, you know, that my parents were strong-willed and brave enough to leave their families and friends to come here and find better opportunities for themselves, for our family. From what I have been hearing from the so many Filipinos here, the Philippines has become a very difficult place to live in.

Not only is it a still undeveloped country, but also it has gotten worse and worse because of the widespread graft and corruption in the government so that the gap between the rich and the poor is helplessly getting bigger and bigger. My parents’ families have remained poor not because they do not work to earn, but because there are simply no opportunities to earn. Added to it is the fact that my parents’ place in the southern Philippines, the Mindanao Island, has always been in the midst of armed conflicts between warring Muslim clans, or between Muslim extremists and the government.

Really tough life there.”