unemployment educational attainment
Is discrimination the reason why Africans are the most underemployed group in America?
Relative to thier educational attainment
African immigrants highest unemployment rates of all foreign-born groups..Right behind them are latin American immigrants. Africans are spending thier hard earned money for these prestigious degrees, but no one is hiring them. Why are these groups being passed over for jobs?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/23/ST2008102300319.html
Apparently you did not read the article very closely-here is the quote and answer:
“Michael Fix, a co-author of the study, said discrimination against Latinos and Africans might affect how they do in the job market, compared with Europeans and Asians. But he said much of the gap can be explained by the language skills and immigration circumstances common to people from each region.
For instance, highly skilled immigrants who speak only limited English are twice as likely to work in an unskilled job as those who are proficient in English. And 44 percent of Latin Americans educated at foreign colleges speak English poorly or not at all, compared with 32 percent of Europeans and 23 percent of Asians. LACK OF ENGLISH SKILLS.
Africans have the best language skills of any group. Only 15 percent speak English poorly or not at all. But it appears that this advantage is swamped by a disadvantage: Only 10 percent of the Africans are sponsored for entry by employers. By comparison, 42 percent are sponsored by family members, and almost a third are admitted through a government lottery program. Immigrants entering on such visas often lack the professional networks needed to find a job in their field. LACK OF CONTACT/PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS.
This is also a challenge for college-educated Latin Americans, who are the least likely to be sponsored by employers — with only 6 percent receiving such visas, compared with 16 percent of Europeans and 35 percent of Asians. “LACK OF VISAS.
1) Learn English
2) Get a sponser, friend, family, relative, employer-develop a contact, and
3) Enter the Lottery for visas.
4) NOT mentioned in the article-why higher foreigners when so many qualified Americans(any ethnicity) are in the same boat? and
5) Also, not in the article-most immigrants must pass a written and/or oral test in their field to be accepted in the US-others countries require this of Americans wanting to work in their country. If you do not understand English, you can not pass, if you do not pass, you can not work in your field.
Bottom line, it is not discrimination, but the lack of the above skills and advantages the idividual is not using REGARDLESS of ethnicity-the more of these skills/ proficiency-that is why Europeans and Asains do better, the more likely you are to find a job..
Education and Jobs
