Highly Educated African Migrants Find Themselves Trapped in Cycle of Poverty in America

[Marvel]

Funny story. I was working with a laborer and he was a late middle aged African man. Very dignified and humble. So one night we are talking in the work truck and we started talking about people having it hard and its spun off into the bible. Dude was running down scripture and peoples speeches and thesis on scripture. I asked him damn dude you really know the bible and bible history, he laughs and is like yeah in (I think it was) Nigeria I was a theology professor. I'm like wtf you doing as a 13hr laborer?? He couldnt get the proper working papers for some reason and had to do this. Felt bad for that dude.

Good story. It is not the paperwork issue all the time. Many are here legally, there is just extreme discrimination on so-called black men whether born here or overseas. There are a lot of Ghanaian and Nigerian men with graduate degrees that working those type of jobs. Some have to resort to be being car salesman, some drive cabs, some do security, etc. Its a lot of discrimination out there unless you a have licensed skill. Pharmacy, Nursing, CPA and Engineer are the type of careers that are hard for Esau to discriminate against.

 

[rantanamo]

I think people don't get the immigration process of the US. If you aint comin on a , new business, medical, work or education VISA your credentials are pretty much worthless. That's why I often refer to the creaming effect on here. Even those not coming on those VISAs are still the types that might have that education, or at least have that ambition. So I laugh at the notion of someone coming here and sucking off the government. If they are, the government has made them do it. I used to date this Iranian chick, and all of her friends and family were religious refugees. They all lived pretty poor here. I went to one of their Bahai'i gatherings and learned all these people were doctors, nurses, teachers, etc and the older people said it wasn't worth fighting for. Instead they were tough on their children getting degrees and making sure they made it through school. The chick's dad was a professor there, and scraped up money with his brothers to buy a couple of towncars and dude started a towncar driving business. Ten years later now, and the chick and her sisters are dentists and doctors. Bought parents a new house and got them out of poverty.

That's not a story of anyone making it out. Just more of a story of all those people were educated, but they didn't come as the right kind of immigrant so they ended up living off the government for what the girl said was probably from the time she was in 5th grade to college. So when these Repubs start talkin that shyt about immigration I give them the . Do they really know how this country works? If you don't come here on their preferred VISAs they are trying to throw you down even though they know who these people are. I get the slippery slope argument, but the numbers aren't close to great enough for that. You(the feds) are making these people struggle and rely on them on purpose, while politicians complain about it.

 

[TTT]

If you do not have a degree from a US college you will have to be extremely lucky or have come through sponsorship by a company. The biggest problem is that in some of the professions like medicine and law you are probably better of if you have graduated within the system, those degrees are in highly regulated areas such that you cannot practice without going for additional exams. It is also likely the same in other professions, where you graduate from is an important aspect for getting employment even among American citizens. If you were a top professional in an African country you still hold a degree from an African country and the same process that would discriminate someone from a lower ranked regional state school would be even more pronounced from someone coming in from an African country. If you are a migrating for the first time you have bills to pay and need to survive so you pretty much have to find anything that allows you to do so because you cannot defer income while reentering the college system here. Even as a holder of a US degree you have to find that job quick before your time runs out and it is far easier finding one as a citizen than as a non resident alien. A lot of people get stuck between those extremes and that's why the children tend to have the better opportunity.

 

[Drip Bayless]

I know this shiit too well, my mom came here from Sierra Leone with an accountant degree, but that meant nada, she ended up going the nursing route.

Shiite is absurd, anyone who has a degree or did most of their studies in a poor country to me learned a lot more than their counterparts in this country.

Folks don't understand, fukking C's got you left back in most poor and African countries. Shiit when I came to this country, I was so ahead of most of my classmates in reading and math.

My mom is from Sierra Leone, she has 3 degrees and it was only this year she landed a 6 fig job. Pops is from Ghana, has a PhD and is highly overqualified for his job. Crazy

 

[Hardest Since MC Ren]

Most of you have no idea what you're talking bout

This isnt bout papers or racism

Its the fukked up immigration policies

I worked with a cat from Senegal who had a foreign Mechanical Engineering degree,but had to work as a mechanic for a few years[for like 15-16/hr]
He had to attend school for 2-3 years in the same field for his degree to hold any weight.
He is eating very well right now
Another Bosnian cat i knew went thru the same shyt
Most foreigners with degrees do not have time or money to go back to school
They get a full time job to support themselves and before they know it,its been 4 years