Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not native or where they do not possess citizenship to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to accept a job as a migrant worker or temporarily as a worker. Foreign
Most things get stronger when challenged regularly. This is how exercise and study work to improve our bodies and minds. This is the basic argument for how immigration strengthens tolerance. However, immigration, by challenging tolerance, also exposes intolerance. So you may get the impression that it causes more intolerance. It is not like this. The backlash against immigration that we see in many parts of the world is not a new intolerance, but rather an entrenched intolerance just exposed.
Tolerance is the basic need of everyone as our world became a global village, so there is less tolerance between different people in societies. To increase the level of tolerance, variety between people in one place is necessary.
A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey of nearly 1,700 Americans, including more than 1,000 in rural areas, reveals that attitudes toward immigrants form one of the widest gulfs between America’s cities and rural communities. Rural residents are more likely than people in cities or suburbs to think that immigrants are not adjusting to the American way of life. The survey also finds that these views are softened in rural areas with significant foreign-born populations.
So when there is variety in the culture of the country, tolerance will automatically increase due to interdependence.
Pakistan, my country is proud to be the largest refugee host country in the world according to UNHCR. According to his report, Pakistan hosts more than 1.45 million refugees and most of them are from Afghanistan. These refugees become immigrants because of the long Afghan war and now I don’t want to go back there. I personally witness that now these people live with the people of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan and love each other and their youngest children marry each other, this immigration of Afghans due to the war, however, increases the level of tolerance and interregional peace and harmony.
According to research from researchgate.net, all data collected from 1980 to today, all tolerance indicators have increased. As of 2005, the increase in tolerance is particularly striking. More French people declare themselves “in favor of the right of immigrants to vote in local elections.” more people see “immigration as a source of cultural enrichment.”
ยท Graduates have “the most tolerant attitudes toward immigrants and benefit recipients,” even when factors such as their income and social class are taken into account. A study conducted by researchers from NatCen Social Research and the Open University for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills analyzed the differences in social attitudes between graduates and those with other levels of education. He found that some of these differences were related to being a graduate, rather than other background factors associated with being a graduate, such as income level and type of job. “Higher education is expected to help students respond to the changing needs of society, but the growing number of graduates, with their distinctive attitudes, may well be driving further changes in society,” the research article says, published by BIS and entitled The Effect of Higher Education on Graduates’ Attitudes: Secondary Analysis of the British Social Attitudes Survey.
The conclusion we get from previous research and surveys is clear that immigration strengthens tolerance at all and yes, there are some cases where illegal immigration causes harm and instability in society.
The last but not least example of how immigration strengthens tolerance is the migration of Muhammad (peace be upon him) from Mecca to Medina and there they established the Islamic state of Medina where they established fraternal relationships with hosts and migrants. that the hosts gave their land, won over the immigrants and called them ansaars and muhajirs respectively.
JOHN F KENNEDY said that “immigrants everywhere have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.”