Blog 8: Can migrations have a positive impact on the people and/or land receiving the immigrants?

Can migrations have a positive impact on the people and/or land receiving the immigrants?
In my opinion, cultures and countries can often benefit from immigrants. There are examples of this in history and our world of today.
In the 14th century, Poland invited Jews. The Jewish people brought with them knowledge, skilled artisans, and traders, as well as many other valuable techniques and ideas. This started off Poland golden age.
As well as introducing new ideas and skills, they encourage tourism, which allows more businesses, boosting the economy. Often, native citizens complain that the immigrants are taking their jobs. That is because many immigrants will do work for a lower pay and also better, creating competition. When my grandparents came to the US, my grandpa got a job at a flower shop because he agreed to work for a minimal wage. He was happy to have a job and his employers were happy to have such a worker.
Immigrants coming to a new country can also increase the population, making the country seem more important (as well as diverse). An increasing population also encourages more businesses, because more supplies are needed. Those businesses create more jobs and the money that is earned goes into other businesses, boosting the economy. According to www.marketwatch.com, immigration from 1990 to 2007 boosted the average annual earnings of native-born Americans from 0.7 to 1.8 percent.
Most immigrants usually move because of oppression in their native countries or better opportunities in other countries (or both). Therefore, many try their best to get good grades and jobs and use all opportunities that they are presented with. This creates competition for others, causing everyone to strive to be better, increasing the quality of education and the rate of development.
They come with knowledge of bad ideas (that made them migrate from their own country), making the country they come to less likely to repeat the mistakes of other countries.
In conclusion, immigrants often have a positive impact on the places to which they migrate and it’s citizens.