EXTRA CREDIT MAP TEST THIS WEEK
ESSAYS DUE TODAY
Chapter 3: Key Issue 4
Migration Project
45 MINUTE WORKDAY : October 9/10DUE: October 13/14PRESENTATIONS: October 15/16
Where are you coming from? Why are you moving? How is your life different since your move?
Possible ways to turn your project in: email ([email protected]), flash drive, on paper, etc
Immigration Basics
Intervening Obstacle: What is it? Can be environmental or political Example in the past? Example in the present?
Quota: What is it? US 1924 quota: meant to ensure what? US 1978 quota: what was the major change?
Three admission preferences Family reunification Skilled workers Diversity *These preferences do not apply to whom?*
Brain Drain
Brain drain: What is it? Good for whom? Bad for whom?
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Unauthorized Immigration
Unauthorized immigrant: someone who enters a country illegally, without the proper documentation
11.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the US
Mexico’s dilemma: US vs Guatemala
Ravenstein Revisited
Long-distance: male and individual adultsToday: the gender pattern is reversedToday: Still mainly individual adults
US Views on Unauthorized Immigration
Border PatrolsWorkplace and Amnesty Civil RightsLocal vs Federal (border state differences)Participation in Programs
Semantics
Why are they important? Examples?
Unauthorized Immigrant vs Undocumented Immigrant vsIllegal Alien/Illegal Immigrant
IMPORTANT: Disapproval of unauthorized immigration in America is not the same as disapproval of immigration as a whole
European Immigration
Inter-European immigration has increased: why? Schengen Agreement and other legislation Largely south-to-north in the 20th century
Anti-immigration sentiment in Europe: why? Not against unauthorized immigration Issue is the fear of culture loss and loss of traditions Difficult to understand because of the immense
amount of European emigration in the past and the culture they brought with them
Tan Le: “My Immigration Story”
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_my_immigration_story?language=en
