Reminder: From the information you have mined from the Ancestry.com database about an immigrant or immigrant family, you will write a report on what you have found and how it compares to what you have learned from the textbook. The report should be roughly 2,000 words and should include full citations of the records you use from the databases (census, passenger list, death index, etc.). You must attach a properly formatted list of your sources as well as copies of the documents.
Students will share their research findings informally in class.
For Wednesday's class, please read Chapter Sixteen, and prepare written answers to the following questions:
- Why was their a resurgence of Nativism in the late 1970's? Why was "the image of gaining control" so popular?
- What were some recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy?
- How did the nativism of the 1980's contrast with the nativism of the 1920's?
- What four major provision did the Immigration Reform Act of 1986 contain?
- How many illegal immigrants took advantage of the amnesty program, and who were they?
- What is the "essential hypocrisy" of the law?
- What was the "paradoxical effect" of the law?
- What is "white collar nativism"?
- Who are the exception to the rule that few Western Europeans wish to emigrate?
- Have you seen evidence to support the statement, "Some who celebrate their own immigrant roots the loudest are among those who express fears about present or future immigrant invasions"?
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