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Immigrant America
Chapter One
We are a country conflicted:
We are built on immigrants- every one of you (save descents of slaves or Native Americans came here
through immigration
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Send these, the homeless tempest tossed to me
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We have a long history of Nativism-the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established
inhabitants against those of immigrants
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The first wave of European Immigrants 1880-1930
In the last two decades of the 1800s 23 million immigrants arrived
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Allowed them to
advance in social networks and their job

The new wave of immigrants was always at the lowest rung of the occupation ladder

Identity Politics- anti-immigrant sentiment- Nationalist Movement

The influx of unskilled workers displaced some unskilled migrant workers
Belief that the influx was somehow a threat the moral fabric of our country
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Whites and Christians will become outsiders in their own land

This led to the Restrictions Movement:
downturn in economy leads to less tolerance
The mass of newcomers ceased to be a source of free labor but began to come into completion with
native born men

European born workers had a more “socialist upbringing” and didn’t buy wholly into the capitalist
mindset of the exploitation of workers
Began to promote unionization and workers’ rights

Capitalists need to find a source of labor which could be exploited
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Good and services need to be sent west
to supply the construction of cities and towns
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Easy going through the Great Plains but the Rockies…

Import Chinese workers by the thousands
When the railroad was finished, we don’t want them anymore
They were seen as semi-human- worse than slaves
Pass the Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882

Pushed out of labor markets and into tightly knit communities: Chinatown

Hawaiian Sugar industry and California Agricultural industry needed labor
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Passed Alien Land Laws- preventing them from purchasing any land
Pushed out of agriculture, the Japanese spread out and started small businesses all over west coast
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Turned to the South and became shipping up Mexicans by the train load

Despite the threat; White nativist kept control over virtually all forms of power:
The courts
Schools
Government and laws
Economic systems- banks
Immigrants gained acceptance by adopting white nativist values and culture
The Great Depression
Became the greatest immigrant control method yet- immigrants do not want to come to a country with
no opportunity
World War IICreated a need for labor
Started to recruit Mexicans again to work agriculture
Also erased some of the prejudices previously held between European ethnic groups- men fought
together, women and children suffered together
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They were forced to
Americanize

Rebound 1970 – 2010
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In the 1960s 1/5 of Americans were either Mexicans or African American
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Remedy- civil rights legislation
Got rid of some of the worst most racists laws
New Immigration Act of 1965- set new guidelines

1970s America was changing:
Technological innovation- ease of communication and transportation
Foreign competition increased
US companies didn’t see it coming
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How many in service industry
companies moved production over seas for cheap labor
income inequality began to grow and grow
1996- only refugees receive a resettlement stipend and all legal immigrants are barred from welfare and
Medicaid, and SSI
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Great Recession- 2004
did wonders to stop US immigration
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Ethnicity in America

History of Immigration in US:
4 periods: the colonial period, the mid-19th century, the start of the 20th century, and
post-1965
Colonial period- fewer than 1 million immigrants came to the United States from
Europe between 1600 and 1799
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Mid- 19th Century- 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United
States
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• After an initial wave of immigration from China following the California Gold
Rush, Congress passed a series of laws culminating in the Chinese Exclusion Act
of 1882, banning virtually all immigration from China until the law's repeal in
1943
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20th CenturyThe peak year of European immigration was in 1907, when 1,285,349 persons entered
the country
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5 million immigrants were living in the United States
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The 1924 Act was aimed at further restricting immigrants from Southern
and Eastern Europe, particularly Jews, Italians, and Slavs, who had begun to enter the
country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s, and consolidated the prohibition of
Asian immigration
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The wave of immigrants into this country came to a screeching halt
during the Great Depression
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• The U
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government sponsored a Mexican Repatriation program which was
intended to encourage people to voluntarily move to Mexico, but thousands were
deported against their will
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• Most of the Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis and World War II were barred
from coming to the United States
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From 2000- 2005- 8 million people immigrated to the United States
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7 million of
them entered without papers
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In 1986 President Ronald Reagan signed immigration reform that
gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants in the country
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2 children per woman
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• Data from the U
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Border Patrol show a drop of more than 50 percent since
2009
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Last year, it was about 230,000
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• Child separation

• The construction industry collapsed during the recession
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• Mexicans who return to their native country generally find that they make more
money than when they left
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Central American Migrant Crisis:
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• Un accompanied minors
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The Hispanic-American population
• Fastest-growing in the United States

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More than 17% of the U
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population
By 2050, Hispanics will make up 30% of the populace
Hispanic-owned businesses grew 43
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Just 62
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• Latinos also suffer from a higher poverty rate than the general population
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Today, Latinos have outpaced blacks in population growth
Black businesses are booming
African Americans have a long tradition of military service, with black veterans
amounting to more than 2 million in 2010
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• Black immigrants lead immigrants from other racial groups in earning high
school diplomas
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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5% of the population
Asian Americans constitute one of the fastest-growing groups in the country
The Asian-American population is a diverse one
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• Considered collectively, Asian Americans stand out as a minority group that
has excelled beyond the mainstream in educational attainment and
socioeconomic status
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