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Immigration• Minority Groups• Immigration• Assimilation• Theories• Primary Sources• Article• Asylum• Test #2 next class
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” – Thomas Henry Huxley, Biologist
Title: View of Ellis Island Looking across water toward immigration station
Minority GroupCategory of people with unequal access to•power•prestige•wealth •education•targets of prejudice, discrimination•not based on numbers, but social status
Pros ConsOpportunities for women and racial minorities
Reverse discrimination
Diversity at work Undermines abilities of minorities
Diversity at college No longer needed
Affirmative action in news now California universities
What do you think?
Read about California Universities:http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/01/31/california-lawmakers-consider-putting-affirmative-action-in-november-ballot/Read about nation wide rulings: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/black-history-affirmative-action/5432107/
"Work on the Last Mile of the Pacific Railroad -- Mingling of European with Asiatic Laborers": From Harper's Weekly: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 13 Image created 1869
Chinese immigrants made up 90% of workers on U.S. railroads in mid to late 1800’s. However white workers did not allow Chinese immigrants to be in the photo marking the completion of the railroad to the West Coast
Music for the Nation: American Sheet MusicThe Chinamen must go by H. B. Pasmore.
CREATED/PUBLISHEDSan Francisco: Gibson, J. W., 1880.
History of Discrimination in Immigration Law• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: excluded Chinese laborers for 10 years
• Immigration Act of 1921: restrictions Southern and Eastern Europe, quota for each nationality.
Japanese American Internment During World War IITitle: Japanese residents at Civil Control station for registration
San Francisco April 1942
After Pear Harbor attack, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered that everyone who was one-eighth Japanese or more be confined in detention centers called “internment camps” with no trials, no crime charge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NVYBfZ310
Japanese American Internment During World War IITitle: Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil
Attorneys for Brown v. Board of EducationGeorge E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit congratulating each other on the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, May 17, 1954.
United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional
Ruby Bridges New Orleans, Louisiana 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the
integration of the New Orleans School system. She is known as the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South
Oct 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA --- Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past demonstrators protesting desegregation at Baltimore high schools..
Cesar Chavez 1960’s Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. His work led to numerous improvements for union workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeo-q-8MOQ4
Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy Cesar Chavez breaks his 25-day fast by accepting bread from Senator Robert Kennedy, Delano, California.Left to right: Helen Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez March 10, 1968
When Filipino American farm workers initiated the Delano grape strike on September 8, 1965 to protest for higher wages, Cesar Chávez eagerly supported them.
July 31st, 2010 Temecula, CA “Small group protests the building of a mosque in Temecula” LA Times
Quote from PoemHuman Familyby Maya Angelou
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
History of Discrimination in Immigration Law
National Origins Act 1924: Southern Europeans and East Asians and Indians
1950’s eject suspected Communists from the country (usinfo.state.gov)
History of Discrimination in Immigration Law
Great Depression: Mexicans and Mexican-Americans faced mass deportation
Post World War II: 1954 "Operation Wetback," President Eisenhower, a speculated 1 million Mexicans deported along with their U.S. born children
Effects of Post 9/11 Security Measures
USA Patriot Act of 2001: put immigration under control of Department of Homeland Security
2003: Men from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in US, legal immigrants, had to register for the controversial National Security Entry-Exit Registration System or face deportation.
The ethnicity of immigrants was a focus during times of national crisis
Illegal Immigration
TermsImmigrant does not = illegal immigrant
Illegal immigrants also called undocumented workers/ undocumented students
Remember immigrant does not =Latino/a
Be respectful
Article on Immigration Solutions
(1) More border control.(2) Prevent employers from hiring undocumented immigrants.(3) Withhold government services from unauthorized immigrants.(4) Grant workers a path to gain citizenship or work permits.(5) Give police the authority and responsibility to identify illegal
immigrants (Arizona SB 1070)
Pros and Cons of the Solutions
(1) More border control.(2) Prevent employers from
hiring undocumented immigrants.
(3) Withhold government services from unauthorized immigrants.
(4) Grant workers a path to gain citizenship or work permits.
(5) Give police the authority and responsibility to identify illegal immigrants (Arizona SB 1070)
a) Which do you think is best? Why?
b) Which do you think is worst? Why?
c) List 1-3 other pros or cons for each solution. (Besides those already in the article)
Asylum
protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee
Asylum may be granted due toFear of return to country based on persecution related to:•race•religion•political opinion•social group
Must show:•10 years in U.S.•Otherwise clean criminal record•Relative who is U.S. citizen would suffer exceptional hardship if deported
Extra Credit Movie
Next classTest #2
Use Study Guide
•Come to class on time •Bring a scantron (standard 50 question scantron 882-E) and pencil•Study class notes, slides on website, articles and textbook reading assignments. Use the study guide!•25 questions, multiple choice
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Views against deportation of illegal immigrants
Views for deportation of illegal immigrants
(ICE= United StatesImmigration and Customs Enforcement)
Primary SourcesImages from the California Library of Congress1.Walk around and view all of the images2.Stand by the image that interests you most (NO MORE THAN 3 PEOPLE PER IMAGE)3.With the others at your image answer the following questions:
a)Why did you select this image?b)What do you think is happening in this image? Who? What ? Where? When?c)Why do you think this image was selected for class?d)Select a speakere)Return to your seats when you hear the buzzer
(Try avoiding group members that already sit near you)