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47 Cards in this Set
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What was the specific issue that was contested in local politics in Farmingville?
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Illegal immigrants getting jobs. Businesses would pick them up on a main road in Farmingville. Which led to a lot of "illegal immigrants" lined up on a busy street.
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What did local authority decide?
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Decided to build a center to hire illegal immigrants and then it was vetoed because they are illegal immigrants.
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How did this local dispute gain national attention?
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The SQL got involved, formed a group to politically fight against the illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants were beat up and murdered. The Farmingville rallies sided with racist people mostly because of donations. But the issue got out of hand and got people's attention.
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What was the consequence of such national attention for subsequent process of local dispute?
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How to accommodate turned into to how to exclude illegal immigrants. How to make their lives suck. Their overall original point to stop the hiring of illegal immigrants on streets and in general, turned to racial violence.
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What are the past two explanations on the successes of Asian Americans?
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A) Ethnic Culture Explanation
-Values and beliefs of Asian immigrants B) Structural explanation -Pre-immigration S.E.S. -Ethnic enclave economy (Capital accumulation) and Educational training. |
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Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA of 1986)
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Target: illegal immigration
Background: 1) The end of the Braceros program 2) The 1965 Immigration Act limited the possibility of unskilled and uneducated people to migrate to the U.S. 3) Made it illegal to knowingly hire illegal immigrants |
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Immigration Act 1965
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1.Eliminated nation-based quota system.
2. Established preferences a. Family Ties b. Special Skills c. Refugee Status 3. Maximum quota (170,000/yr, 20,000 nation) |
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Immigration Act of 1990
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Revised 1965 Immigration Act.
1. Increased annual maximum to 700,000 2. Gave preference to diversity (underrepresented get preference, Kennedy added Ireland to the list) 3. immigrant Investors ($1 million for green card) |
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Immigration Act of 1996
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1. Retroactive
2. No appeal 3. Incarceration before deportation 4. Reduce eliminate a judge's discretion |
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Birthright Citizenship
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Baby born in country is an automatic Citizen
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Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009
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Introduced in the U.S.
-A person born in the United States to parents, are of whom is 1) a U.S. citizen 2) A lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the U.S. armed forces. |
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Anchor Baby
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Illegal's baby to ANCHOR them to the US
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Psychological Gentrification
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old country women can't talk back to men, new country (U.S.) new norms are formed
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Which six states are absorbing 70% of newly arriving immigrants today?
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Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey
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Proposition 187
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(Nov. 8, 1994) Made illegal aliens ineligible for:
1. Public Health Care Services (unless emergency) 2. Public school education at elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. 3. Public Welfare Vote: 59% (for) vs. 41% (against) |
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Segmented Assimilation
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A particular immigrant group tends to assimilate into a specific sector of America Society.
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Tied Immigrants
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Female immigrants are ____________, meaning that women have tended to immigrate with en who come to the U.S. for economic opportunity.
-A. Economic deprivation at home and opportunity in the U.S. -B. Social Network (Female only) -C. Family Decision (which usually means "men's" decision to migrate. |
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Dubious Minority Status
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(model minority) Minority groups that have achieved social advancement sufficiently but continue to clame minority status. (Applied to Asian Americans, Cuban Americans)
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Immigrant Optimism
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underlying the idea that anything is possible in the United States.
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What law did the city of Hazleton (Pennsylvania) pass in 2006?
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Local law:
-Revokes the licences of business that employed illegal immigrants Fines landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. |
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Immigrant Pessimism
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underlying the idea that despite the opportunities that can be found, not everything is equitable in the United States and, in fact, some people find that they are blocked from taking advantage of the opportunity structure.
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What did the federal appeals court decide about this Hazleton law on September 9, 2010?
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Federal Court of Appeals decision struck down the law because it infringed on the federal governments exclusive power to regulate immigrants.
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Ethnic Pan-Asianism
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an identity that emphasizes a shared "Asian culture, marked by certain orientations and values, such as an emphasis on education, family and work.
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What are some types of ethnic conflict? What is an example of each type?
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1) Violent Confrontation- Violent fights
ex) Illegal immigrants getting work and American people burn down their houses. 2) Non-violent confrontation- Start up political groups 3) Expressed hostile sentiment- Shit written or said to offend |
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Patterns of Immigrants Settlement
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1. Concentrations- 6 States absorbing 70% of new arrivals Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey
2. Diffusion- non-traditional states are getting more immigrants 3. Uneven settlement- the reason immigrants are settling in non-traditional states because of the job opportunities -Silver city, North Carolina A. 1990: 3% of 4,800 B. 1998: 35% of 6,000 4. Segmented assimilation- A particular immigrant group tends to assimilate into a specific sector of America |
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Asian Fields
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Asian Americans are not only academic achievers, but they are achievers in particular fields, namely, medicine, engineering, computer sciences, and increasingly, law.
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1.5 Generation
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U.S. born and/or U.S.-raised children of Chinese immigrants, are regarded as the best positioned to achieve, due to their native, or near-native, English facility and their parents' immigrant drive.
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Name two industries that have been dominant in the Chinese ethnic enclave.
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Restaurant and Garment
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Why do Asian Americans stress education so much?
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Immigration optimism- Model minority.
-Educational Success as a shield from discrimination. -Educational achievement as a part of "oppositional ethnicity" (Cultural tension unequal experiences) |
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Borrowed Approximations
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Development of Understanding as one learns of minority experiences.
Personal acquaintances with people of another race |
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Global Approximations
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Development of Understanding in terms of general humanism (poor blacks and whites struggling and fighting for the same thing but they are fighting against each other.).
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Overlapping Approximations
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Development of Understanding as one encounter similar experiences based on personal identity (gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc..)
Relating ones own oppression to that of others |
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Understand a "triangulated" racial order in America.
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-There is a racial triangle consisting of black, white and Asian.
Black -white line : inferiority vs. superiority White-Asian Line: American Vs. foreigner Black-Asian Line: Asians see blacks as inferior while blacks view Asians as foreigners. -Asians as "Forever Foreigners" 1) Appearance 2) Personality/Character: -Focused, Narrow, Not well rounded -Traditional, pessimistic, serious, non-expressive, nerdy, non-Athletic (except martial Arts) 3) Culture : - Language, Food, clothes, etc.. -Values 4)Media |
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What are the reasons that Asian American students felt alienated from Hunter College?
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First and foremost, they did not think that the school was prestigious enough in the academic hierarchy set forth by their parents.
-Second, most had struggled with school before ever coming to Hunter, Their difficulties, for some in the high school years, and for other sin college, would hardly have qualified them as super-achievers to begin with. -Not having a campus students go to school and then go home |
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What is the essence of Cornel West's point on how to engage in a serious discussion of race in America?
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Wrote Race Matter; we must begin NOT with the problem of black people but the flaws in American Society, and long standing cultural stereotypes.
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What does Louie mean by "an apparent paradox" and "irony?"
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-Asians at Hunter see themselves as failures because they are at Hunter and not some ivy league school like Colombia. They blame their parents for their failure because their parents had to work hard and did not help them with their education.
-The ____ is telling, as my Hunter respondents ended up continuing to support a script that cast them as failures, or at the very least, as outliers. |
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What are two "race neutral strategies" adopted in Monterey Park, California, to stop the influx of Chinese into the community?
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English only and Slow growth Policy
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Why do Asian Americans choose "Asian fields" as their major?
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-Asian Americans tend to take their parents' opinions into consideration and thus view the career decision-making process as more of a collective enterprise rather than an individualistic matter.
-It is not an education in itself. It's more like, get your education so you can make money. |
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Can we talk about race?
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1) Are we allowed to?
-Social pressure issue 2) Do we know what to talk about race? -Knowing issue 3) Do we know how to? -Compatibly issue (when people get annoyed they shut down) 4) Who is included in/excluded from "we"? -Opportunity issue |
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According to Douglas Massey, what historical conditions, that were available for structural assimilation of Europeans in the 19th and early 20th century, are lacking today? What characterizes immigration in the 1990's?
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Lacking: A. A long hiatus
B. A sustained economic expansion. Characterizes: A steady flow of immigration B. Hour-glass background C. Lack of robust economy for upward mobility D. Well-established migration network E. Linguistic concentration----Spanish |
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Overall, what is Louie's point about the Asian American experience and the significance of race in the U.S.? Does Louie think that the success of Asian Americans indicates the diminishing impact of race?
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She thinks the success is based on cultural norms. The model minority has formed them stereotypes.
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What are some recent sources of immigration?
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1. Foreign direct investment: american policies and practices in the 3rd world, restructuring of economy, womens entry into the workforce, displacement of farmers (unemployment, immigration for economic opportunity)
2. dissemination of western culture |
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How did Asian American students rationalize their having "ended up" at Hunter College?
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-Pointed to a lack of parental resources, one result of their parents' labor-intensive jobs and low incomes.
-These respondents believed that the push for education in their families has been weaker, due to the challenges faced by their immigrant parents-coping with limited education, limited fluency in English, jobs in manual labor, and a low standard of living that could lead to martial strife and financial stress. -Money was the chief reason why Hunter respondents ended up there. |
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How is Louie's study different from these two explanations? (A. Ethnic Culture Explanation
B. Structural explanation (ESSAY QUESTION) |
-The impact of these two conditions is contingent upon Asian immigrants interpretive process to formulate the lines of action.
- Thus, we must understand more micro-level Contingenses: 1) What do parents say to children about the U.S. and about the importance of education (a particular type of education) 2) How do children receive parents message? -Parents pressure for Asian children to major in certain majors. |
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Why is the push-pull model no longer sufficient to explain recent immigration?
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Push-pull factors are not as simple as they were before
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Dissonant acculturation
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children learn English and American values and beliefs
and lose their culture at a different and faster rate than do their parents. |
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Consonant acculturation
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parents and children learn English and the new culture
at approximately the same time |
