In the documentary by Jose Antonio Vargas titled “Documented”. Vargas illustrates his life story and constant struggle of lacking the necessary paperwork to live in the United States. Throughout the documentary, Vargas brings a new light to the issue of immigration in the United States. Vargas focuses on the idea of immigration reform and pushes for reform through the large population of undocumented immigrants. Jose Vargas being one of the eleven million undocumented immigrants, he uses his own personal experience as an example of how difficult it is for an undocumented immigrant to become documented. Vargas has been in the United States throughout his entire life, and has obtained high level jobs while being an undocumented immigrant. Vargas
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by Mary C. Waters. One of the main points in this article is how white individuals identify with a certain European descent as their ethnicity by that their family has arrived to the United States. In the 1920’s immigrations laws limited the amount of European immigrants that come into the US, a form of immigration control. Years after this policy the great grandchildren of those families identified as White where they had no connection to their past. The upcoming generations are born inside the US and thus they receive jus solis citizenship and they have the ability to identify as an American. The opposite of this trend occurred with the great grandchildren of people who migrated to the US during the 1990’s. These people chose to have an American but with their special ancestry by kept ties with their ascribed identity. These individuals had been born in the US but they chose to acquire culturally-related values and norms with their ancestry to allow for a feeling of uniqueness. Being solely an American is not the only identity these individuals identify. Their main identity as a white individual allows them to join a polity of life that affects them economically. Waters says there are “They have maintained some connection with their immigrant ancestors’ identities- becoming Irish American doctors, Italian American Supreme Court justices, and Greek American presidential candidates.” (Massey pg.230). This shows that being ethnically white does not limit one’s chances for upward social mobility. Waters states that some of these generations maintained their identity while the migrant parents and their children were residentially segregated, occupationally specialized, and generally
by Mary C. Waters. One of the main points in this article is how white individuals identify with a certain European descent as their ethnicity by that their family has arrived to the United States. In the 1920’s immigrations laws limited the amount of European immigrants that come into the US, a form of immigration control. Years after this policy the great grandchildren of those families identified as White where they had no connection to their past. The upcoming generations are born inside the US and thus they receive jus solis citizenship and they have the ability to identify as an American. The opposite of this trend occurred with the great grandchildren of people who migrated to the US during the 1990’s. These people chose to have an American but with their special ancestry by kept ties with their ascribed identity. These individuals had been born in the US but they chose to acquire culturally-related values and norms with their ancestry to allow for a feeling of uniqueness. Being solely an American is not the only identity these individuals identify. Their main identity as a white individual allows them to join a polity of life that affects them economically. Waters says there are “They have maintained some connection with their immigrant ancestors’ identities- becoming Irish American doctors, Italian American Supreme Court justices, and Greek American presidential candidates.” (Massey pg.230). This shows that being ethnically white does not limit one’s chances for upward social mobility. Waters states that some of these generations maintained their identity while the migrant parents and their children were residentially segregated, occupationally specialized, and generally