How has immigration policy reproduced ideas about gender, race and class?
1917: the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The 1917 Act implemented a literacy test and increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival and allowed immigration officials to exercise more discretion in making decisions over whom to exclude.
The Act excluded from entry anyone born in a geographically defined
“Asiatic Barred Zone,” people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants.
1921: nearly 24 million immigrants arrived during what is known …show more content…
1942: The Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between
110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration shortly after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
1965: The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
1986: the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was passed, creating for the first time penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal immigrants.
1994: California’s Proposition 187 passed in 1994, attempts to deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants; although the referendum does not specify immigrants from Mexico and Latin
America, its execution would certainly be aimed at these groups
How would you incorporate these policies and guiding questions into your lesson
1917: the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The 1917 Act implemented a literacy test and increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival and allowed immigration officials to exercise more discretion in making decisions over whom to exclude.
The Act excluded from entry anyone born in a geographically defined
“Asiatic Barred Zone,” people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants.
1921: nearly 24 million immigrants arrived during what is known …show more content…
1942: The Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between
110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration shortly after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
1965: The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
1986: the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was passed, creating for the first time penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal immigrants.
1994: California’s Proposition 187 passed in 1994, attempts to deny schooling and medical care to illegal immigrants; although the referendum does not specify immigrants from Mexico and Latin
America, its execution would certainly be aimed at these groups
How would you incorporate these policies and guiding questions into your lesson