Each Part must be 2 Pages in length.
Part A (2pgs)
1. (a) Drawing from your texts and other sources, present arguments for either Liberalizing or Restricting immigration in the United States.
(b) Why are nationality and religion used to oppose immigration?
Part B(2pgs)
2. (a) Drawing from Nancy Foner’s book, “One Out of Three”, choose an immigrant group that settled in New York in large numbers after 1965 and discuss that group’s adjustment in the areas of economic, political and cultural experiences.
(b) Briefly present a critical analysis of the recently proposed Immigration Bill, which seeks to grant “a path to citizenship” to undocumented immigrants in the US.
Part C(2pgs)
3. The authors (Immigrant Life if America) presented a “basic classification of immigrant types”. Name and briefly discuss any three of these immigrant types, focusing on areas such as characteristics of socio-economic origin and motives for departure.
Part D(2pgs)
4. How would you characterize the contemporary immigrants’ experience with the American occupational and educational systems?
Readings:
Portes, A. & R. Rumbaut (2006) Immigrant America: A Portrait (3rd edition) University of California Press.
Foner, N. (2013) One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Columbia University Press.
