For Monday's class, please read Chapter Sixteen, and prepare written answers to the following questions:
- Why was their a resurgence of Nativism in the late 1970's? Why was "the image of gaining control" so popular?
- What were some recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy?
- How did the nativism of the 1980's contrast with the nativism of the 1920's?
- What four major provision did the Immigration Reform Act of 1986 contain?
- How many illegal immigrants took advantage of the amnesty program, and who were they?
- What is the "essential hypocrisy" of the law?
- What was the "paradoxical effect" of the law?
- What is "white collar nativism"?
- Who are the exception to the rule that few Western Europeans wish to emigrate?
- Have you seen evidence to support the statement, "Some who celebrate their own immigrant roots the loudest are among those who express fears about present or future immigrant invasions"?
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