HISTORY 40C Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Refugee Act, Dream Act, Culture War
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Empowerment movements: of people previously marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and of a newly energized. Cultural and social revolutions dramatically changed america, politics and economic policy became more conservative from the age of. Cut off most immigration by stopping the new immigrants from. Southern and eastern europe and reinforcing ban on asia, africa. Anticommunist cubans allowed into us as refugees after fidel castro"s communist revolution in cuba (1959). Ended national origins quotas on immigration (immigration act. Substituted criteria of national origins with: skills, family ties, or. Opened way for growing immigration from asia, south asia, africa, Fall of saigon after 1975 brought a lot of people who fought with the. Admitted political refugees from communist countries (jews from. Banned economic refugees such as people fleeing haiti, wars in. Central america in the 1980s, and undocumented mexicans seeking work. Economic boom - 1980s and 90s attracted mexican and central. American migrants, both legal and undocumented, who wanted to work.