IRG 320F Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Maastricht Treaty, Good Moral Character, Single European Act
10 May 2016
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Integration: successful with language proficiency and education, failures because of host: Backlash: xenophobia, social unrest, violence against minorities, rise of right-wing, national groups and parties. History of us immigration: beginning in the 1500s, earliest migrants. By force from west africa: 1790 naturalization act. Repealed in 1870: by mid 1800s, migrants arrived to us from. China, burlingame treaty: 1864: immigration act (act to encourage immigration, 1870: naturalization act. Eligibility to people of african descent: backlash begins, chinese weren"t eligible to be naturalized after 1870, 1882: chinese exclusion act. Repealed in 1943: 1917l immigration act (asiatic barres zone act) Literacy test required: 1921: emergency quota act, 1924: immigration act (national origins quato act or johnson-reed act, 1943: bracero agreement, 1952: refugee relief act, 1962: migration and refugee assistance act, 1965: immigration and nationality act (hart-celler act) More visas for refugees: 1986: immigration reform and control act. Pathway to residency for unauthorized immigrants: 1990: immigration act.
