SOCI 440 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Human Capital, Deportation, City
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
Naturalisation and Immigrant Politics
What helps determine which immigrants naturalize and get involved in
politics? What role have immigrant politics play in the past, and what role are
they playing in this election?
o Fear of ‘foreign element’ may do America, taken contradictory
forms over time.
o Lack of participation in American politics has been limited to the
more educated groups, those prevented from going back to their
countries of origin.
o Contextually, the massive waves of southern and Eastern
European who crossed the Atlantic in the 1890s and early 1990s.
Early twentieth-century immigrants were in a uniformly
disadvantageous position; with some exception their individual
educations and occupational skills were modest. American
government allowed them in but did not assume any responsibility
for their well-being, employers hired them but assigned them to
the lowest paid jobs.
o In contrast, the gradual consolidation of a global interstate system
means that most people today not only belong to a nation-state
but are aware of this fact.
PODCAST: Freakonomics podcast, “Is Migration a Basic Human
Right?” (2015)
o Naturalisation is the legal act or process by which a non-
citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that
country.
o Naturalized citizens should be eligible, but after living in the
country for a long, long time. (Albright)
o Lengthy asylum policies, border- argument for open borders.
o There are fundamental human rights- they accrue to anyone-
freedom of religion, speech, the right to move across the earth. It
seems like there is a sense of “some is taking my bread” (Albright).
o Immigration comes from fear of economic damage/lost, many
people are worried about jobs.
o Sensible regulation of migration- consider tremendous benefits of
migration, the vast economic cost of migration. Increased labour
may supress wage. Migrants bring a diverse of culture and
possibly job opportunity. When they are out of work they are
accused of “sponging off the state” (being dependent on the state),
when they are poor they are accused of driving the standards
down- can never win, endless battle.
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o “We are a country of immigration”
o In comparison, women working in the 1940s aided the economy
immensely. Some of them would have been in competition with
low-skilled men.
o Tax and control change, monopolies to impose tax regulation,
contextually US, UK had an open border.
o European Union- less regulations, travelling to parts of Europe
without needing your passport or travelling freely (1980s).
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Document Summary
European who crossed the atlantic in the 1890s and early 1990s. Early twentieth-century immigrants were in a uniformly disadvantageous position; with some exception their individual educations and occupational skills were modest. Podcast: freakonomics podcast, is migration a basic human. Migrants bring a diverse of culture and possibly job opportunity. What would take you to emigrate: social/political/economic, move closer to family, loss of family members, job opportunity, immediate changes (war threats), explore/travel/disease, taxes, health care. Identity/belonging: language, safety, beauty, climate, calmer/peaceful, economic/job. United states for a specific purpose: temporary protected status- establishes a legislative basis for allowing a group of persons temporary refuge in the us (civil war, natural disaster, permanent residence- any person not a citizen of the united. Receipt card, which is given to individuals who become legal permanent residents of the us. (visa law) Immigration demographic- (quantity, long-term trend: decade that had the largest number of foreign-born (2000-
