SOCI 440 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Human Capital, Deportation, City
20 Nov 2018
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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-
