ANTH 264 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deferred Action, Economic Migrant, Anchor Baby
15 Apr 2018
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Controversy over health care use: -immigrant use of health care. Notion of medical citizenship (who deserves health care?) Convergence hypothesis: growing similarity among industrialized, labor importing nation- states. Policies, protests against agencies in response to immigration policies. Eligible if under 31 and came to u. s. before age 16, continuous residence and entered education system. Economic adaptation: -economic migrants tend to be favorably self-selected Emigration vs. immigration: leaving one"s home country to go to another country versus moving or settling in another country. Ethnic enclaves: immigrants flock to areas in which there others of the same ethnicity reside, creating small communities. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to view one"s own culture as best and judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one"s own standards. Fragmented health system: -variable and contradictory across states. 1. 5- immigrant children who moved here at a young age. Gordon"s model: all groups assimilate to the anglo saxon culture at different rates.
