ECON 113 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: David Gerber, Alien And Sedition Acts, Emergency Quota Act
Document Summary
United states of america: formed through allegiance to a constitution. Three waves of voluntary international migration that reconfigured the population: 1840s and 1850s. 2: 1965- present from late 1890s to wwi. The first two waves of immigration came from the transition from a rural, agrarian society to an urban, industrial society. Public image: irish ditch digger, polish steel worker, slovak coal miner, jewish garment worker, italian construction worker, mexican agricultural worker, japanese market farmer, chinese railroad construction laborer, etc . Race as defined by nationality & skin color. E. g. 1% of europeans and 25% of chinese potential immigrants in the late nineteenth century were rejected by the process. How is immigration today different from the way it was before? significant number enter the country illegally racial differences, overwhelmingly non-white de-industrialized american opportunity structure has less need for unskilled workers. How have immigrants advanced their status in american society? collective power from labor unions organized ethnic voting civil rights movements.
