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Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Immigrants and the Definition of Steerage

States. This simple information thus far illustrates that those people in steerage were, first and foremost, considered less tha...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Post 1865 Minority Labor Organization Success

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

Immigration Policy Proposal by the G.W. Bush Administration

20). The premise is that both the workers and their employers would benefit from such a policy (p. 20). Cooper (2004) adds that th...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Summary of John Ashcroft's Consideration of Granting Abused Women Asylum

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

Canada's Homeless Immigrants

them to attempt to deal with the problem of language barriers and cultural differences. If the immigrant is not able to learn the...

U.S. Migration of Mexicans and Italians

are vast differences. For instance, quotas set had a direct impact on Italians trying to migrate from the southern portion of Ital...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Dade County, Florida and Haitian Immigrant Problems

the 1990s an estimated one million immigrants were arriving per year (Suarez-Orozco, 2000). The type of immigrants that arrived d...

Immigration and Migration of Chicago Since the Civil War

published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its...

Nancy Foner's From Ellis Island to JFK and Thirteen Immigration Questions

there are no two dominant groups among new immigrants to NYC as there was at the beginning of the twentieth century. On the other...

Immigration and Economic Considerations

ideas of Thomas Malthus and his theories on population growth. Then we can apply this to the UK. His theory was based on...

Early 20th Century Immigration and American Policy Influences

quoted poem "The New Colossus" as well as inscribed on the base of the Statute of Liberty, American immigration policy in the earl...

Immigrant Social Workers and Domestic Violence Implications

result in stressful family conflicts over role expectations and individual behaviors" (Bhattacharya, 2002; p. 175). Acevedo...

Early 20th Century U.S. Immigration of the Japanese

For the purpose of comparison two articles from vastly different publications were chosen from the extensive list which immediatel...

Immigration and Ellis Island

what is known as National Origins Act and this was responsible for a great decrease in the number of people who came to Ellis Ilan...

Early 20th Century American Immigration

Sometimes, however, they were simply viewed as a criminal element or as a political radical (Hay, 2001). Consequently, American i...

Immigration of Mexicans and Italians

amount of concern over Italian immigration today. Italy is a relatively small country that poses no stress to the United States to...

Justice and U.S. Immigration Policy

281 million people in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau Population Distribution, 2002). The population in the Midwest experie...

Pending Bill Legislation Number S. 2187 for the 2004 Haitian Refugee Immigration Improvement Act

2004, Pending Legislation Bill Number S. 2187. II. Social Problem...

Past and Present Immigration

In eight pages a comparative analysis of past and present immigration issues is presented in a consideration of any changes with v...

Immigration Impact of 1952's McCarran Walter Act

Act of 1952 passed which severely limited the immigration of anyone of colored persuasion to enter the United States. Only those o...

Mississippi Masala and the Immigration Experience

this Southern town oppose the relationship between a woman of Indian extraction and an African American. In a climatic scene, De...

Civil Liberties, Terrorism, and Immigration Laws

the arrests and the consequent interrogations that they were outraged and told officials that these tactics would not prove to be ...

Mexican Immigration and its Effects on the US

influx of Mexicans, there are ramifications. It seems that the Mexican immigrants are less educated and that has an effect on the ...