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ERIC ED406463: Anti-Immigration Movements in the 1990s: A New Persp...
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The United States has been through anti-immigration
movements every few decades since its founding. A new
face of the anti-immigration movement can be seen
emerging from current events including: (1) California's
Proposition 187, under which illegal immigrants are
barred from public education and teachers are required to
report illegal immigrants and their children to
authorities; (2) House of Representatives welfare reform
initiatives including student financial aid cuts and cuts
in job training; and (3) various ordinances making
English the official language. An important aspect of the
current anti-immigration sentiment is opposition to
Hispanic and Asian immigrants, as opposed to Anglo Saxon
immigrants. This focus on non-Anglo immigrants underlies
a larger conflict based on socioeconomic disparity, with
children and their education often getting caught in the
middle. The confused politics of liberals and
conservatives as they address immigration and related
issues, such as affirmative action in university
admissions policies, contribute to the present opposition
to immigration. It is argued that these new aspects tend
to weaken the traditional perspectives of race and
ethnicity, but tend to strengthen those based on
economics or social class. The end of the unifying force
of the Cold War has paved the way for these kinds of
social and political attitudes. (Contains 27 references.)
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Date Published: 2015-12-20 04:50:08
Identifier: ERIC_ED406463
Item Size: 28480668
Language: english
Media Type: texts
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