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- 2. Main theme The United States is now in the midst of a massive immigration that has
- 3. Why is a historical comparison of “then and now” important? There’s a popular tendency in the
- 4. Why is a historical comparison of “then and now” important? By acquainting us with what has
- 5. Focus of the Talk: Two Great Immigration Waves of the Past 125 Years Last great wave
- 6. Shameless Promotion
- 7. Six Parallels with the Past First: The United States is not experiencing large-scale immigration for the
- 8. Foreign-Born as a Percentage of the U.S. Population 1900 13.6 1910 14.7 1920 13.2 1930 11.6
- 9. Second: Work and Immigrants’ Place in the U.S. Economy Because many immigrants today arrive with low
- 11. Third: Where Immigrants Live Many newcomers to the U.S. today, like those a century ago, cluster
- 12. Fourth: The question of race in the U.S. It is often said that a major distinction
- 13. The question of race A hundred years ago, a common belief was that southern Italian and
- 14. The question of race Jewish and Italian immigrants were believed to have distinct biological features, mental
- 15. Fifth: Transnational Ties Transnationalism, or maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural ties to the home country,
- 16. Transnational Ties Large numbers of Italians (“birds of passage”) engaged in circular migration – going back
- 17. Sixth: Learning English A common fear is that today’s immigrants and their children are not learning
- 18. Learning English The standard three-generation model of linguistic assimilation still holds: the immigrant generation (arriving as
- 19. Learning English A recent U.S. study: 88 percent of second-generation Latinos 18 and older spoke English
- 20. The other part of the story: seven new aspects of immigration today There are many contrasts
- 21. First: Who the immigrants are, or the nature of immigrant flows A hundred years ago, the
- 22. Regions of Origin In 2010, more than four out of five immigrants were from Latin America,
- 23. Top Ten Source Countries of U.S. Foreign Born, 2010 (thousands) Number Percent of Immigrant Population Mexico
- 24. Numbers Today Immigrants today may be a lower percentage of the U.S. population than in 1910
- 25. Immigrant Population of the U.S. (in millions) 1900 10.3 1910 13.5 1920 13.9 1930 14.2 1940
- 26. Second: Undocumented Immigrants A hundred years ago, there were few restrictions on European immigration so that
- 27. Undocumented immigrants European immigrants came by boat – and most got through the ports of entry
- 29. Differences Today Today, if you don’t have authorization by US authorities, you can’t legally live and
- 30. Undocumented immigrants In 2012, a US citizen wanting to sponsor an unmarried adult child from Mexico
- 31. Third: Social and Economic Backgrounds of Immigrants Remarkable diversity of backgrounds today. Many of today’s immigrants
- 32. Fourth: Where Immigrants Live A hundred years ago, most European immigrants went to the Northeast and
- 33. Immigration in U.S. States
- 34. Fifth: Jobs and the Economy Given that a substantial minority of today’s immigrants have college degrees
- 35. Jobs and the Economy Legal status wasn’t an issue for European immigrants a hundred years ago
- 36. Sixth: What’s New About Transnationalism Transnationalism may not be a new invention, but much is new
- 37. Transnationalism Today A century ago it took two weeks to get back to Italy; today, immigrants
- 38. Seventh: Continuing Immigration In the past, there was a halt in mass immigration to the US
- 39. Continuing Immigration In 2011: 27 percent of immigrants in the US came between 1990 and 1999,
- 40. Conclusion As we look at immigration in 21st century America, it is helpful to view it
- 41. Conclusion Comparing immigration today and in the past dispels myths about heroes and heroines from a
- 42. Conclusion As a leader of an immigrant federation in Brooklyn put it a few years ago
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