M11: Crimigration

• Warren, Robert. (2019) Sharp Multiyear Decline in Undocumented Immigration Suggests Progress at US-Mexico Border, Not a National Emergency, Center for Migration Studies. accessed 18 March 2019. (https://cmsny.org/publications/essay-warren-022719/)

If you have not already done so, finish reading:

Criminalizing Migration

• Lower East Side Tenement Museum “History of the Undocumented Immigrant,”

• “How Immigration Became Illegal:”

• Democracy Now, interview with Aviva Chomsky, May 30, 2014

• Waters & Kassinitz (2016) War on Crime and War on Immigrants

Data - How Many are Undocumented?

• MPI Unauthorized Immigrant Population Estimates by StatePews - Frequently Requested Stats 2016

SUGGESTED

• Blog post on sources of information on undocumented

• watch Immigration Reform - Frontline (1h57mins)

Banning Migration

• [listen] “We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban’s Place in History,” The World, Public Radio International, February 1, 2017.

• Tyler Anbinder, “Today’s Banned Immigrants Are No Different From Our Immigrant Ancestors,” February 7, 2017, American Historical Association blog.“

• 135 Years Ago, Another Travel Ban Was in the News,” New York Times, March 17, 2017

• Alan M. Kraut, “‘Make America Great Again’--Again?” Center for Migration Studies, January 3, 2017.

Data:

• View the NYT article with lots of historical data on migration movements.

• Interactive International Migration Map

• CMS's database on undocumented

Additional Resources:

• Forty-one years ago, the US took a big gamble on Vietnamese refugees

• U.S. public seldom has welcomed refugees into country

• This Grocery Store Cleared Its Shelves Of Foreign Foods To Make A Statement About Racism

view Prezi (https://prezi.com/view/WiHdnILs6G5RRdvYXXLB/) 

US Immigration Legislation Online

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

• 1892 Geary Act (extends Chinese exclusion act additional 10 years)

• 1892 Wong Wing v. United States (Bill of Rights Protects Illegal Aliens as well)

• 1917 Immigration Act (aka Asiatic Barred Zone Act)

• 1924 Immigration Act (aka Johnson-Reed Act)

• 1943 Magnuson Act (repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act)

• 1943 Bracero Program

• 1945 War Brides Act

• 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran Walter Act)

• 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Cellar Act)