Chapter Sixteen Reading Questions

For Monday's class, please read Chapter 16, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• Why was their a resurgence of Nativism in the late 1970's? Why was "the image of gaining control" so popular?
• What were some recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy?
• How did the nativism of the 1980's contrast with the nativism of the 1920's?
• What four major provision did the Immigration Reform Act of 1986 contain?
• How many illegal immigrants took advantage of the amnesty program, and who were they?
• What is the "essential hypocrisy" of the law?
• What was the "paradoxical effect" of the law?
• What is "white collar nativism"?
• Who are the exception to the rule that few Western Europeans wish to emigrate?
• Have you seen evidence to support the statement, "Some who celebrate their own immigrant roots the loudest are among those who express fears about present or future immigrant invasions"?