VSI Chapter Three Reading Questions & Changes to the Syllabus

Please note the following adjustments to the syllabus:

1. Chapters 3-7 of VSI will each be a session later than indicated; 
2. Read the New Yorker article, "The Measure of America," and write a response paper of 1000 words, due in TurnItIn.com by noon next Friday, 4/15; and 
3. The Final Exam will be replaced by your reports on the candidates' immigration positions (see links on this blog site). The reports will be due in class and in TurnItIn.com by noon on Monday 4/25 and will be followed by in-class debates.

For Monday's class, please read Chapter 3 of American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction, and prepare written answers to the following questions:

• Why did World War II cause America to rethink its immigration policies? (45)
• What was the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952? (46)
• What was the refugee situation at the end of World War II? (46) And why did the U.S. feel the need to do something about it? (47)
• What is the Displaced Persons Act of 1948? (47)
• What is presidential parole power, and how did Eisenhower use it? (47)
• How were Cuban and Vietnamese refugees able to integrate so rapidly? (48)
• What led to the overturning of the quota system? (48-49)
• What did the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act do? (51-52)
• What were the unintended consequences of the law? (53)
• What does the book say studies have shown about the link between immigration and crime? (54)
• What caused the huge rise in illegal immigration from Mexico? (56)
• What attitudes changed and what laws were enacted because of the recession of the 1980s? (62)
• What did George W. Bush do? (63)