Latin American Immigration In The 1970s

The United States has had two main eras in immigration and these two eras drew migrants from different regions. Select the correct eras and regions.

One of the difference between the immigrants of the 1900’s and today is the country they originate. During the 1900’s, most of the immigrants who seek refuge in the United States of America came from Europe. Some small percentage of  immigrants came from Asia, Mexico and Cuba. As much of a diversity America truly is, today the percentage of the immigrants is mostly from Mexico and Cuba. Asia is followed right after the two and a small percentage of the immigrants consists of Europeans.

In addition to this major shift from rural to urban areas, a new wave of immigration increased America’s population significantly, especially in major cities. Immigrants came from war-torn regions of southern and eastern Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Croatia. This new group of immigrants

Immigration in the present primarily comes from Latin America. This occured due to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which encouraged

Mexican immigration has impacted many important components here in the United States of America (U.S.) and in its major institutions of society. In the following paper I will be focusing on the nature of social policies (or the lack thereof) that Americans had developed with respect to Mexican immigration by 1960. Specifically this paper will be detailing six different areas: the Mexican American War, Anti-Mexican American violence, Texas, the Great Depression, the Bracero program, and documented versus undocumented status. Each of these areas will be explaining the mistreatment that Mexicans encountered because of the nature of policy enactments by

Mexican Americans are americans that are partial or full mexican descent. In the 1920’s Mexican Americans legally and illegally immigrated to the United States, even to other countries.

Immigration through out the late 1800’s and early 1900’s created nativism throughout the United States. Millions of immigrants flocked to the United States trying to find a better way of life to be able to support their families. Industrialization in the United States provided a labor source for the immigrants. Native born Americans believed immigrants were a “threat to the American way of life” (ATF chapter 11) Social and economic fault lines developed between natives and immigrants, through out the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, going unnoticed until the late 1920’s when the Sacco and Vanzetti case brought awareness of issue to much of the United States.

Immigration soon began to go explode, but is wasn’t just one place immigrants were coming from, they were coming from many parts like Russia, Italy, etc. It was starting to pour in enough that

Latin American immigrants are not just concentrated to one area of the country. Cubans mostly live in Florida, while Puerto Ricans live in the northeast, and Mexicans mostly live in the southwest (Chavez, et al, 2005: 508). Their main destinations in the United States could be based on the geographic locations of their home countries. They settle in the area of the United States that is the closest to their country of origin. The formation of ethnic enclaves is common among immigrants because it connects them to their home country. They are able to livie among people who speak the same language, or in this case the same dialect, prepare the same food, and have the same cultural values. This spatial distancing is further proof of separate ethnic identities. Immigrants tend to live within groups of people from their own countries, not just with people who identify as Latino. By living with people from their home countries, immigrants maintain connections with where they came from.

My topic for the junior research paper has to do with the consequences of deporting illegal Latin American immigrants. As of right now I know that there are many illegal Latin Americans living in the United States and this group of people make up a large part of our workforce. Many different aspects of our economy could be affected by the removal of illegal Latin Americans. Some examples of this are farming, restaurants and landscaping. If the United States government did decide to get rid of the undocumented Latin Americans we would lose a large percentage of people who work the dirty jobs that help run our country as well as some important people in the MLB. As well as economical factors, many families in the US would be torn apart due to deportation of Latin Americans. Mothers, fathers and grandparents could all be forced to leave even though their child is a

Immigration through many decades has made Southern California the melting pot of culture that it is today. To use Los Angeles as an example, which has a population of just over ten million the mix of races in that area shows us that immigration has been a large part of culture change. Forty eight percent of Los Angeles 's population are Chicano, which would be due to the fact that it use to be Mexico, as well as the large movement north of Mexicans today. Another minority group that is a fairly large percent in Los Angeles is Asian. Fifteen percent of the population is Asian, which would be due to the large movement of Asians to the U.S after the Vietnam war. The largest group in the area of Los Angeles is still white. Nearly eighty percent say that they are part white. The white population in Los Angeles is mainly because of the gold rush, which brought over many Americans to the area.

Major countries in Latin America were countries built and shaped by immigration. Between 5 and 7 million Europeans immigrated to Latin America and the Caribbean on the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. This major transoceanic immigration to South America were voluntary migrants, Italian immigrants in Argentina are now days the largest ethnic group in their country, also are the Japanese in Brazil. The voluntary migration of Japanese and Italians in this transoceanic migration are the example of cultural adaptation of many. During the time period between 1860 to 2010, regions such as Argentina and Brazil responded to migration in economic and political ways. In Argentina labor migration came to Italy

Hispanic immigration to the United States stems primarily from uniquely developed push-pull migration mechanisms in which “interplay of national, regional, and global economic developments, the history of U.S. military and foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, the checkered history of international border enforcement and interdiction efforts, and, not least, the aspirations of Latin American migrants and potential migrants themselves” (Gutierrez). In other words, migration from Latin American to the United States shouldn’t have been consistent, however, there are several factors that triggered massive waves of such.

If they reached the land before they were caught by the authorities, they were granted political refugee status (9). This, as well as other circumstances helped cause the number of foreign-born migrants to increase eighty-one percent in the 1990s-2000s (3). More than half of the Hispanic population resides in the following states: California, Texas, and Florida, with California having the highest number of immigrants (2). One main component of California’s high number of Hispanic immigrants is due to the entrance of migrants illegally. The National Research Council claimed that in the 1990s, “more than 200,000 immigrants came into the United States illegally” (7). With eighty percent of Latin Americans becoming naturalized US citizens and nineteen percent not becoming US citizens before the 1970s, the numbers were reversed after the 1970s and the latter became predominant (12). Legal immigration as well as illegal immigration of Hispanics were both non-prevalent in early American history; nevertheless, with the progression of years and opportunities, many Latin Americans came to America seeking jobs and a better life for their family.

There have been several regions of United States that have gone through cultural changes throughout time. The indigenous people on the East coast went through a cultural change when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. The people that lived in the North went through a cultural change when the French entered by the St. Lawrence River bringing their Roman Catholicism religion. The people that were living in what is now Alaska went through cultural change when the Russians entered the area with their new language and orthodox religion. More recently, the people of Miami have gone through cultural changes since the Cubans have entered Southern Florida. To understand the migration of Cubans to Southern