12/14

Today is review day for exams and I am getting more and more stressed as they get closer. I printed out my essay last night and put it in my bookbag and this morning I could not find it. I got very stressed, luckily someone in my advisories helped get through it. I went down to the learning commons this morning during my first mod, luckily I had band, so it was okay. The printer would not work and I had to get help. He had to restart my laptop and connect the printer in a very confusing way. It took forty minutes to print. I ended up being thirty minutes late to my first mod. It is alright though because I ended up turning in the paper in right on time.

12/11

Today we took our test on Migration and I am pretty sure I failed even though I studied. I am sure I could have done better. I still do not know what I am going to write for the Essay. I know I am going to d the first topic, but I am not sure what countries I wan to do. I am officially stressed out because of exams. I am hoping to do well. I just need to study. My plan is to study all of this week and on Sunday study for the English and Biology exam, Monday I am going to study for the Math and my German exam, and Tuesday study for Bible and Human Geography. It is stressful because I can not even remember all of one unit, yet alone a whole semesters worth of stuff, but I am go to work hard in order to at least pass.

12/10

• Immigration concerns in Europe
• Population growth in Europe is fueled  by immigration from other regions of the world a trend disliked by many Europeans
• biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost, because immigrants:
• adhere to different religions 
• speak different languages
• practice different food and other cultural habits

• hostility to immigrants has become a central park of some political parties in many European countries
• immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs
• Characteristics of Migrants 
• Ravenstein noted:
• Most long distance migrants are male
• most long distance migrants are adult individuals rather than families with children
• most long distance migrants are young adults seeking work rather than children and elderly people

12/7 Notes

• Countries have adopted selective immigration policies
• preference shown for specific employment placement and family reunification
• passing of the Quota Act in 1921 and the national Origin Acts in 1924 by the U.S. congress marked the end of unrestricted immigration to the U.S
• about 3/4 of immigrants
• skilled workers
• approximately 1/4 of immigrants 
• sending countries alleged preference for skilled workers contributes to brain drain
• Diversity
• a few immigrants admitted because their sending country historically has sent very few migrants 
• unauthorized immigrants are those who enter a country without proper documents
• characteristics of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. 
• Source country 
• roughly 58 percent emigrate from Mexico 
• Children make up 1 million of them and born on U.S. soil making them U.S. citizens
• Duration of residency has increased for unauthorized immigrants
• in 2010, 35 percent of adults had been U.S. for at least 15 years
• Labor force
• approximately 8 million unauthorized immigrants are employed in the U.S. 
• Distribution
• Texas and California have largest number of unauthorized immigrants 
• Mexico's border w/ U.S. recognizes motives that compel unauthorized immigrants enter illegally
• employment opportunities
• family reunification
• batter way of life 
• view from Mexico is more complex
• residents of northern Mexico wish for compassion to be shown to the unauthorized immigrants
• residents of southern Mexico are less tolerant because of number of unauthorized immigrants entering Mexico from countries like Guatemala

12/5

• Why do migrants face challenges?
• a migrant needs a passport in order to legally emigrate from a country and a visa in order to legally immigrate to another country.
• The U.N. classifies countries according to four types of immigration policies: 1. maintain the current level of immigration, 2. increase the level, 3. reduce the level, 4. no policy. Similarly, emigration policies are identified by the same four classes. 
• Unauthorized immigration:
• historically high level and the number of people who wish to come is an even greater number. The people who can not afford enter U.S. illegally and those who do so are called unauthorized immigrants
• 11.3 unauthorized immigrants living in the united states in 2014, the number decined from 12 million because the reduced amount of job opportunities in 2008, the amount of unauthorized immigrants is now less than the number leaving.
• The distribution is mostly across Texas, California, and some in Nevada.
• The source country is more than half of Mexico emigrants 
• Children make up one million of unauthorized immigrants
• and 8 million of unauthorized immigrants are employed
• Quotas- maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the united states during one-year period 
• Twelve million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island in 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island is no longer used to process immigrants , it is now the museum of immigration
• Immigrants that are eligible to be admitted without limit are: children, spouse, and parents of a current U.S. citizens
• Brain Drain- large-scale emigration by talented people
• Chain migration- migration of people to a specific location because relative or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
• Mexico border is 1,951 miles long
• American would like more border patrol, work, civil rights and local initiatives
• Guest worker- someone who is from a poorer country who is temporarily working for a business
• circular migration- temporary movement of a migrant worker

Notes 12/4

       United States is inhabited by a lot of immigrants. About eighty million people migrated to the Untied States between the early 1800s and 2015. There are three main eras of immigration that the United States has experienced
- Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth centuries
- Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

       The Untied States population was 3.9 million and 950,000 of them were immigrants from Europe and Sub- Saharan Africa. In 1790 sixty-two percent of immigrants came from Europe and thirty- eight percent were Sub- Saharan and came to America as slaves. Most Europeans were voluntary migrants, but Africans typically were not.

       During the mid 1800s most migrants came from Ireland and Germany. The migration rate jumped from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand people. Later Scandinavia started to migrate to he U.S. and soon enough southern and eastern Europe started to make their way over to the United States. The annual immigration to the Untied States reached one million. and two thirds were southern and eastern European.

        Immigration started to decline in the 1930s and 1940s during the Great Depression and World War II. After that immigration started to increase steadily and during the first decade of the twenty-first century immigration surged to historical heights. Most immigrants today are Latin American. thirteen million Latin Americans have migrated to the U.S. in the past half century. Seven million Asians migrated to the U.S. in the past half century and most are from China, Vietnam, India, and the Philippines. Mexico makes up most of the immigration rate in the United States. They exceeded Germany in 2006. After the U.S government took control over the huge amount of immigrants coming in to the U.S., They issued visas to all the people without proper and legal documentation.

           

12/3

In 1939 nine hundred Jews fleeing Germany sailed to the United States for asylum and were turned down by more than one country. They ultimately went back to Europe. As Germany grew larger, most of them ended up in Nazi death camps. After World War II Untied States decided to never turn down refugees.

non reforma (not returning)- 1951 United Nations meeting

United States takes you in if your country is discriminating against you.

Persecution by government or government will not protect you against race, nationality, religion, politics, and/or social group

Democracy = beacon for equality and freedom. Untied States gains politaclly and from an advantage point as well as the people seeking refuge

Victims of domestic violence are granted Asylum, who aren't being protected by their country (under Obama)

Gang Violence?

Terrorism?

Sexuality?

Surge of fifty thousand people seeking refuge