Migration: Key Issue 3 Rubenstein, pp. 96-102 Quota Act

Migration: Key Issue 3
Why Do Migrants Face Obstacles?
Rubenstein, pp. 96-102
● IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF HOST COUNTRIES
1a. What did the Quota Act (1921) and the National Origins Act (1924) do?
1b. How did they favor immigration from certain regions?
2. How did the Immigration Act of 1965 change the existing quotas laws?
3. How was immigration law further changed in 1978?
4. US immigration law gives preferences to three groups. Identify them.
a.
b.
c.
5. Define brain drain.
6. Define guest worker.
7. Annotate the map with information from the text regarding temporary migration for work.
8. Why do some areas on the map above (i.e. Eastern Europe) have little or no guest workers?
9. Define time-contract worker.
10a. For each of the countries in the table below, indicate factors that would suggest migrants to
the US are refugees, and indicate factors that demonstrate they are economic migrants.
Countries Contributing Migrants to the U.S.
Cuba
Haiti
Vietnam
Econ
omic
Fact
ors
Refu
gee
indu
cing
Fact
ors
10b. Identify Cuba and Haiti on the map below. Label other countries/states as a point of
reference.
10c. Identify Vietnam on the map below. Label other countries as a point of reference.
● CULTURAL PROBLEMS FACED WHILE LIVING IN OTHER COUNTRIES
11. Carefully read these sections, and afterward, complete the Venn diagram below to compare
and contrast attitudes in the US and Europe toward immigrants.
US ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS
EUROPEAN ATTITUDES TOWARD GUEST WORKERS