SWORK 350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Arab Americans, Economic Migrant
Chapter 8
Yonsei
Chapter 9
-37 million people have immigrated to the US p.394
since the 1980s, the us has averaged about 600,000 new comers a year
although the number of 1% of the population
mexico sent the most amount of people
poorest country in the western hemisphere is Haiti
immigrants from Jamaica typically settle on the west coast
Puerto Ricans in new York
Arab American make up 30% of the population of Dearborn, Michigan, the highest percentage
of any city in the nation (most successful arab community in America)
Arab americans are highest percentage of college graduates compared to whites
Recent data show that the largest groups of sfrican americans came from nigeria and ethipioa
(they are higher educated and created a brain drain in Africa by immigrating)
The following groups include many highly skilled nad educated individuals that are part of the
primary labor market except haitain immigrants
Hiatain immigrants could not be refugee to us because they were economic refugee and not
running for their lives
The highest number of undocumented immigrants licing in the us is 12 million
One of the best known attempts to limit benegits to illegal immigrants in 1994 when California
votes passed prop
What do Jamaica nd Nigeria have in common? They are both former british colonies
p.412, 413, 414
Chapter 10
Todays immigration struggles with the lens of seeing this as being as rooted as historic
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Document Summary
Arab american make up 30% of the population of dearborn, michigan, the highest percentage of any city in the nation (most successful arab community in america) Arab americans are highest percentage of college graduates compared to whites. Recent data show that the largest groups of sfrican americans came from nigeria and ethipioa (they are higher educated and created a brain drain in africa by immigrating) The following groups include many highly skilled nad educated individuals that are part of the primary labor market except haitain immigrants. Hiatain immigrants could not be refugee to us because they were economic refugee and not running for their lives. The highest number of undocumented immigrants licing in the us is 12 million. One of the best known attempts to limit benegits to illegal immigrants in 1994 when california votes passed prop. They are both former british colonies p. 412, 413, 414.
