OFFERING REFUGE OR REFUSAL?: AMERICAN IMMIGRATION POLICY, PAST & PRESENT

• Authors: Greene Victor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay describes the on-going ambivalence in the immigration policy America has instituted in its history. On the one hand one guiding philosophy has been part of its national ethos, that is to act as the world's democratic homeland for the oppressed in its first hundred years after 1776. However on the other hand, since the 1880s that gracious openness has clashed with opposite restrictions in statutes, New obstacles to acceptance have arisen even barring at times aliens of certain foreign cultures. Now the arrival have stimulated fears of threatening our way of live, our national security, and weakening out vaunted cultural values. In the more recent era of the twentieth and twenty-first century, the latter policy of nativists has been dominant as the country sees the coming of more foreign, non-whites some of whom have arrived illegally. Meanwhile the administration of the hardening policy has been a failure with corruption and low morale of immigration officials. The result has been interminable controversy between liberals and restrictionists.

Keywords

EN

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION POLICY; HISTORY OF US; IMMIGRANTS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 3(133)
• Pages: 11-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Greene Victor

• Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of History, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA07748