{"id":1790,"date":"2012-11-18T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:18:15","slug":"american-immigration-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/11\/18\/american-immigration-3\/","title":{"rendered":"American Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by JWPhotography2012 on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/87975067@N06\/8051004981\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8311\/8051004981_321fb60da7_m.jpg\" alt=\"Enter Ellis Island\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>During&nbsp;the 2012 election, immigration was not nearly as big of an issue as it has been in previous elections.&nbsp; In the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/roundtables\/immigration\/\">newest TSP Roundtable<\/a>, leading scholars of immigration address why this might be the case and, more broadly, why immigration has long been a divisive political issue in the United States.&nbsp; This is a great reading for any number of sociology classes.&nbsp; A few questions for students to ponder after the reading include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp; How has immigration to the U.S. changed over time?<\/p>\n<p>2)&nbsp;&nbsp; According to Massey, when did the most recent cycle of xenophobia start, and why?<\/p>\n<p>3)&nbsp;&nbsp; How do immigration and race intersect?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quiz, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/01\/28\/how-much-do-you-know-about-u-s-immigration\/\">How Much Do You Know about U.S. Immigration<\/a>, would also be a nice complement, though some of the figures may need to be updated slightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During&nbsp;the 2012 election, immigration was not nearly as big of an issue as it has been in previous elections.&nbsp; In the newest TSP Roundtable, leading scholars of immigration address why this might be the case and, more broadly, why immigration has long been a divisive political issue in the United States.&nbsp; This is a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127407],"tags":[89,838],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class-exercises-activities","tag-immigration","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}