Vocabulary
Dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries
What is Xenophobia?
Russians, Italians,Slavic, Greek, Romanians, Germans, Chinese, and British.
Who were the Immigrants coming in the 19th century?
Took his photos in a dark, windowless tenement in 1890 of men and women who did not know they were going to be photographed and were surprised.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Poverty, violence and corruption in the Mexico and the Northern Triangle - Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
What are Push factors for Immigrants from south of the border?
Location where, a hammer-wielding woman accused of racist rant against Latina doctor, husband, happened.
What is Houston, TX?
hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.
What is Persecution?
It has been estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. citizens can trace at least one of their ancestors to this location.
What is Ellis Island?
Through frustration, fear, anxiety, and possibly even boredom, many detainees wrote or carved their thoughts into the soft wooden walls.
Who were Asian immigrants at Angel Island?
Better living environment, American education, and ubsiness opportunities.
What are pull factors for Asian Immigrants?
Target individuals for questioning and detention, specifically targeting those perceived as Latino.
What is stereotyping?
Bring into conformity with the customs and attitudes of a dominant social group.
What is to Assimilate?
Escaping economic chaos, better lives, and the California Gold rush.
What were pull factors for Chinese immigrants?
Being uneducated this immigrant group worked in steel mills, mines, and meat packing plants.
Who are Polish Immigrants?
Refugee families are seeking safe haven from war and terror.
Who are Syrian refugees?
Discrimination, verbal harassment, and violence in communities.
What are Asian Hate crimes?
Extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
What is Famine?
Mexico seeded half of its country after the war, giving it to the US.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Were surprised at the fair treatment of female workers getting fair wages.
Who were Norwegian Immigrants?
Asylum claims when they arrive because they're fleeing persecution, gang violence and other forms of organized crime.
Who are Unaccompanied Minors from Mexico?
Group who is being targeted with threats, violence, and verbal attacks, during and after the pandemic.
Who are Asian-Americans?
A person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval or war.
What is a Refugee?
Political upheaval, famine, poverty, and religious intolerance.
What are push factors for European Immigrants?
Repatriation happened during the great Depression.
Who were Mexican-Americans?
A person, especially a political fugitive, who applies for refuge in a foreign country
Who is an Asylum seeker?
Immigrants bring innovation to the US.
What is a truth?