Immigration Foundations
This term describes a person who chooses to move to another country permanently.
What is an immigrant?
This New York immigration station processed millions of immigrants entering the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Ellis Island?
This process requires a person to prove they fear persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group.
What is asylum?
This 1948 document defined basic human rights after World War II.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This type of aid includes food, medical care, and shelter provided during a crisis.
What is humanitarian aid?
This term describes someone who is forced to flee their country due to war, persecution, or violence.
What is a refugee?
This 1882 law banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This group applies for protection before entering the United States.
Who are refugees?
This genocide occurred in Europe during World War II and targeted Jewish people and others.
What is the Holocaust?
These are economic penalties placed on a country to pressure leaders to change policies.
What are sanctions?
This type of factor pushes people to leave their home country, such as war or natural disaster.
What is a push factor?
This 1924 law created a quota system that limited immigration based on national origin.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This is one economic benefit immigration can bring to a country, such as workforce growth or entrepreneurship.
What is economic growth?
This African country experienced genocide in 1994 between the Hutu and Tutsi groups.
What is Rwanda?
This type of response involves the use of armed forces in another country.
What is military intervention?
This type of factor attracts people to a new country, such as jobs or education opportunities.
What is a pull factor?
This 1965 law ended national origin quotas and changed who could immigrate to the U.S.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
This is one challenge communities may face with sudden increases in immigration, such as strain on housing or public services.
What is strain on resources?
This is a warning sign of genocide where a group is compared to animals or described as less than human.
What is dehumanization?
This U.S. government agency provides foreign aid and disaster assistance to countries in crisis.
What is United States Agency for International Development? (USAID)
This is the term for someone who asks for protection after arriving in the United States because they fear persecution.
What is an asylum seeker?
This major change in immigration policy allowed more immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America after decades of restrictions.
What was banning the quota system?
This is one reason immigration policy today can be controversial in the United States.
What is disagreement over border security, economic impact, or humanitarian responsibility?
This is the connection between refugees and human rights violations.
What is people flee when their human rights are denied or threatened?
This is the key difference between sanctions and humanitarian aid.
What is sanctions punish a government economically, while humanitarian aid helps civilians?