Laws and Regulations
This 1965 law removed origin quotas, reshaping US immigration policy.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act?
This labor leader organized farmworkers and led boycotts to advocate for better working conditions.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Puerto Ricans were determined to not have the same rights as US citizens unless on Union state land in this year.
What is 1922?
This 1959 event triggered a major wave of Cuban migration to the US.
What is Jamaica Plain?
What is Europe?
This term was used to express pride among Mexican Americans in the 1960s-1970s.
What is Chicano?
This major US city became a center of Puerto Rican migration and culture.
What is New York City?
Compared to other Hispanic groups, Cuban immigrants were more often of this socioeconomic status.
What is wealthier / more educated?
This sport originated in the US and became popular in the Dominican Republic during the period of immigration.
What is baseball?
This group benefited from Cold War refugee policies and received special support upon arrival.
What are Cuban immigrants?
What is the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan?
Puerto Ricans in mainland US faced the contradiction of being treated as both citizens and this term.
What are second-class citizens?
Cuban Americans became a political force in this US state.
What is Florida?
Unlike other groups, Dominican identity in the US featured this pattern of movement.
What is frequent travel between US and DR?
This policy shift caused an increase in immigration from Latin American and Asia.
What is the end of the national origins quota system?
What is ¡Viva Kennedy!?
This term describes Puerto Ricans living in New York who developed a distinct cultural identity.
What are Nuyoricans?
This 2000 immigration case involving a young boy became a national controversy.
What is the Elian Gonzalez case?
This term was used by a "stay at home relative" to define Dominicans who had adapted to US culture.
What is individualistic/materialistic?
This unintended consequence of the 1965 Immigration Act grew because workers with poor qualifications were pushed to the bottom of visa waiting lists.
What is undocumented migration?
This Chicano activist and poet was indifferent to materialism, producing a political poem and a significant piece within Chicano literature.
Who is Rodolfo Gonzales?
The group was granted citizenship in 1917 primarily to serve military purposes, but denied the full constitutional rights that citizenship implied.
What is the status of Puerto Rican citizenship?
This was a reason for Cuban immigration that many people overlooked when compared to refugees.
What are familial disputes?
This percentage of Dominicans rated preservation of their home culture as important, showing their devotion to their nation.
What is 83%?