Thursday, January 13, 2011

Research Update

So lately I've been looking for research on the development of immigration laws since the 1920's. Most of the research consists of several article that have been published and archived in a couple of rare websites. What I find very interesting about the immigration laws, however, is that there seems to be a roller-coaster pattern in regard to the attitude towards immigrants, all the way until the 9/11 incident.

I plan on using this and much more research that I've found (including how certain political groups started using 9/11 to their advantage with scare tactics) whenever I start talking to people about the group. All I think I need to do now do just a little more research on demographics and talk to my panel members to see what I can do.

2 comments:

  1. You hint at some good stuff here. Tell us more?

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  2. Well I looked at some of bill's passed since the 1900's. I had found this website back in 2009, when I was working on an english project about the melting pot,

    It shows how the immigration improved slowly after the problems during the Japan conflicts.

    After 9-11 though, it got very strict because people were being targeted, especially Muslims, and then the Narcs in Mexico gave a bad image to Hispanics. This is another link that explains a lot. http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Tirman/

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