Watch:
Undocumented Americans: What is it like to grow up as an undocumented youth in America?
Passel, J. S. (2019). Measuring illegal immigration: How Pew Research Center counts unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Pew Research Center.
Watch the video, skim the article.
Read:
Mills, “The Sociological Imagination”
Budiman, A. (2020). Key findings about U.S. immigrants. Pew Research Center.
Krogstad, J. M., Passel, J. S., & Cohn, D. (2019). 5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. Pew Research Center.
Key facts about the changing U.S. unauthorized immigrant population
Park, J. (2019, January 11). I’m a Dreamer and a Rhodes Scholar. Where Do I Belong? The New York Times.
Zhou, M., & Gonzales, R. G. (2019). Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing up in the United States. Annual Review of Sociology, 45(1).
Migration Policy Institute. Profile of the Unauthorized Population: United States
Lots of statistics here, review for reference
Taparta, E. (2016). The US has come a long way since its first, highly restrictive naturalization law
Listen:
Gjelten, T. (2015) In 1965, A Conservative Tried To Keep America White. His Plan Backfired.
The Tenement Museum (2019) “I Would Cross a Million Borders”
Watch (all but the first are about 5 minutes long):
What will happen to undocumented doctors? (10 mins)
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Chapter 1
Melting Pot
Race Invaders
Read:
DACA Overview from UC Berkeley (logistical info about DACA)
National Immigration Law Center – DACA (logistical info about DACA)
Gonzales, R. (2018) “Here’s how DACA changed the lives of young immigrants, according to research”
Escobar, N. (2020) How DACA Has Transformed The Lives Of Dreamers — And Their Communities
Abrego, L. J. (2018) “Renewed optimism and spatial mobility: Legal consciousness of Latino Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and their families in Los Angeles” Ethnicities. (on Blackboard in Content folder)
Golash-Boza, T. (2016) “Feeling Like a Citizen, Living As a Denizen: Deportees’ Sense of Belonging.” American Behavioral Scientist, 60(13) 1575–1589.
Alba, R. & Nee, V. (2003) Remaking the American Mainstream. Chapter 5, read pp. 167-184. (Optional: read through the end of the chapter)
Optional Reading:
Abrego, L. & Negrón-Gonzales, G. (2020) We Are Not Dreamers. Duke University Press.
Introduction
Optional: you can watch a video of the authors here
Garcia, A. (2019) Legal Passing, pp. 1-17 (Optional: read through the end of the chapter)
Hamilton, et al. (2020) Transition into Liminal Legality: DACA’s Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California
Ngai, M. (2003)The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921-1965, Law and History Review
Much of this article is discussed in the Tenement Museum podcast listed above
Optional Film:
Documented: A Film by an Undocumented American https://documentedthefilm.com/
The film is available:
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Documented/613498
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