Our laws have come a long way and gone through many anti- and pro-immigration cycles since then. This chapter explores the development of immigration law in the United States to provide psychologists with an understanding of the current psycholegal environment....
As Peter Kvidera has pointed out Chinese immigrants were “more directly affected by legal restrictions than any other in the history of U.S. immigration.” Collectively, the laws aimed to make life in America so restrictive, so expensive, as to drive the Chinese population in America out of...
EnglishThe purpose of my paper is to consider a set of policies concerning flows adjustment and naturalization of immigrants. The starting point of my analysis is the Naturalization Act of 1790, the first immigration law of the US government, which inspired the subsequent ones. I have conducted ...
Modern immigration is a highly regulated procedure governing the mobility of peoples between sovereign jurisdictions. This procedure has been progressively refined since the late eighteenth century through mechanisms of government that have frequently deployed the apparatus of criminal law. In this chapter w...
However, in this process, the US government has been repellent and vigilant to immigrants. From 1815 to 1882, the United States implemented a completely free immigration system. However, since 1882, the United States began to worry about the growing number of immigrants, so it introduced one st...
History Shorts: The Revolving Doors of Ellis Island Irish Immigrant Wave 1815:Peace is re-established between the United States and Britain after theWar of 1812. Immigration from Western Europe turns from a trickle into a gush, which causes a shift in the demographics of the United States. Thi...
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Between 1970 and 1980 the number of persons specifying Asian or Pacific Island ancestry in the US census increased 146% making it the fastest growing segme... PI Rose - 《Clamor at the Gates the New American Immigration》 被引量: 6发表: 1985年 ...
21、nt and rights of the people natural rights natural law human law “All men are naturally free and equal in the state of nature.”“Men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with no authority to judge between them, is properly the stated of nature.”“...
Chinese Immigration in America Purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act Geary Act of 1892 Impact of Chinese Exclusion Act Sources The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and...