In the meantime, the first federal immigration law, the Naturalisation Act, was passed in 1790, allowing all white males residing in the US for two years to become citizens. Until the end of the 19th Century, individual states handled immigration with rules varying by jurisdiction...
Lowell (2004), `Competing for skills: US immigration policy since 1990', paper presented at the `IRPP conference on North American integration: Migration, trade and security', Ottawa, 1-2 April.Martin, Susan and B. Lindsay Lowell. "Competing for Skills: U.S. Immigration Policy since 1990....
Over the past decade, the US population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s, the Census Bureau said Monday, a remarkable slackening that was driven by a leveling off of immigration and a declining birthrate. The bureau also reported changes to the nation's political map: The long-runn...
Using CPS data from 1998 to 2018, we show that the increase in the share of immigrants and children of immigrants in the population has reduced overall female labor force participation. However, immigration accounts for relatively little of the retreat from the labor force. Instead, the ...
(1898-1946), followed by a deliberate immigration policy that recruited health care workers from the Philippines to address US workforce shortages. Currently, nurses from the Philippines represent a majority of internationally educated nurses in the US and are more likely to work in inpatient and ...
Trump’s immigration policies are appalling in almost every aspect. And yet they may not be the worst feature of his administration. Indeed, identifying its foulest aspects has become a popular American parlor game. Yes, he has called immigrants criminals, rapists, and animals. But what about ...
Our preliminary results indicate support for cultural and human capital-based explanations of reform. As work progresses, we intend to further assess whether historical shocks brought about by immigration had persistent effects on government performance, mediated by institutional changes. 展开 ...
Harmful stereotypes of Asian women in American popular culturedate back to at least the 19th century. Back then, American missionaries and military personnel in Asiaviewed the women they met there as exotic and submissive. These stereotypes influenced the first U.S. immigration law based on race,...
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In this lesson, we look at how immigration to the United States has changed since the turn of the 20th century. We look at how migration prior to 1900 had been largely from Northern and Western Europe, and how for the first few decades of the 20th century that immigration had shifted to...