Illegal Immigrants in the United States - Annotated Bibliography Example

IMMIG Bracey, G.W. (2003). Inequality from the Get Go. Phi Delta Kappan. This resource shows how people can combat prejudice and understand prejudicial behavior, as well as concentrating on the reduction of this behavior. The article targets the individual in a personal way in several examples, and has diagrams showing how prejudicial action leads to discrimination against target persons or groups. The author states that prejudice can be combated by highlighting a number of principles, the first of which involves theories of force and resistance. The author also concentrates on inequality of illegal immigrants, which can be used for the report. Calabresi, M (2000). Is Racism Fueling the Immigration Debate? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1195250,00.html This author supplied their reactions to the issues and historical circumstances brought up in the other articles about immigration and racism. Whether one agrees with individual commentary on racism or not, it can still be recognized as an important part of the assimilation of knowledge, which is strongly represented in this writer’s article. There was a lot of attention paid, in my estimation after reading the article, which was made available to me, to blending content from the secondary sources with content from the author’s personal opinion, which can be of value to the report. Cole, David D. (2002). Enemy Aliens. Stanford Law Review, 54, p. 953. This author argues ethnocentrism has affected immigration by creating an atmosphere in which one group’s, usually the majority’s, stereotypes of out-groups are used as functions of political legitimacy that targets immigrants based on their race or ethnicity rather than as individuals. As this source states, “it is not legitimate to deny to foreign citizens the constitutional rights of due process and political freedoms, as these rights do not turn on citizenship, but on personhood” (Cole, 2002, p. 953). This rationale is of value to the proposed report. Honig, Bonnie (2002). A Legacy of Xenophobia. Boston Review, pp. 84-9. This article looks at the history of xenophobia against illegal immigrants. “Americans are so used to thinking about foreigners as either a poison or a cure for the diseased national body that they are poorly prepared to think about them simply as persons. This.. is captured by the dehumanizing American term for foreigners- ‘alien’” (Honig, 2002). Many groups have been subjected to this official term throughout US history. Jordan I (2010). New immigration arguments flare. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703322204575227320006734604.html This author notes how race and ethnicity involve superficial and cultural aspects of the individual, such as whether they are black, white, Hispanic, etc., and where they are from. Assimilation is a theory of what should happen to culture in a new country. Primary structural assimilation often asks that intersectionality be given up for commonality on the individual, group, and structural levels. There are many arguments about immigration. Junkins, P (2010). Patrick protests hate mongering. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1547140441/Patrick-protests-hate-mongering-in-immigration-debate This article had a statement of purpose that was clear and short, but it was not guilty of promoting general over specific understanding of the issues. All of the author’s questions are very unbiased and open-ended, which could have been a problem but wasn’t, in relation to the proposed report. Motavilli, J (1998). The open-door policy - US immigration E: The Environmental Magazine http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_n5_v8/ai_19926785/ This author writes about from a more personal perspective that tended to react to these points that were brought up in a way that aligned them with the qualitative methodology being used by the author. This formed an article in which there were both objective and subjective voices. Schramm, J (2006). Immigration challenges. HR Magazine. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_4_51/ai_n26840947/ The author looks at history, and how ethnocentric thinking and its political ramifications led to the unconstitutional imprisonment of many Japanese Americans during the second World War. This also affects the way life has changed for this particular group in terms of censorship and civil rights. This country has a past that has been called into question many times in terms of the Constitution and civil rights. Even though there have been reparations made for this catastrophe, it still affects a historical tendency that continues even today in Gitmo. Ling, Y (2005). U.S. immigration should be limited. HR Magazine. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_11_50/ai_n15858911/ This author provided opinion and supplied personal commentary. Many of the other books and articles I have seen are written in a summative form which detracts from analysis because it provides material on a summarizing basis that has already been represented in extant form. This writer’s article did not just summarize the referenced research, however; it added personal comments by the author. Lynn, M (2010). The many sides of the illegal immigration debate http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/04/opinion/la-le-0504-tuesday-20100504 Many of the connections that were made by the author between immigration and prejudice seemed to be rather strained. It seemed to me that the author could have chosen a less mechanical and more organic series of metaphors to explain their points than ones that had to be changed over from the semiotics of physics. “Prejudice can be a hostile, resentful feeling--an unfounded dislike for someone, an unfair blaming or degradation of others” (Lynn, 2010) Arizona enacts stringent immigration law (2010). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html This author believes profiling illegal immigrants is a degrading attitude that helps us feel superior or chauvinistic. Of course, the misjudged and oppressed person resents the unfair judgment. Discrimination (like aggression) is an act of dealing with one person or group differently than another. One may be positively or negatively biased towards a person or group; this behavior does not necessarily reflect the attitude Both sides blame each other in immigration debate (2010) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042600226.html This article looks at how energy and family dynamics (as opposed to pervasive individualism) are often celebrated in terms of these being immigrant traits that are successfully assimilated into the larger culture of the United States. Many scholars speak of this process in terms of the national renewal that is provided by assimilation. But as mentioned in the assignment, there is also a polarized tendency towards autonomy that must be looked at from the perspective of the immigrant group, or the immigrant individual, and the host country. Illegal immigration (2010) http://blog.nj.com/ledgerletters/2010/06/illegal_immigration_debate.html This site provides further contradiction when balanced against traditional American ideals that perceive the U.S. as a nation of immigrants, in which equality is a shared virtue. Acculturation involves inculcation into Americans’ common conceptions of foreigners as being holistic representatives of a confusing blend of cultural positivity and negativity, stagnation and newness. Culture and its characteristics cannot be adequately defined in the allotted and non-referenced parameters of the assignment. Cultural pluralism refers to what could be simply described as the opposite of the melting pot theory, which is useful to the proposed report. Immigration politics (2010). articles.baltimoresun.com/.../bs-md-omalley-immigration-politics-20100712_1_immigration-debate-governor-s-race-democratic-o-malley This article notes how there will always be a negative reaction of xenophobia in the US, however which tries to bend the facts and use propaganda in an insidious manner. Assumptions about the significance of this issue are based on individuals’ beliefs and personal politics, and their stance on issues like whether or not illegal immigrants should be granted a form of amnesty that allows them to become contributory taxpayers. Immigration battle (2010) firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_.../4807288-virginia-wades-into-illegal-immigration-battle  This resource looks at how oppression is sometimes also linked to assimilation vs. cultural pluralism in the US today. In the process of assimilation, both the host and the immigrant cultures are renewed and changed. Immigrants are often celebrated in American political culture, and it is almost always for making America a better place with more diversity and the ever-present possibility of newness within the society being made Read More