The Influence Of Immigration In American Politics In The Twentieth Century

Tags:

• 19th century
• A Man of The People
• A Peoples History of The United States
• ACT
• American
• American immigration
• American Politics
• American society
• Anti War Movement in The United States
• Asia
• Assimilation
• Bibliography
• Capacity
• Case
• Case Study 1 for a
• Century
• Changes
• Characters from Opposite Sides of The World
• Chinese
• Commission
• Composition
• Contribution
• Country
• Debate

Show more

Get document Get an original paper

The influence of immigration in American politics in the twentieth century

After independence, the American people are formed as a mixture of the contributions received both European and other parts of the world (nation of immigrants). American immigration is characterized by its variety and diversity. In the specific case of what we can classify as mass emigration and that occurred from 1880 to 1930, the causes of this seem to be in attraction, that the new country exercised, for economic, Italian and Polish reasons or for political causes, JewsFrom Russia. A particular case is that of Mexican emigration. During the 1910 revolution, thousands of Mexicans joined the more than one hundred thousand who already lived in the territories acquired after the war between the United States and Mexico.

All these migratory waves, had their influence on American politics. Motivated by the confrontation between the pressures of newly arrived immigrants, the interests of the ethnic-cultural groups of older origin and the demands of the labor market:

• At the end of the 19th century, under the presidency of Harrison, the first federal immigration office was established on Ellis Island, showing an open doors policy.
• From 1907 to 1911 the Dillingham commission is created to "study" the emigrants who arrived massively.
• In 1917 the entrance to the people from the ‘Asatic Barred Zone’ was prohibited, a space that covered most of Asia and Pacific Islands. As a continuation of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" promulgated at the end of the 19th century and as a measure of aversion towards Asians.
• In the twenties and after changing the origin of immigrants, the laws are enacUSA. Favoring immigrants from northern and western Europe, and imposing much more restrictive quotas to those who came from eastern and southern Europe, which was considered less suitable for rapid assimilation for a rapid assimilation. As an attempt to regulate migratory flows and their composition.
• In 1924 the Minutes of National Origins was approved, limiting the number of immigrants per year.

The historical roots of the United States cannot be explained without these migratory waves. Today’s American society is heiress of immigration and has been developed with the cultural contribution and for the work effort of immigrants. Immigration is a substantial part of their national vision, although they have "sought" always choose their immigrants, both in their origin and in their number. American legislation on immigration has been conditioned by the debate on assimilation, integration and multiculturalism, and has responded to the different changes in the volume and composition of migratory flows, as well as the concerns of the groups of the groups ofmore powerful influence. The discussion about emigration, and mainly to its capacity for assimilation and integration, is particularly intense within the American multicultural society, as we know today.

Bibliography

1. Sanchez, Blanca. 2006. "The era of great migrations: from the mid -nineteenth to 1930". In: Economic Mediterranean Nº 1., pp. 19-32. Edita: Caja Ruraliterránea, Cajamar.
2. "United States: Nation of emigrants". Available [11/11/2019] at: https: // www.Arthistory.com/en/node/69546