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Identifier	Thesis 1502
Author	Patrina, Stephen N
Title	Closing the door / Stephen N. Patrina
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	1998
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The original purpose of this thesis was to examine the forces behind the anti-immigrant movement in United States history culminating in the Quota Law of 1924. However, after much analysis that thesis was expanded to examine the changing nature of immigration law into the 1990's. To do this, extensive research had to be completed. I began by examining the primary sources on immigration restriction in the Congressional Reports, as well as newspaper and magazine articles from the various periods. Following this, an examination of the many secondary sources put me in touch with the theories and historical forces behind the anti-immigrant movement. With more recent immigrants than any other state, California has become the focal point in the fierce debate over immigration in the 1990's. Therefore, much of the core of the information gathered for this thesis was taken from California's findings. Finally, the United States Bureau of Statistics provided much of the numerical support used in this thesis. Throughout this research I was amazed at the unchecked direction and path immigration restriction has taken from this country's beginning. As immigration ebbed and flowed the restrictionist movement shifted greatly from its' political origins in the early 1800's to racial and genetic reasoning at the beginning of this century. Equally stunning has been Congress' slow but uncharted reopening of immigration via refugee, family reunification, or diversity immigration acts in the century. Thus leaving the United States today with no clear cut immigration policy. This thesis concludes that after two centuries of immigration restriction, a clear and concise path needs to be taken. Current United States policy is blurry, heavily brokered policy that has been put together over the decades to reflect the changing fads and competing interests of domestic politics. This policy today should combine the splendid diversity that immigration has brought to this country on the great unifying ideas of individual freedom, political democracy, and human rights, while at the same time enhancing the economic well-being of this evolving nation. In light of the massive number of legal and illegal immigrants entering the United States today, the economic viability of immigrants should lay as a cornerstone of the United States immigration policy.
Subject	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy United States -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Mezvinsky, Norton
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	39977731
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