Chapter 16 - Immigration policy. After studying this chapter you will be able to: Summarize the various push, pull, stay, and stay-away factors that determine immigration, and introduce the role of immigration policy; use the history of . policies toward immigrants as a case study of immigration policy; describe immigration policy in other countries and compare it to that of the ;. | Immigration Policy By long established custom whoever speaks of immigration must refer to it as a “problem.” It was a problem to the first English pioneers in the New World scattered up and down the Atlantic coast. Whenever a vessel anchored in the James River and a few score weary and emaciated gentlemen, worn out by three months upon the Atlantic, stumbled up the bank, the veterans who had survived nature’s rigorous “seasoning” looked at one another in despair and asked: “Who is to feed them? Who is to teach them to fight Indians, or grow tobacco, or clear the marshy lands and build a home in the malaria-infested swamps? These immigrants certainly are a problem.” (Marcus Lee Hansen, 1938) The Goals of This Chapter Summarize the various push, pull, stay, and stay-away factors that determine immigration, and introduce the role of immigration policy. Use the history of . policies toward immigrants as a case study of immigration policy. Describe immigration policy in other countries and compare it to that of the . Analyze illegal immigration, its likely causes, and its consequences. Introduce students to the bureaucratic world of immigration regulation by examining how people go about getting immigrant visas in the . and other countries. Push, Pull, Stay, and Stay Away Factors The incentives that influence immigration fall into four categories: 1. Negative incentives that push people to leave a country; 2. Positive incentives that pull people to immigrate to another country; 3. Positive incentives that cause people to stay at home; 4. Negative incentives that cause people to stay away from a foreign country. “Push” Factors Famine Discrimination Poverty High taxes Low wages Religious persecution Unemployment Civil war Crowding Forced military service violence and crime Social immobility “Stay” factors Family ties Property Friendships Employment Social status Familiarity Cultural familiarity Certainty Political privileges “Pull” factors Higher wages Law and . | Immigration Policy By long established custom whoever speaks of immigration must refer to it as a “problem.” It was a problem to the first English pioneers in the New World scattered up and down the Atlantic coast. Whenever a vessel anchored in the James River and a few score weary and emaciated gentlemen, worn out by three months upon the Atlantic, stumbled up the bank, the veterans who had survived nature’s rigorous “seasoning” looked at one another in despair and asked: “Who is to feed them? Who is to teach them to fight Indians, or grow tobacco, or clear the marshy lands and build a home in the malaria-infested swamps? These immigrants certainly are a problem.” (Marcus Lee Hansen, 1938) The Goals of This Chapter Summarize the various push, pull, stay, and stay-away factors that determine immigration, and introduce the role of immigration policy. Use the history of . policies toward immigrants as a case study of immigration policy. Describe immigration policy in other countries
