Do you think our current education system is still encouraging first and second generation immigrant children to adopt the national civic culture, in other words assimilate? If yes, does this need to be changed? What do you think could be done differently? If not, is our current education system helping children understand and embrace their multiple identities?

Readings

Read the following:

Chomsky, Aviva. 2007. They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. A Note on Terminology and vii-xxvi.

Chomsky, Aviva. 2007. “Myth 12: Today’s Immigrants Threaten the National Culture Because They are not Assimilating.” 103-109.

The book is listed within the ASU Library Resource Organizer (click on column on the left) and is on-line within the ASU Reading List.

Huntington Assimilation Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship.pdfActions
Banks – 2017 – Failed Citizenship and Transformative Civic Education.pdfActions

There are two parts to this assignment: A question and an answer to the question below.

 

Do you think our current education system is still encouraging first and second generation immigrant children to adopt the national civic culture, in other words assimilate? If yes, does this need to be changed? What do you think could be done differently? If not, is our current education system helping children understand and embrace their multiple identities?

Banks. (2017). Failed Citizenship and Transformative Civic Education. Educational Researcher, 46(7), 366–377. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17726741

Chomsky. (2007). They Take Our Jobs: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Beacon Press.

 

On page 12 of Ngai’s Impossible Subjects, the author mentioned that World War 1 created European war refugees that wanted to seek entry in the United States. Roger’s also mentions in Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 the various refugee acts after World War 2 which had numerical caps to the number of refugee allowed into the United States (pg 190). He later mentions on page 211 that the United States can “pick and choose which of the tens of thousands of refugees it admits annually”.

Why did these refugees choose to come to the United States and not to another other country? What about the United States seemed to attract them here? How did the numerical caps on the refugee acts play a factor in coming to the United States? (THOSE WERE THE QUESTIONS)

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