Prompt Questions/Essay
For the writing assignment, you can respond to as few/many prompt questions as you like, so long as you have written a combined 1750-2000 words, which are equal to 7-8 pages in Times New Roman font size 12, double-spaced with 1” margins.
Prompt question:
1. How do popular perceptions of immigration influence our understandings and responses to it? Does it match the social reality? Why or why not?
2. Based on what we read in the assigned pages of Moya and Smith for the week, how does our understanding of immigrants’ agency today compared to the past? Please explain.
3. What was so different about immigration since World War II than anything before it? Please explain.
4. How did colonialism/imperialism shape which immigrant groups were more heavily racialized than others? Please explain.
5. What did the construction of “illegal” applied to people respond to? What additional barriers were imposed on people being classified as “illegal?” Please explain.
6. How does the literature on assimilation/integration differ from what is often said, say, on television? How different/similar is the process in each setting? Please explain.
7. How have remittances affected the sending countries? Please explain.
8. How does the assigned literature explain the difference between refugees and migrants and why? Please explain.
I also attached the readings that you need, please check the attachment and completed it before Wednesday @ 11:59 pm.
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