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29 Cards in this Set
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Chain Immigration |
immigrants sponsor several other immigrants who upon their arrival may sponsor still more |
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Xenophobia |
the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners |
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Nativism |
beliefs and policies favoring native-born citizens over immigrants |
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Sinophobes |
people with a fear of anything associated with China |
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Brain Drain |
immigration to the United States of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed by their home countries |
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Mixed Status |
families in which one or more members are citizens and one or more are noncitizens |
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Billingualism |
the use of two or more languages in place of work or education and the treatment of each language as legitimate |
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Billingual Education |
a program designed to allow students to learn academic concepts in their native language while they learn a second language |
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Naturalization |
conferring of citizenship on a person after birth |
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Remittances |
the monies that immigrants return to their country of orgin |
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Globalization |
worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade, movements of people and the exchange of ideas |
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Transnationals |
immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their societies of origin and settlement |
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Refugees |
people living outside their country of citizenship for fear of political or religious persecution |
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Principles of Third-Generation Interest |
Marcus Hansen's contention that ethnic interest and awareness increase in the third generation, among the grandchildren of immigrants. |
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Ethnic Paradox |
the maintenance of one's ethnic ties in a way that can assist with assimilation in larger society |
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Symbolic Ethnicity |
Herbert Gan's term that describes emphasis on ethnic food and ethnically associated political issues rather than deeper ties to one's heritage |
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Denomination |
a large, organized religion not officially linked with the state of goverment |
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Civil Religion |
the religious dimension American life that merges the state with sacred beliefs |
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Secessionist Minority |
groups that reject assimilation and promote coexistence and pluralism |
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Creationists |
People who support a literal interpretation of the biblical book of Genesis on the origins of the universe and argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific thought |
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Intelligent Design |
the view that life is so complex that that it must have been created by a higher intelligence |
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World System Theory |
a view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor |
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Millenarian Movement |
movements, such as the Ghost Dance, that prophesy a cataclysm in the immediate future, to be followed by collective salvation |
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Pan-Indianism |
intertribal social movements in which several tribes, joined by political goals but not by kinship, unite in a common identity |
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Fish-Ins |
tribes' protests over government interference with their traditional rights to fish as they like |
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Powwows |
native american gatherings of dancing, signing, music playing, and visiting, accompanied by competitions |
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Sovereignty |
tribal self rule |
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Kickouts or Pushouts |
Native American school dropouts who leave behind and unproductive academic enviroment |
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Environmental Justice |
efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstances |