Lynch/APHG 2011
Immigration Reading, graphic and web site analysis
Article: Who’s coming to America?
Websites:
Ellis Island Citizenship test: http://www.ellisisland.org/quizzes/quiz_a.asp NOTE: If you do not pass you will be sent back to your home country J
Remade in America: Set of articles related to new immigrants impact on America: http://projects.nytimes.com/immigration/ Please read some of these articles. I think you will find them a fascinating and very interesting read on the controversial issue of immigration in the United States.
Interactive Immigration Map:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html
Diversity in the Classroom: http://projects.nytimes.com/immigration/enrollment
Where U.S. Foreign Born Workers Come From: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/07/us/20090407-immigration-occupation.html
Global Migration:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/world/20070622_CAPEVERDE_GRAPHIC.html#
Please answer on a separate sheet of paper. Answers to ALL these questions can be brief J
Students will do a website analysis related to the websites noted above using the associated links.
Students should go to the Times’ interactive immigration map. Please answer the following questions using the interactive graphic.
1. Were there more immigrants from Western or Eastern Europe arriving in the year 1900?
2. What three counties in the U.S. had the largest number of foreign-born residents in the year 1900?
3. Name three counties that welcomed immigrants from Latin America in the year 1900?
4. Name three counties that welcomed immigrants from Asia in the year 1900?
5. Explore both the “Percent of Population” and the “Number of Residents” maps from the year 1900. What are TWO things that you find surprising? Why? What might be an explanation for the TWO patterns you chose?
6. Describe the available data for Fairfield County from the year 1900. Pick ONE other county that you perceive to be similar to Fairfield County and describe that data.
7. What three counties in the U.S. had the largest number of foreign born residents in the year 2000?
8. Compare and contrast Western and Eastern European immigration and Latin American and Asian immigration patterns from the year 1900 to the year 2000. What changes in the pattern can be clearly observed? What do you think accounts for these changes?
9. Explore both the “Percent of Population” and the “Number of Residents” maps from the year 2000. What are TWO things that you find surprising? Why? What might be an explanation for the TWO patterns you chose? Try to find data for groups other than those you looked at for question #8 J
10. Describe the available data for Fairfield County from the year 2000. Pick ONE other county that you perceive to be similar to Fairfield County and describe that data. How does the 1900 data compare to the data from the year 2000.
Students should go to the Diversity in the Classroom web page.
1. Go to the State of Connecticut link located in the left hand side of the page.
2. Go to Fairfield County and then do a comparison of two different school districts. Does the data on diversity surprise you in any way? Why/why not? Then compare those two districts to a district in CT but not located in Fairfield County. Do the same comparison as you just did.
Students should go to the Where U.S. Foreign Born Workers Come From web page.
1. Click on each one of the categories listed on the left side of the page and then click on one sub category for each. Please compare and contrast the number of foreign workers working in these jobs between two different countries in different parts of the world. Anything surprise you after you have looked at this data?
Students should go to the Global Migration web page.
1. Pick TWO countries that you are interested in and that are form different parts of the world. Compare and contrast the amount of money sent back home to their home country and the money sent home as a share of GDP. What surprised you from looking at this data? Why?
2. Take a look at the share of the population of a country that are migrants? Pick TWO countries from different parts of the world that have a large amount of migrants. Did you find this interesting in any way? Why/why not?
3. Look at the share of total migrants. Which THREE countries have the largest share of migrants living in their country? Does the U.S. percentage surprise you at all? Why/why not? Do the other two countries percentages surprise you? Why/why not?
4. Look at the net flow number. Look at a core, semi-periphery and peripheral country and discuss any data that surprises you or you find interesting. Please explain.