Immigrants

[|immigrants.ppt] This is the one that has my stuff...do not delete. just add your stuff. Ms S has seen my work twice and knows this is happening [|immigrants.ppt]Michael here I revised it and began adding my portion of the slide collaboration. Jackie, we still need so extra info read below at bottom. Chris check out what I did with the psych of immigrants and the pics.

Chris Webster updated: [|Immigrant powerpoint.ppt] we need to figure out what else we want to do. by Tues Jackie should answer our questions Acculturation Conformity Prejudice Assimilation Know-Nothings Nativism Anti-immigration movement v. immigrant assimilation

History Students: Discuss historical events of immigration throughout history. Psych Students: Discussion psychological effects of immigration including terms mentioned above.

Hey so this is Jackie Chagula, I have Ms. Cavanaugh 1st Period, not really sure how this is supposed to work but here's some info i found on psychology applying to immigration:
 * A Psychology of Immigration:** Two complementary domains of psychology that apply to immigration are cross-culural psychology and social psychology. Stems from research in anthropology is a central part of cross-cultural psychology. On the other hand, stems from sociology are a core feature of social psychology. Both domains are concerned with two fundamental issues that face immigrants and the society of settlement: maintenance of group characteristics and contact between groups. ([|A Psychology of Immigration] )


 * Psychological Aspects of Immigration**: Invetigations in cross-cultural psychology illustrate that human behavior, in particular social behavior, is strongly influenced by socialcultural factors. With regard to immigration, an interesting question arises: What do we find when a group of individuals socialized or enculturated in one society immigrate into another culture and attempt to stay there over a long period of time? ([|Psychological Aspects of Immigration: P. 230])

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Chris Webster Ellis Island The US Navy used Ellis island as a munition depot to store powder. How ever complaints from New Jersey residents lead to the removal of the depot in 1890. That same year Ellis islad was used as the site for a immigrants. TO accommodate the size of the new facility the island was increased to 3.3 acres. In the following two years Ellis was enlarged to fourteen acres in order to contain immigration. During WW II the ellis island immigration center was used to hose enemy aliens ad in 1954 the entryway was closed

In 1892, when Ellis Island opened its doors, the United States was the world's oldest democracy and one of its youngest nations. Much in need of the labor, brawn and talents of newcomers, this nation of people who were born and would continue to be born elsewhere, had to devise original methods for creating citizenship. One could become an American, as is the case in most western democracies, by being born here or by blood inheritance; but one could also choose to be American. Immigration, supervised by the states if it was regulated at all before the 1880's, provided a clear case for the necessity of a central federal power which could deal systematically and uniformly with people crossing national boundaries and with the enormous numbers of immigrants seeking to fill America's never ending demand for labor. The 1885 Alien Contract Labor law presents one example of the difficulties of enforcing legislation without federal participation. Intended to protect the wages of American laborers, this law made it a criminal offense to import aliens under any prior contract for the performance of labor or service of any kind. The law made no provision for enforcement of its terms through inspection or deportation, and the states could not enforce it. In 1921, Congress initiated a major turnabout in immigration control policy, which it firmly institutionalized in 1924 when, subject to nativist pressures, it imposed a ceiling on immigration and quotas for various nations. So began a major shift in United States immigration policy which initiated the period of "quantitative controls" that remains with us still. With these quantitative restrictions in place, immigration became an alien's privilege, not an alien's right. Passports and visas also came to be required in the post 1924 restrictionist era. Increasingly, Ellis Island was used as a detention and deportation center, rather than as an admission depot.
 * More information on Ellis Island**

Ellis Island immigraton center Immigrants entering Ellis island immigration station

Chris Webster history of Immigration in US: Early history: COlonists came for escape from religious persecution, ecomonic opportunity. Some came as slaves or indentured servants As early as 1790 beginning of our country there was a Naturalization Act that allowed any free white man could be a citizen (http://www.rapidimmigration.com/usa/1_eng_immigration_history.html) Here is the link retrieved May 22, 2008; will update biblio later. Here's some prejudice stuff...we let in refugees like people from Burma (wxii) but we are not so nice to Hispanic Americans. **I will do history in general including Ellis Island. __Human Geo__ - can you do accult and assim. __Yes I can Do Accult and Assim and Yes I have read the Kite Runner. My name is Michael Byington.__ Acculturation is the process by which one culture adopts the beliefs and customs of another cultural group. During World Wars I and II, American Germans and American Japanese had to hide their cultural identitys and adopt those of the United States. At this time in America, with a war overseas, Americans looked down upon these two cultures because of the conflicts we faced with their homelands. Many American Japanese men and women were put into special camps to keep them out of American society. This exerdising of these groups forced these groups to develop new attitudes and habits. They actually became a part of the society they were in.

Assimilation is the process by which on culture has its customs and beliefs absorbed into that of a larger cultural group. In the novel the Kite Runner, the main character and his son move to the U.S. and adopt American values. They fled Afghanistan after it was taken over by the communist Soviets. The son, Amir, attends an American college and becomes a writer. This is a great example of how one's beliefs and customs were radically changed by the new environment he/she was thrown in.

Jackie will you clarify some info on the psychological background of why we are prejudice. why we want to conform. My teacher mentioned something about studies on fitting in and stuff. that would be great for us to do the powerpoint. I also set up a link with the powerpoint. My teacher said open and then save, click edit slides under edit and we should be able to alter and add as we go. Chris** Title page by Chris: [|immigrants.ppt]Got it started. Like the page at least while my teacher is sitting next to me:)

Hey my name is Eric Sumners. I have Ms. Cavanaugh 2nd period. I've been kinda lazy, I'm not gonna lie, but I've got some stuff to write down on conformity. Conformity is based highly on social influence. It is when a person changes attitudes or behavior on their own in order to fulfill a social norm. We feel a need to conform from two ways of influence: normative social influence, the need to be liked and accepted and informational social influence, the need to be correct and have the right information in accordance with reality. (http://www.usu.edu/psy3510/influence.html) The conformity experiment was conducted by Solomon Asch. It starts with many confederates (people who know about the experiment and are helping the experimenter) and just one subject to the experiment. a diagram like this was shown to the subject and all the confederates in the same room. A question is asked as to what line is most similar to the Exhibit 1 line. Line A is the obvious choice to answer the question. However, all the confederates would anser a different line like Line B or C. The subjects were then tested to see if they would conform to the group and answer like all the others or if they would stay with their original thought (Confederates always answered first). 37 of the 50 subjects tested conformed to the confederates at least once. http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/asch_conformity.html

Prejudice is a negative attitude towards the members of a specific social group. Negative emotions, feelings, and beliefs are created from the presence of the prejudiced group. Many research studies have shown that prejudice is a learned trait. Most of all, prejudice is only associated with attitudes. Action against another social group is discrimination. http://www.dbu.edu/jeanhumphreys/SocialPsych/9prejudice.htm

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/Images/prejudcartoon.gif This cartoon is discrimination, not prejudice because the father creates an action of taking the daughter away, not just having a negative attitude towards the relationship. http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Acculturation.html this is the link for my (Michael's) work. Do not erase it.

I've been tryin to put this on the slide since wed. night but i seem to have no luck, but here's my conformity info - Jackie Chagula • Conformity is the degree to which members of a group will change their behavior, views and attitudes to fit the views of the group. The group can influence members through unconscious processes or through peer pressure. • In most cases, conforming to social norms is so natural that people aren’t even aware they’re doing it unless someone calls it to their attention or violates the norms  •  Muzafer Sherif did the first classic experiment in conformity that demonstrated one of the important conditions that produces conformity: ambiguity  •  Solomon Asch devised a conformity experiment that eliminated the ambiguity factor. His experiment revealed other factors of conformity, unanimity and size of the majority, even when ambiguity is not an issue •  Although the ambiguity and unanimity of the situation are powerful contributors to the incidence of conformity, they are not the sole determinants. Personal characteristics and the individual's position within the group play a role as well. Individuals who have a low status within a group or are unfamiliar with a particular situation are the ones most likely to conform. • Cultural factors are also influential. http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Conformity_psychology/id/2004578 http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Conformity_psychology/id/2004578