Illegal Immigration Sociology Research Paper

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For the writing assignment, you can respond to as few/many prompt questions as you like, so long as you have written a combined 875-1000 words for each paper, which are equal to 3.5-4 pages in Times New Roman font size 12, double-spaced with 1 margins. I will provide the questions below.

– minimum of 3 sources need to be used ( they will be provided)

– Make a heading for each prompt. it should look like – “prompt name” Week 2″

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week 1: January 3: Introductions and Immigration in Comparative Perspective

Stephen Castles. 2018. Social Transformation and Human Mobility: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Migration. Journal of Intercultural Studies 39:2: 238-251
Prompt question: How do popular perceptions of immigration influence our understandings and responses to it? Does it match the social reality? Why or why not?

Week 2: January 10: Immigrant Agency in Comparative Historical Perspective

Jose C. Moya. 2005. Immigrants and Associations: A Global and Historical Perspective. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31:5: 833-864
Robert C. Smith. 2003. Diasporic Membership in Historical Perspective: Comparative Insights from the Mexican, Italian and Polish Cases. International Migration Review 3 (Fall): 724-759
Prompt question: 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.

Week 4: January 24: Comparing Racial Foundations and Continuities

Ramon Grosfoguel. 2003. Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in Global Perspective. UC

Press, Chapters 5-6 (144-191)

Saskia Sassen. 1993. Why Migration? Race, Poverty & the Environment 2: 15-20
Nicholas de Genova. 2016. The European Question: Migration, Race, and Post- Coloniality in Europe. Eds. A. Amelina et al, in Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation, IMISCOE Research Series, pp. 343-356
Prompt question 1: How did colonialism/imperialism shape which immigrant groups were more heavily racialized than others? Please explain.
Prompt question 2: What was so different about immigration since World War II than anything before it? Please explain.

Week 5: January 31: Social Construction of Illegal Immigration

Mae Ngai. 2014. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens in the Making of Modern America.

Princeton, pp. 1-15

Corrie van Eijl. 2008. Tracing back Illegal Aliens in the Netherlands, 1850-1940. Eds. Marlou Schrover et al. Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 39-58

Nicholas de Genova. 2013. Spectacles of migrant illegality: the scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion. Ethnic and Racial Studies 36.7: 1180-1198

Prompt question: What did the construction of illegal applied to people respond to? What additional barriers were imposed on people being classified as illegal? Please explain.

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