American Migrations Since 1965:
Asians and Others in the United States
Fall 2009
Prof. John SW Park
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies &
Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science
This class meets in Embarcadero Hall, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 9 to 10. Professor Park’s office hours are from 10 to noon on Mondays in 5050 HSSB. His e-mail address is jswpark@asamst.ucsb.edu. The teaching assistants for this class are Maryam Griffin, Michelle Samura, and Jason Stohler.
For a copy of the syllabus, please click here.
I. The Civil Rights Movement and the Immigration Act of 1965
Required readings:
Chae Chan Ping v. United States, the Chinese Exclusion Case, 130 U.S. 581 (1889).
Edward Kennedy, The Immigration Act of 1965, AMER. ACAD. POL. & SOC. SCI.
(1966).
David Reimers, An Unintended Reform: The 1965 Immigration Act and Third World
Immigration to the United States, J. AMER. ETHNIC HIST. (1983).
Douglas Massey, The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States, POP. & DEV.
REV. (1995).
Other stuff:
The Immigration
Act of 1965, National Public Radio (May 2006).
Immigration
and the Civil Rights Movement, National Public Radio (April 2006).
Edward Kennedy and Immigration
Law, National Public Radio (August 2009).
Cincinnati University Singers, The
Chinese, the Chinese, You Know (c. 1900).
Cincinnati University Singers, Little
Ah Sid (c. 1900).
II. Post-Colonial Migrations
Required readings:
Edwin Silverman, Indochina Legacy: The Refugee Act of 1980, PUBLIUS (1980).
Min Zhou, Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research
on the New Second Generation, INT. MIG. REV. (1997).
Andrea Louie, ‘Pandas, Lions, and Dragons, Oh My!’ How White Adoptive
Parents Construct Chineseness, J. ASIAN AMER. STUD. (2009).
Other stuff:
Arissa Oh, A New Kind of Missionary Work: Christians, Christian Americanists,
and the Adoption of Korean GI Babies, 1955-1961, WOMEN’S STUD. QUART.
(2005).
The Story of a Korean
American Adoptee, National Public Radio (July 2007).
International
Adoption, National Public Radio (April 2009).
III. The Multiracial State
Required readings:
People v. Du, 5 Cal. App. 4th 822 (1992).
Racial Violence Against Asian Americans, HARV. L. REV. (1993).
Albert Bergesen and Max Herman, Immigration, Race, and Riot: The 1992 Los Angeles
Uprising, AMER. SOC. REV. (1998).
Bill Ong Hing, Vigilante Racism: The De-Americanization of Immigrant America,
MICH. J. RACE & L. (2002).
Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and
America’s ‘War on Terror,’ ANTHRO. QUART. (2003).
Other stuff:
Elizabeth Boyd et al., ‘Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice’: Categorization
of Hate-Motivated Crimes in Two Police Divisions, L. & SOC. REV. (1996).
Muneer Ahmad, A Rage Shared by Law: Post-September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes
of Passion, CAL. L. REV. (2004).
Latinos and Hate Crimes, National Public Radio (November 2008).
Muslims after September 11, National Public Radio (September 2009).
IV. Managing and Adjudicating Culture and Difference
Required readings:
Alison Renteln, The Use and Abuse of the Cultural Defense, CANADIAN J. L. & SOC.
(2005).
Sarah Song, Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality, AMER. POL.
SCI. REV. (2005).
Maria Gutierrez de Soldatenko, ILGWU Labor Organizers: Chicana and Latina Leadership
in the Los Angeles Garment Industry, FRONTIERS (2002).
Min Zhou and Mingang Lin, Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic
Capital: Immigrant Chinese Communities in the United States, J. OVERSEAS CHIN.
(2005).
Other stuff:
Samuel Huntington, The Hispanic Challenge, FOR. POL. (2004).
Immigrant Assimilation, National Public Radio (August 2008).
The Burqa in France, National Public Radio (July 2009).
V. Impossible Subjects
Required readings:
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982).
Sure-Tan v. National Labor Relations Board, 467 U.S. 883 (1984).
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral:
Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882-2007,
AMER. QUART. (2008).
Other stuff:
Family Reunification Visas, National Public Radio (May 2006).
Do Border Fences Work? National Public Radio (June 2007).
Employer Sanctions, National Public Radio (April 2009).
Los Lobos, A Matter of
Time (1985).
Bruce Springsteen, The Line (1995).
VI. Immigration Reform, 1980-2000
Required readings:
Thomas Maddux, Ronald Reagan and the Task Force on Immigration, 1981, PAC.
HIST. REV.
(2005).
Alan Simpson, The Politics of Immigration Reform, INT. MIG. REV. (1984).
Carlos Miranda, The United States Commission on Immigration Reform, SANTA CLARA
L. REV.
(1998).
Other stuff:
Wayne Cornelius, Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences
of U.S. Immigration Control Policy, POP. & DEV. REV. (2001).
Immigrants Rush to Citizenship, National Public Radio (July 2007).
On Tuesday, November 19, at the MCC here at UCSB, students and activists from
IDEAS, an organization for undocumented students, will host a panel presentation
at 6:30 pm. For more information, please click here.
VII. Troubled Crossings
Required readings:
Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Policy and Black Refugees, ISSUE (1982).
Alex Stepick, Haitian Boat People: A Study in the Conflicting Forces Shaping
U.S. Immigration Policy, L. & CONT. PROB. (1982).
Donna Lee, Mail Fantasy: Global Sexual Exploitation in the Mail-Order Bride
Industry and Proposed Legal Solutions, ASIAN L. J. (1998).
Patrick Keefe, The Criminal Odyssey of Chinatown’s Sister Ping, NEW YORKER
(2006).
Other stuff:
Regulation of Internet
Dating, National Public Radio (June 2006).
Haitians in Florida, National Public Radio (May 2007).
Interview with Patrick Keefe, National Public Radio (August 2009).
Arcade Fire, Haiti (2004).
Iraqi Refugees in San Diego, National Public Radio (August 2009).
VIII. The Knowledge Class
Required readings:
Wei Li et al., Banking on Social Capital in the Era of Globalization: Chinese
Ethnobanks in Los Angeles, ENV. & PLAN. (2001).
Edward Park and John Park, PROBATIONARY AMERICANS chs. 6 and 7 (2005).
Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka, Asian American Identity: Shared Racial Status
and Political Context, PERSPECT. POLITICS (2008).
Other stuff:
Koreatown, Los Angeles, National Public Radio (August 2004).
Kumiko Nemoto, Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships
Between Asian American Women and White American Men, J. ASIAN AMER. STUD.
(2006).
Is There a Shortage of
Engineers? National Public Radio (April 2007).
U.S. Companies and Foreign
Workers, National Public Radio (April 2008).
A Brain Drain Back to
India, National Public Radio (May 2009).
Jane Junn is visiting our campus and giving a talk at the IHC on Thursday, November 19, at 4 pm. She will present a talk on racial and ethnic identity, and their relationship to political participation in the United States. For more information, please click here.
On November 20, at 2 pm., the IHC will also host a conference on the fortieth anniversary of Catolicos Por La Raza, a major immigrant rights and Chicano civil rights organization founded in Los Angeles. Professor Mario Garcia will give the keynote address. For more information, please click here.
IX. Emergent Divides
Required readings:
Ana Arana, How the Street Gangs Took Central America, FOR. AFF. (2005).
Cynthia Feliciano, Beyond the Family: The Influence of Premigration Group Status
on the Educational Expectations of Immigrants’ Children, SOC. ED. (2006).
John Park, Emergent Divides, CR: NEW CENT. REV. (2007).
Sarah Horton, A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones: A Phenomenological
Approach to the Experience of Transnational Motherhood, CULT. MED. PSYCHIATRY
(2009).
Other stuff:
Nicholas De Genova, Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in
Everyday Life, ANN. REV. ANTHRO. (2002).
Posses in Arizona, National Public Radio (May 2006).
Foreign Students, America
101, National Public Radio (January 2007).
Cartels Fuel Violence in
Mexico, National Public Radio (March 2009).
Immigrants and Remittances, National
Public Radio (May 2009).
Here are two articles, both from the Los Angeles Times, published on the same day, October 18, 2009, that illustrate some of the themes in this section of the syllabus.
X. Local, National, and Global: The Future of American Migrations
Required readings:
Lauren Gilbert, National Identity and Immigration Policy in the U.S. and the
European Union, COLUM. J. EUR. L. (2007/2008).
Sarah Lischer, Security and Displacement in Iraq, INT. SEC. (2008).
Philip Kretsedemas, Immigration Enforcement and the Complication of National
Sovereignty: Understanding Local Enforcement as an Exercise in Neoliberal Governance,
AMER. QUART. (2008).
Michael Olivas, Undocumented College Students, Taxation, and Financial Aid:
A Technical Note, REV. HIGHER ED. (2009).
Other stuff:
Local Immigration
Rules, National Public Radio (July 2007).
The Dream Act, National Public Radio (September 2007).
Vicente Fox on Immigration Reform, National Public Radio (May 2008).
Kris Kobach, What States Can and Should Do to Reduce Illegal Immigration, GEO.
IMMIGR. L. J. (2008).
Rhoda Margesson et al.,
Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis?
CONGRESS. RES. SERV. (2008).
Michal Kohout, Immigration Politics in California’s Inland Empire, APCG
YEARBOOK (2009).
Illegal Immigration Rules in
Italy, National Public Radio (May 2009).
Profiles of Undocumented
Students, National Public Radio (August 2009).
Talk Show Hosts Demand
Immigration Reform, National Public Radio (September
2009).
Immigration and Health Care, National Public Radio (September 2009).
Los Lobos, The Valley (2006).
Sample Essay Questions, First Midterm
1. Please explain the central arguments of the majority opinion in Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889).
2. Please explain why so many scholars have described the immigration consequences of the Immigration Act of 1965 as "unintended." What did American legislators expect when they passed the rule?
3. Please explain how the Immigration Act of 1965 was so different from previous federal immigration laws. Please explain at least two major pieces of legislation before 1965 in your answer.
4. Even before 1965, a substantial number of students, military brides, and orphans from South Korea came to the United States. Please explain why so many of these persons arrived here from 1945 to 1965.
5. Please explain why scholars have described the Los Angeles riots of
1992 as the first truly "multiracial" race riot in the United States after
World War II.
Sample Essay Questions, Second Midterm
This second exam will cover sections IV, V, and VI of the syllabus, and lectures from Monday, October 19, to Friday, November 6. I'll have extra office hours on Thursday, November 12, from 11:30 to 1.
1. Please explain why many scholars have been critical of the "cultural defense," as it has appeared in cases where criminal defendants have used their cultural backgrounds to minimize their criminal libaility.
2. In their account of contemporary Chinese American communities, Min Zhou and and Mingang Lin assert that "ethnic capital" is an increasingly important asset among Chinese immigrants in the United States. What do they mean by this concept, and how exactly is "ethnic capital" deployed within contemporary Chinese American communities?
3. Please discuss the main arguments in the majority and dissenting opinions in Sure-Tan v. NLRB (1984).
4. Please explain why so many migrants from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were coming to the United States since 1959, and especially after 1980. How did the United States federal government originally classify these migrants, and how were these definitions different from the ones proposed publicly by members of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s?
5. Please discuss at least two public laws passed by Congress to regulate immigration in 1996.