Professor Park
Fall 2007
This class meets in 1004 Girvetz Hall, Monday, 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 quarter are:
Joomi Kim: chalene@umail.ucsb.edu
McKay Barrow: barrow@umail.ucsb.edu
Brett Esaki: brett01@umail.ucsb.edu
For a copy of the syllabus, please click here.
The following readings from the syllabus are available on-line:
I. Some Recurring Themes in American Immigration
Chae Chan Ping v. United States, the Chinese Exclusion Case, 130 U.S. 581
(1889).
United States v. Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923).
Eleanor Hadley, A Critical Analysis of the Wetback Problem, L. & CONT.
PROB. (1956).
Susan Olzak, Labor Unrest, Immigration, and Ethnic Conflict in Urban America,
1880-1914,
AMER. J. SOC (1989).
II. The Civil Rights Movement and the New Immigration Law
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).
Takahashi v. Fish & Game, 334 U.S. 410 (1948).
Greg Robinson and Toni Robinson, Mendez v. Westminster, ASIAN L. J. (2003).
Douglas Massey, The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States, POP. & DEV.
REV. (1995).
III. Post-Colonial Migrations
Elaine Kim, ‘Bad Women’: Asian American Visual Artists Hanh Thi
Pham, Hung Liu, and
Yong Soon Min, FEMINIST STUDIES (1996). [recommended]
Richard Weil, International
Adoptions:
The Quiet Migration, INT. MIG. REV. (1984).
Edwin Silverman,
Indochina
Legacy: The Refugee Act of 1980, PUBLIUS (1980).
Lanny Thompson, The Imperial
Republic, PAC. HIST. REV. (2002)
IV. The Multiracial State
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).
Muneer Ahmad, Homeland Insecurities: Racial Violence After September 11th,
SOCIAL
TEXT (2002).
V. Culture, Difference, and Struggle
Doriane Coleman, Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea, S. ATL. QUART. (2001).
Bill Ong Hing, Refugee Policy and Cultural Identity: In the Voice of Hmong
and Iu Mien Young
Adults, 1 HASTINGS RACE & POV. L. J. 111 (2003).
Min Zhou, Segmented Assimilation, INT. MIG. REV. (1997).
VI. Impossible Subjects: Immigration Reform After 1965
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S.
202 (1982).
Sure-Tan v. National Labor
Relations Board, 467 U.S. 883 (1984).
Daniel Tichenor, The Politics
of Immigration Reform in the United States, 1981-1990,
POLITY (1994).
George Borjas and Marta
Tienda, The Economic Consequences of Immigration, SCIENCE
(1987).
VII. Transnational Asian Migrations and the Arrival of a "Knowledge Class"
Arun Lobo and Joseph Salvo, Changing U.S. Immigration Law and the Occupational
Selectivity of Asian Immigrants, INT. MIG. REV. (1998).
Wei Li et al., Banking on Social Capital in the Era of Globalization: Chinese
Ethnobanks in Los
Angeles, ENV. & PLAN. (2001).
David Yang, Globalization and
the Transnational Asian ‘Knowledge Class,’ ASIAN L. J. (2005).
VIII. Emergent Divides
Alejandro Portes and Lingxin Hao, The Schooling of Children of Immigrants,
PROCEED. NAT. ACAD. SCIENCES (2004).
Edward Park and John Park, PROBATIONARY AMERICANS chs. 6 and 7 (2005).
John Park, Emergent Divides,
CR: NEW CENT. REV. (2007).
Lauren Krivo and Robert Kaufman, Housing and Wealth Inequality, DEMOGRAPHY
(2004).
Linda Lopez and Adrian Pantoja, Black and White, POL. RES. QUART. (2004).
[recommended]
IX. Troubled Crossings
Roland Tolentino, Bodies, Letters, Catalogs: Filipinas in Transnational Space,
SOCIAL
TEXT (1996).
Alex Stepick, Haitian Boat People: A Study in the Conflicting Forces Shaping
U.S.
Immigration Policy, L. & CONT. PROB. (1982).
Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Policy and Black Refugees, ISSUE (1982).
Patrick Keefe, The Criminal Odyssey of Chinatown’s Sister Ping, NEW YORKER
(2006).
X. Borders and Estrangement, Banishment and Settlement
Elana Zilberg, Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of
Gang
Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador), AMER QUART.
(2004).
Rhacel Parrenas and Cerissa Parrenas, Workers Without Families: The Unintended
Consequences, ASIAN L. J. (2003).
Kevin Johnson and Bill Hing, The Immigrant Marches of 2006 and the Prospects
for a New Civil Rights Movement, HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. (2007).
Sample Essay Questions, First Midterm
1. According to Susan Olzak, how were labor unrest, immigration trends, and ethnic conflict related in American cities from 1880 to 1914? Please explain the structure of her argument.
2. Please explain the central arguments presented by Justice Stephen Field for upholding the Chinese Exclusion Acts in Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889).
3. By 1924, how were courts and other government institutions to determine who was or wasn't "white" for purposes of naturalization into American citizenship? Please discuss at least one major Supreme Court case that dealt with this issue prior to 1924.
4. Please explain how the Immigration Act of 1965 fundamentally altered the way the United States selected prospective immigrants to the United States.
5. When scholars refer to Asian American immigration as "post-colonial," especially after 1965, what do they mean by this concept?
Sample Essay Questions, Second Exam
This exam will cover parts IV, V, and VI of the syllabus, and materials presented
in lecture from October 22 to November 14.
1. Please explain the basic facts of the Vincent Chin case in 1982. Why were
so many Asian American activists upset at the way this case was handled through
the criminal justice system?
2. Many scholars have argued that the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 were the
nation's first most expense "multi-racial" race riots. Please explain
specificaly why these riots were so "multi-racial."
3. Please discuss at least two cases since 1980 where defendants presented "cultural
defenses" in criminal cases. Please explain how the courts in those cases
responded to these types of defenses.
4. Please explain the central arguments of the majority opinion in Plyler v.
Doe (1982).
5. Please explain at least two major immigration rules since 1980 that attempt
to restrict the immigration of poorer persons to the United States.
Sample Essay Questions, Final Exam
The final exam is cumulative. Study and review everything, including the past sample essay questions listed above.
1. Since 1965, several rules have encouraged the migration of highly skilled persons and persons with wealth to the United States. Please state and explain three of these rules.
2. What is an "ethnoburb"? How are they different or similar from other forms of race-based community formation in the United States since 1965?
3. How have the rules and policies governing deportation changed since 1965? Please explain your answer with respect to at least two immigration rules passed after 1965.
4. Many scholars have insisted that the United States has a "broken system" with respect to immigration law and policy. Please explain the essence of this argument, especially with respect to unlawful immigration after 1965.
5. Please explain the central argument of Professor Park's essay, "Emergent Divides." Really, what the heck did he mean by that title?
6. After 1965, several scholars referred to this age of immigration as more of a "brain circulation" rather than a "brain drain." How might the concept of "brain circulation" be useful for understanding migration patterns not just among affluent and skilled immigrants, but also among poorer immigrants as well.
7. Please explain how contemporary immigration rules might lead to the separation of families across international boundaries.