#7 Immigration and Minority Problems

Tuesday - 10:00 a.m.                                                      Fall Term 2008 (14 weeks)
Coordinator:  Ralph Boulware                                    Co-Coordinator:  Bud Shapiro

Course Description
We have debated, but not solved our problems with immigrants and minorities.  Other countries with similar problems have handled them differently.  By learning how others have tried to deal with those matters, perhaps we can try new approaches and improve the political rhetoric.  Among the countries to be studied in this S/DG and their immigrant groups are France (North Africans), Germany (Turks), Netherlands (Moslems), Japan (Koreans), India (Moslems), Israel (Arabs), China (Tibet), Malaysia (Chinese), Britain (Pakistanis), Italy (Albanians), and the U.S. (Hispanics).

Topics

1. Theory of Immigration Policy & International Migration before 1945
2. Migration to Highly-developed Countries since 1945.
3. New Ethnic Minorities and Society.
4. Migrants Minorities in the Labor Force.
5. Immigration Policies of the U.S. and Britain.
6. Immigration Policies of France & Italy.
7. Immigration Policies of Germany & Netherlands.
8. Immigration Policies of Japan.
9. Immigration Policies of India
10. Immigration Policies of China.
11. Immigration Policies of Israel.
12. Immigration Policies of Malaysia & Indonesia.
13. Immigration Policies of Canada & Mexico.
14. Migrant Children and Politics.

Bibliography
Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark J.  The Age of Migration.  The Guilford Press, 2003.
Meyers, Etan.  International Immigration Policy.  Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
Coles, Robert.  Children of Crisis - Volume 2:  Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers.  Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

Numerous Internet Sites.

Pre-Meeting:  Tuesday, August 12, 2008; 10:00 a.m.