The United States’ Immigration Rhetoric amid the Syrian Refugee Crisis:

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-304
Author(s):  
Ellen Gorsevski ◽  
Clarke Rountree ◽  
Andrée E. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

The Syrian Refugee Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmihan Almontaser ◽  
Steven L. Baumann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Culturally Sensitive Care ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
American Patient ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

The civil war in Syria that began in 2011 has displaced millions of Syrians of all ages. While the number that have arrived in the United States is small in comparison to many other countries, it is important that nurses and other healthcare workers here understand that many of them have faced considerable trauma and endured stresses. Most of them are Muslims. Muslims in the United States and elsewhere represent a heterogeneous group of people with a long intellectual and cultural history. Islamic cultural patterns do pose unique barriers to a primarily Anglo-Saxon medical system that medical practitioners need to consider in order to avoid misunderstanding and provide culturally sensitive care. The authors discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and the experience of being a Muslim or Arab American patient in U.S. healthcare settings.

Changing Occupational Characteristics of U.S. Immigrants

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon F. De Jong ◽  
Marilou C. Legazpi Blair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
America South ◽  
Skilled Immigrant

Although the proportion of legal immigrants to the United States reporting an occupation remained nearly stable from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, there was a decline in the proportion of immigrant workers admitted with professional and technical occupations — a trend that the 1990 Immigration Act seeks to address in this decade. Using 1972 and 1986 United States Immigration and Naturalization Service public use data, this analysis shows that a major explanation for the decline is the recomposition of immigrant worker streams; notably large increases in admissions from Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean vs. Asian workers; and increases in immediate family numerically exempt and sixth preference new arrivals and older workers — all categories with a low proportion of professional and technical workers. Contrary to expectations, immigrants admitted with family preference visas recorded an increase in professional and technical workers, even though the proportion of highly skilled immigrant workers in this admission category is still quite low.

Uprootedness as (Cruel and Unusual) Punishment

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Zaibert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration

In spite of some protestations to the contrary, some of the practices that the United States immigration law permits are punitive. They are, moreover, terribly severe. If American citizens were to be treated in the ways in which some noncitizens are treated in the United States, they would be victims of cruel and unusual punishment. The paper seeks to show the implausibility of the euphemistic maneuvers that seek to deny this fact, by appealing to arguments put forth by the United States Supreme Court. In particular, the paper argues that the reasons why the United States Supreme Court considers expatriation to be cruel and unusual punishment apply as well to some instances of deportation.

Revocation of Citizenship in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Herzog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World View ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
American Concept

AbstractRogers Brubaker in his 1992 path-breaking study proposes a theory of citizenship as a coherent world view: the French liberal model identifies citizenship as a community based on territoriality; the German ethno-nationalist model bases citizenship on blood-line. Rogers Smith challenged Brubaker and, based on a 1997 study of United States immigration laws, claims that the American concept of citizenship is a non-coherent mix of various principles: liberal, ethno-nationalist and republican at the same time. Both authors inspired a great deal of research, but all studies so far have attempted to adjudicate between the two competing theories by looking at inclusionary practices, at the various ways citizenship is granted in various countries, and their results are inconclusive. This paper reports findings for a study which looked at exclusion. The data on United States laws and legislative debates about the states’ rights to revoke, and citizens’ privilege to renounce, citizenship lends support to Rogers Smith’s arguments regarding inclusion and citizenship, while underlining war as an independent sociological source for the genesis, persistence and dispersion of these bundles or equilibria.

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