Immigrants to the United States

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This paper examines the experiences of rural/agricultural and urban/industrial immigrants to the United States. The paper sets forth the context in which the setting for immigrant groups assumes importance for understanding the immigration phenomenon and then discusses problems or difficulties that all groups shared. It looks at experiences that were unique to various groups either because of special group or individual characteristics or because of the environment in which the immigrants functioned.

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"Hard times for immigrant farmers led to their activism in cooperatives and alliances that would help preserve agricultural community cohesion--even to the formation of the Populist Party, which favored government subsidy and regulation of agriculture, as long as government was subsidizing big business as well (Study Notes, p. 57). The general difference in experience from permanent to migrant rural/agricultural groups, however, is consistent with the statement in study notes for lesson 3 (p. 48) that settlement in family units would predict permanent immigration; it follows that the split-family pattern of Asian and Latin American farm workers would come under the migrant and not permanent model."

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