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Immigration
Articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive and related links "Coming to America" (July/August 2003) With its diverse and dispersed immigrants, our nation's capital is a model of the post-racial society we've been awaiting. By Jonathan Rauch "Travels Into America's Future" (July 1998) A correspondent who has long experience reporting from dimly understood regions of the world reports from his dimly understood native land, and his excursions expose the borderless forces that are pushing America into its next life. By Robert D. Kaplan "Should English Be the Law?" (April 1997) Those who would make English America's official language see a big problem where a problem hardly exists, the author argues—and they may foster the very divisiveness that they seek to prevent. By Robert D. King "The Price of Immigration" (November 1996): • In "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?" David M. Kennedy looks at the circumstances that explain America's past success in accommodating many immigrants. Some of those circumstances still exist, he writes—but in important respects the present situation is without precedent. • In "The New Economics of Immigration" George J. Borjas suggests that even if immigration is good for the economy as a whole, it may still be bad for many of its parts. "In the Strawberry Fields" (November 1995) The management of California's strawberry industry offers a case study of both the dependence on an imported peasantry that characterizes much of American agriculture and the destructive consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy. By Eric Schlosser "The Coming Immigration Debate" (April 1995) Jack Miles reviews Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, and finds that Brimelow, an Englishman by birth, has summoned up another vision of danger to the common European-American stock. Unless radical corrective measures are quickly taken, Brimelow says, unchecked Third World immigration will overwhelm the United States—its culture, its economy, and its ethnic identity—within a matter of a few decades. By Jack Miles "Must It Be the Rest Against the West?" (December 1994) As a proportion of the world's population, the authors write, those who live in the rich countries of the West are in decline. Voting with their feet, the dispossessed are already migrating by the millions toward the planet's wealthy regions. The solution to this problem lies in a place where self-interest and morality intersect. By Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy "A Bold Proposal on Immigration" (June 1994) Should California's illegal aliens be allowed to vote in local elections? Is it in fact possible to seal the U.S. border? The two questions may be related. By Jack Miles "The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau" (April 1994) The flow of immigrants into Wausau, Wisconsin—mostly Southeast Asians—was turned on in the late 1970s and has yet to be turned off. The result: a preview of the tensions that may soon afflict other American communities. By Roy Beck "Timing is Everything" (January 1994) A tale of two groups of Vietnamese in America—the ones who have succeeded, and the ones who probably never will. By Lowell Weiss "The Border" (May 1992) The management of our relations with Mexico now looms as one of the most pressing foreign-policy challenges facing the United States. The problems confronting the two countries are great, and nowhere are they as starkly apparent as they are along the U.S.-Mexican border, a region that is by turns desolate and congested, dirt poor and thriving, lawless and a police state. By William Langewiesche "Immigration: How It's Affecting Us" (November 1983) The unspoken question about the immigrants is, What are they doing to us? Will they divide and diminish the nation's riches? Will they accept its language? Will they alter racial relations? Will they respect the thousand informal rules that allow this nation of many races to cohere? By James Fallows "Immigration and the Labor-Supply" (April 1919) There is certainly no prospect of such a reduction in immigration as would justify any relaxation of our present immigration laws. A thorough organization of the labor market, to bring the man and the job together with the least loss of time to each; a constructive study of means for reducing labor-turnover; and training, health-conservation, and steadied employment to increase the workers' efficiency—these are the policies which will man our industries and at the same time develop in the workers a stronger confidence in our civilization. By Don D. Lescohier "Immigration and the South" (November 1905) The South is developing a new-born zeal for immigration. From many parts of the South there comes a demand for laborers in the cotton fields and on the sugar plantations; in mines, mills, and factories; on the farms and in the cities. Newspapers in the North as well as in the South repeat the call, "more labor needed in the South." By Robert DeCourcy Ward More on this issue from Atlantic Unbound: Roundtable: "One Nation, Inhospitable?" Flashback: "Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy" Related Links For more links related to immigration issues see Project Vote Smart's Information on Immigration. "Few Visas Go to the 'Best, Brightest'" San Francisco Chronicle INS figures debunks businesses' claims. By Louis Freedberg Immigration Forum Migration News "The New Jungle" This U.S. News Online feature takes a look at industries that encourage illegal immigration by systematically hiring illegal aliens at lower wages in dangerous jobs. The analysis concludes that this system is defeating our increasingly expensive border protection agencies, harming the workers coming to this country, and taking jobs from legal workers. Copyright © 2001 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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