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Immigration and Eugenics

Immigration and Eugenics. By: Christina Moriarty, Matt Davidson, Will Doolittle, Dahlia Seggelin. Are the anti-immigration laws/policies due to eugenics? What are they and are they still around today ?.

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Immigration and Eugenics

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  1. Immigration and Eugenics By: Christina Moriarty, Matt Davidson, Will Doolittle, Dahlia Seggelin

  2. Are the anti-immigration laws/policies due to eugenics? What are they and are they still around today? • In 1917, Congress passed a bill requiring that every immigrant must pass a literacy test. (214) • In 1925, National Origins Act cut off immigrants from Asia and Africa and favored immigrants from Western Europe. (220) • Then in 1965 they replaced the old quota system by ending discrimination by system gives preferences to refugees from all parts of the world.

  3. What kind of jobs did immigrants have? • Garment Workers • Miners • Factory Workers • Dishwashers • Maids/Housekeepers • Taxi Drivers • Maintenance Workers • Construction Workers • Porters/Bellhops • Janitors • Butchers

  4. What did the eugenicists have to do with the immigrant offices? • Keeping track of the races coming into America allowed the easier application of Social Darwinism that Eugenicists attempted.

  5. What did immigrants think about eugenics? • Immigrants took offense to being labeled like “black”, “white”, or “hispanic” regardless of their various ethnicities.

  6. How did the eugenicists acknowledge academic accomplishments of the immigrants in their home country? • Disregarded everything and relied on the IQ tests that the immigrants received when they came to the United States.

  7. Were there ways for immigrants to advance in society? • Yes there were, for example a man from Greece came over to American and started out as a dishwasher in a restaurant and got himself promoted all the way up to being head chef. Eventually, the man became the owner of the restaurant.

  8. What methods were used to prove immigrants to be inferior? • Immigrants had to take IQ tests but they were usually based on American culture so the immigrants scored lower.

  9. How were the laws challenged? • “The people who opposed restrictions on immigration and deplored the language the eugenicists used to shape public opinion were those who saw the immigrants as individuals and understood their plight” (232). • Amongst these people, there was a group called the Allied Patriotic Societies, who went all the way to congress to argue policies and restrictions on immigrants (226).

  10. Works Cited • Kephart, Janice. "Immigrant Jobs." Center for Immigration Studies | Low-immigration, Pro-immigrant. CIS. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.cis.org/>. • Camarota, Steven, and Karen Jensenius. “Jobs Americans Won’t Do? A Detailed Look at Immigrant Employment by Occupation,” Center for Immigration Studies, N.p. 08 2009, Web. 3 Nov 2011. <hhtp://cis.org/ illegalimmigration-employment>. • Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement. 2nd. Brookline, MA: Facing History and Ourselves, 2002. Print. • Quigley, Margaret. "The Roots of the I.Q. Debate - Eugenics and Social Control." Political Research Associates. Public Eye, 1995. Web. 3 Nov 2011. <http:// www.publiceye.org/magazine/v09n1/eugenics.html>.

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