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Sections Begin Next Week

Sections Begin Next Week. Enroll/attend same section Rosalio Cedillo rcedillo@uci.edu Andrew Duncan Andrew.duncan@uci.edu. Road Map. A Country of Immigrants.

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  1. Sections Begin Next Week • Enroll/attend same section • Rosalio Cedillo • rcedillo@uci.edu • Andrew Duncan • Andrew.duncan@uci.edu

  2. Road Map

  3. A Country of Immigrants • “It is generally agreed that [humans first came to the Americas] from eastern Asia in one or more migrations, crossing a land bridge that from time to time during the Ice Age connected Siberia to Alaska.” • Readers Companion to American History

  4. Economic Migrants • “[S]mall hunting bands from Asia, pursuing migrating herds of Ice Age mega-fauna across Beringia or along its coasts, could have reached Alaska…. [P]eople…lived essentially by hunting mammoths, mastodons, outsized bison, and other now-extinct animals….” • Readers Companion to American History

  5. Economic Migration -- Wooly Mammoth

  6. Economic Migration -- Mastodon

  7. Political & Cultural Migrants “Among the early Pilgrims was a group of Separatists, members of a radical religious movement that broke from the Church of England during the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1606 William Brewster led a group to [the Netherlands]…to escape religious persecution…. [T]hese Separatists…left…for America on the Mayflower.” - MSN Encarta

  8. Immigration & Population of U.S. (Douglas Ubelaker estimates)

  9. Source: www.willisms.com/archives/2005/09/index.html

  10. Source: http://www.jaha.org/edu/discovery_center/push-pull/chart_w_events.html

  11. Immigration to U.S. by Region of Origin, 1821-2000Source:http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=6019&sequence=0

  12. Ethnicity of 2008 UCI Freshmen Class (UCI Admissions Office) EthnicityPercent Asian/Asian American 55.3% Caucasian (includes Middle Eastern) 21.7% Mexican American 11.5% Spanish American 3.6% No response or Unknown 3.5% African American 2.0% Other 2.2% American Indian <1%

  13. Remittances • A “remittance” is usually defined as money sent from one place or person to another. A remittance economy is one dependent on such money transfers, often from a family member abroad to relatives back home. • There are also political and cultural remittances.

  14. Economic Remittance Form

  15. Economic Remittance Flows

  16. Investment, Aid, Remittances

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