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...Americans,” a demographic that Warren Ilchman, director of the Soros Fellowships, characterizes as representing “a unique window on very important phenomena in contemporary American life.”The fellows exemplify “the creative and constructive side of immigration?? during a time “when many are raising questions about the value of immigration,” the program’s press release reads.The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans was created in 1997 by American philanthropists Paul and Daisy Soros, themselves immigrants from Hungary...
...conservatives, for instance, might be inclined to support the legalization of marijuana, while social conservatives might adamantly oppose it. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page argues for more legal immigration to bring about economic growth, while The National Review argues vehemently for a hiatus on all immigration??so that immigrants already here can be culturally assimilated. Disparities within the conservative position run the gamut, and to ignore these distinctions is simply narrow-minded...
...claim that my forthcoming book, Who Are We? aims to spark a national debate “over immigration?? is untrue (News, “Critics Claim Huntington Is Xenophobic,” March 16). My book is not about immigration but about American national identity. Immigration clearly has played a role in shaping that identity, but Mexican immigration, which the article emphasizes, is dealt with in one chapter out of twelve. The book argues that Americans have historically defined their identity in terms of four major components: race (white) which involved...
...simple, “Hi, how was your flight?” might trump the condemning and suspicious stare which makes you wonder, “Did I leave that C4 in my bag?” But don’t think things get any better after surviving immigration??America’s “foreigner relations” aren’t about to improve. Sure, you escaped the armed guards, fingerprinting and interrogations about your visa’s legitimacy, but Customs is still to come...
Provost Steven E. Hyman and a group of professors have also initiated discussion recently about a center to study globalization and immigration??but students said yesterday they were concerned that Latino studies would “slip through the cracks...