Who were the 3rd wave of immigrants?
* Eastern Europeans - Albanians, Belorussians, Bosnian Muslims, Bulgarians, Carpatho-Rusyns, Cosacks, Croats, Czechs, Estonians, Finns, Georgians, Gypsies, Hungarians, Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, Macedonians, North Caucasions, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Wends, and Ukrainians.
* Jews - Russia
* East Asians - China, Japan
* West Indies and Mexico
Reasons for 3rd wave of immigration
* Eastern Europeans
* Rising population, scarce land
* Sense of adventure and reform
* Rumors and advertisements of better land
* Jews
* Driven out of Russia by pogroms
* West Indies and Mexico ?
Issues surrounding 3rd wave of immigration
* Immigrants were willing to work at lower wages than 'native-born'
* Tend to be unskilled and in poverty
* Social Darwinism indicates that they are lazy
* Prefer their native language and customs, which the natives have grown out of
Who the new immigrants are
* Latin America - Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Phillipines
* Southeast Asians
China, India, Vietnam, and Laos.
* Middle East - Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Bangladesh, Turkey
X Refugees - Albania, former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Sudan, Vietnam, Laos
* Africans - Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana
Reasons for modern immigration
* Latin America
* Wages - Average weekly earnings in Mexico is $20, average in US is $280
* Low quality housing
* Filling unskilled labor
* Southeast Asians
* 16% science and engineering jobs filled with immigrants
* Education opportunities
* Higher job wages
* Middle East
* Fighting near Gaza Strip
* Iraq stuff
* Higher standard of living
* Africans
* Civil war
* Persecution
Issues surrounding modern immigration
* Latin America
* Competition for jobs - Center For Immigration studies claims low-skilled workers lose $1800 a year because of competition
* Unskilled immigrants
* Others
* Educated immigrants to be better educated and often fill middle class job positions, which are often hard to find.
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