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The Environmental Impact Of Immigration In The United States, Guizhen Ma
The Environmental Impact Of Immigration In The United States, Guizhen Ma
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Population growth increases pressure on the environment. Immigration may be harmful to the environment because it is the major force of population growth in the United States. However, this argument has not been supported by research findings. A few studies on this topic show that locations with higher numbers of immigrants experience better air quality than locations with greater proportions of U.S.-born residents. This research investigated the environmental impact of immigration through three independent studies. First, I tested the relationship between U.S.-born population, foreign-born population, and air quality across all the U.S. continental counties. This study analyzed the air quality …
Gender And Social Acceptance Of Immigrants In A New Destination Site, Emma Meade Earl
Gender And Social Acceptance Of Immigrants In A New Destination Site, Emma Meade Earl
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In this article, I draw on secondary interview data with LatinX immigrants in Cache Valley, Utah, an emerging new destination site in the Inter-Mountain West. While immigrants are drawn to new destinations by employment opportunities, quality of life, or low cost of living, they face many challenges in integrating socially into fairly homogenous communities, which can be particularly challenging for immigrant women. This thesis analyzes the ways in which gender affects social integration in the specific cultural and demographic context of Cache Valley. Using interviews with 16 men and women, I examine gender differences in perceptions of the community, experiences …
Bringing The States Back In: Institutional Determinants Of State Level Immigration Policies, Paul D. Jacobs
Bringing The States Back In: Institutional Determinants Of State Level Immigration Policies, Paul D. Jacobs
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
For the record 42 million immigrants residing in the U.S., the ease with which they can integrate into society is heavily determined by what state they reside in. While immigration policy formation at the state level is new due to the historical supremacy that the federal government has had on this issue, the federal stalemate at the federal level has led the states to pass more than 1,500 immigration laws since 2005. How states come to enact inclusive or exclusionary immigration policies is not well understood. Previous scholarship has examined many important predictors of these inclusive or exclusionary laws, but …
By-Products: Immigration, Raids, And Meatpacking In Rural Communities, Kevin D. Hanks
By-Products: Immigration, Raids, And Meatpacking In Rural Communities, Kevin D. Hanks
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this thesis is to show the short- and long-term responses and adaptations of workers and employers in the meatpacking industry to the new immigration enforcement strategy of the increased use of worksite immigration raids. Worksite raids have become part of the new immigration enforcement strategy of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (I.C.E.). A review of the literature regarding the meatpacking industry, its history, relocation to and impacts on rural communities, and of immigration policy over the last 70 years is conducted. A case study of the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Hyrum, Utah that experienced …