Reading Review Questions for Immigrants Old and New
1. According to the author, how are the new immigrants (from Latin America and the Caribbean )
different from past waves of European (and Asian) immigrants?
2. What is “nativism”?
3. Describe the three nativist surges against immigrants, which the author discusses.
4. What, when and why were programs in the US to bring in Mexicans to the US?
5. What are remittances? Were you surprised to learn the amounts and importance of
remittances?
6. Discuss one of the “myths” about immigration that the author highlights.
7. What are four reasons that the author believes immigration from Latin America and the
Caribbean will continue into the 21st Century?
8. What rhetoric of past nativist movements do we hear repeated today in anti-immigrant
arguments?