Notes on Immigration and Emigration

Today in human geo class we reviewed our notes from the powerpoint some key points are:
-Family Reunification

-about 3/4 of immigrants

-Skilled Workers

-about 1/4 of immigrants

-sending countries alleged preference for skilled workers contributes to the brain drain- a term for the highly skilled and intelligent citizens migrating away from sending countries

-DiversityFew immigrants admitted because their sending country sent many migrants

-Anchor babies- illegal immigrants have babies in the U.S., making the children U.S. citizens

Some of the things we learned is that countries need ways to control immigration and emigration. They have policies for those exact reasons. The passing of the Quota Act took place in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924. Those acts ended unrestricted immigration in the U.S. Some of the restrictions to even qualify to get looked at are if you are beat or have been down graded because you're a woman.