Psychology - Immigration online

Intelligence testing: Later Perspectives

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:46:53 -0500

Relatively soon after the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, the popularity of using racial theories of intelligence as guideposts to immigration law and policy waned.

Intelligence testing: Intelligence Testing and Immigration Law

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:45:24 -0500

The psychological work with the closest influence on later immigration policy was performed by Robert Yerkes of Harvard University.

Intelligence testing

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:43:55 -0500

The nascent science of intelligence testing developed in confluence with growing support for more severe controls on the acceptance of foreign-born entrants to the United States.

Immigration Act of 1924

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:38:02 -0600

The act represented the first major attempt to restrict immigration into the United States.

Immigration Act of 1917

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:12:11 -0600

The Immigration Act of 1917 was the first federal law to impose a general restriction on immigration in the form of a literacy test.

Health care

Sergey Tokarev — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:21:49 -0600

The access of recently arrived immigrants to health care in the United States has often been limited by cultural and language barriers, lack of information, and economic disparities.

Gay and lesbian immigrants

Sergey Tokarev — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:59:42 -0600

U.S. immigration law has historically excluded openly gay and lesbian individuals on various bases, ranging from classifications of them as morally or medically unfit to their perceived social and political threats to the desirable character of American society.

Eugenics movement

Sergey Tokarev — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:53:01 -0600

The eugenics movement had a significant influence on U.S. immigration policy. Politicians, reformers, and civic leaders imbued with a sense of Americanism and scientific justification enacted laws to limit immigration to what they regarded as “desirable” types.

English as a second language

Sergey Tokarev — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:48:49 -0500

As an instructional tool to help language-minority students develop English-language skills, the English as a second language program came into popular usage during the late 1950’s.