Annotated Bibliography
Bier,
David. “Why The Legal Immigration System Is Broken: A Short List of Problems.” CATO Institute, 10 July 2018, https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-system-broken-short-list-problems.
Accessed 23 February 2019
In
“Why The Legal Immigration System Is Broken: A Short List of Problems,” David
Bier points out several flaws with the current immigration system in the United
States. He begins by listing 26 problem and then explains each one of the
problems separately. I feel this will be useful for my paper because Diego mentioned
how broken the system in.
Bishop,
Sarah C. “Model Citizens: The Making of an American Throughout the
Naturalization Process.” Communication,
Culture & Critique. Sep2017, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p479-498. Kennesaw State Library System, doi:10.1111/cccr.12167.
Accessed 23 February 2019
Sarah Bishop’s article called, “Model Citizens: The
Making of an American Throughout the Naturalization Process,” goes into great
detail about the citizenship process. She has written with critical tones of
the whole process. She claims the process “trains” the applicant to become the “model
citizen” She points out some flaws with the process a well which also supports
another source I have. I don’t particularly care for the tone she uses in this
article but the information and some of the parallels are going to be major
points in my final product.
Evanson,
Nina. “Colombian Culture.” Cultural Atlas,
https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/colombian-culture/references-04b30d6c-b391-4785-a93e-30cae59d1e85#references-04b30d6c-b391-4785-a93e-30cae59d1e85.
Accessed 23 February 2019.
“Colombian Culture” by Nina Evanson is a section of the
website Cultural Atlas, that discusses
all aspects of Colombian Culture. The main part I will be focusing on is the
family section. Evanson begins the section showing the importance of family in
Colombian Culture. She then breaks the family aspect down into three deeper
sections: household structure, gender roles, and marriage and dating. I cited
the entire Colombian section because I feel like I might be able to use more
than just the family section. It contains a lot of information about Colombian
culture. If I end up using only the family section, I will come back ad change
my citation to reflect that.
Watson,
Cynthia A. "Civil-Military Relations in Colombia: A Workable Relationship
Or a Case for Fundamental Reform?" Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3,
2000, pp. 529-548. ProQuest,
https://login.proxy.kennesaw.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.kennesaw.edu/docview/219816593?accountid=11824,
doi:http://dx.doi.org.proxy.kennesaw.edu/10.1080/713701039. Accessed 23
February 2019.
In
“Civil-Military Relations in Colombia: A Workable Relationship Or a Case for
Fundamental Reform?" by Cythia Watson, she describes the turmoil and
divisiveness in Colombia’s government. She starts out by showing how the
geography of Colombia is what started out the divide. She then goes back to the
late 40’s and progresses up until this article was written about the causes of
violence and political strife in Colombia. This will be useful for getting a
feel of why Diego’s family wanted to come here. It will help me to understand
their emotions during that time of transition as well as his dad’s motivation
to work any job for any amount of money
when they first arrived.
Source Analysis and Conversation
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Name
and Author
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“Why
The Legal Immigration System Is Broken: A Short List of Problems” By: David
Bier
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“Model
Citizens: The Making of an American Throughout the Naturalization Process.”
By: Sarah C Bishop
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“Colombian
Culture” By Nina Evanson
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"Civil-Military
Relations in Colombia: A Workable Relationship Or a Case for Fundamental
Reform?" By: Cynthia A. Watson
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Thesis/Main
Topic
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The
immigration system is broken.
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The
U.S. molds immigrants into “model citizens” though the citizenship process.
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Aspects
of Colombian culture
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Civil-Military
Relations
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Point
#1 and evidence
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Too
restrictive.
We
rank in the bottom third of top 50 countries in GDP on immigration rate
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Tasks
required for naturalization don’t have much to do with legality.
Immigrants
claim their allegiance to the U.S. in their oath
|
Family
is the most important aspect of Colombian culture.
Colombians
are expected to put family interests above their own.
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Colombia
is more of a geographical entity than is it a country.
The
government has not provided basic services to areas outside the urban and coastal
areas of Colombia
|
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Point
#2
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Static
Immigration Quotas.
Quotas
have not been updated since 1990 while the population has grown 30% and the
economy has doubled
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Citizenship
requirements have helped keep out unwanted immigrants.
Quota
systems based on nationalities.
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This
neglect has opened the door for more violence and division.
Geurillas, drug traffickers, and paramilitary have all taken refuge in the
northwest where the government is absent.
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Point
#3
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Demographic
quotas.
No
country can receive more than 7% of a category’s green cards
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Immigrants
have to meet certain criteria that naturally born citizens don’t.
Immigrants
must speak English, citizens are not required to.
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Point
#4
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Immigrants
wait in line for decades.
Mexican
immigrants who just got their green cards have been waiting for 2 decades.
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Good
Moral Character is ambiguous.
Nothing
says what offenses prohibit you from having good moral character. Just a list
of things that may or may not work
against them.
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This was a difficult assignment for me as most of my
sources are unrelated. The only to I could find some parallels between were the
ones by Bier and Bishop. They both mention the demographic quotas of the
immigration process. I feel like if they were having a conversation, they would
be very much in agreement that the quotas are bad for the system in general.
Bier would base his argument that it bogs the system down whereas I feel
Bishops argument is that it isn’t fair to take in immigrants based off demographics.
It was interesting to see different aspects of the same point of view.
