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This edition: Immigration, Social Policy, and Employment





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Episode Details

Students discuss the history of immigration laws in the U.S. and examine the various waves of immigrants who came to the U.S., the reasons why they came, and their reactions after they got here. The lesson ends by focusing on the impact of increasing diversity on our current and future workforce.
Video guests:
* Marian Smith, Chief Librarian at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
* David Duke, author
* Professor Carlos Munoz Jr., University of California at Berkeley
* Dr. Samuel Betances, Professor Emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University
* Professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

Guest List

David Duke Author

Prof. Carlos Jr. Munoz University of California at Berkeley

Marian Smith Chief Librarian, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

Prof. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco Harvard University

  • About this series

  • As the 21st century opens the United States along with nations around the world struggle to deal with a planet that has been become a global village. The challenges are both inter-cultural and intra-cultural. And for nations like the U.S. continued immigration from around the world constantly brings new ethnic/racial cultural challenges to an already diverse society. Dealing with Diversity introduces viewers to people from many diverse populations in an effort to help students understand the different constraints and motivations of people from backgrounds different from their own.

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