Week Four Flashcards
Politics of Language and Bans
Burqa Ban
Face coverings banned in all public spaces
Secure communities initiative of 2008
Facilitated the sharing of info between local agencies and ice (immigration customs enforcement), required all prisoners to be screened for their immigration status
Hainueller and Hiscox 2007
Higher-skilled folks prefer more immigration than lower-skilled folks, and everyone prefers high-skilled immigration
2001 Patriot Act
Created Department of Homeland Security; Expanded Border Enforcement and Ground of Inadmissibility
What did Abdelgadir and Fouka’s study on the headscarf ban in France show
The ban increased high school dropout rates and identification with the father’s country of origin for Muslim girls
Operation Allies Welcome 2021
Private citizens getting involved in refugee resettlement; the US, Canada, Spain, Austria, and New Zealand follow this model
German-Americans Ban
WWII made Germans an enemy to Americans; this made for a more cultural attachment to their German identity
Prop 227
1998 CA prop that banned the use of bilingual education in public schools deeply affected ELL students
Foulard Affair (1989)
Secularism, signed into law in 1905, the separation of church and state, laicite was being threatened by veils