| Immigration: General Introduction |
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This unit is an exciting integration of geography and
Spanish on a topic of critical national and local importance around
the globe: immigration. Using case studies from Oregon, a state with
a substantial Spanish-speaking population and vibrant immigrant communities,
students will learn some of the fundamentals of geographical analysis
as they plot the growth and settlement patterns of Hispanic populations
across the state. Students will explore key important geographical questions:
- What compels people to uproot themselves from their home culture
and reestablish their lives somewhere else?
- What is the impact of immigration on the places that receive immigrant
populations?
- What is the life of an immigrant like?
Each of these questions can draw students deeper into the issues surrounding
immigration, and the customizable activities presented in these units
allow teachers to personalize the topics for their students by examining
their own local communities. At the same time, students receive linguistic
input and produce output on crucial Advanced level language functions
such as detailed descriptions, comparisons, and past narration, in addition
to recycling lower-level functions (e.g., asking information questions). |
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| Objectives Students will be able to... |
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Geogrpahy Standards:
- describe and compare the physical, human, and cultural characteristics
of places
- describe the distribution of human populations and their changes
over time
- use maps/charts to express spatial relations and to represent demographic
and historical data
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Second Language Standards
- describe and compare location, physical characteristics of places
and people
- narrate in past and present time frames
- ask information questions
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This unit examines an interesting and little studied wave of immigration
to the US state of Oregon: Basques from northern Spain came to the western
US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and established
stable communities that are still in existence today. The examination
of this group serves as a case study, introducing students to the general
phenomena that characterize human migration. Students learn about the
basic "push" and "pull" factors that motivate migration
and study details of the consequences of displacement on peoples and
their communities. Changes in demographics have an impact on every aspect
of human activity, language, and culture. |
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Unit 3 examines two waves of immigration from Mexico to Oregon.
The first group arrived in the years following the Second World War
under the Bracero program. The second group began arriving in the 1980's
and continues to the present day. These activities allow student to
gain a historical perspective through chronological ordering. Also,
they investigate the specific demographic differences between the groups,
in terms of occupations held, settlement patterns, and cultural impact
on the state. |
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