Author Topic: Need a lil help with a research paper.. (Read 478 times)

_Ro_ · « **on:** November 20, 2007, 06:12:15 PM »

I need a little help with a research paper I'm doing for a sociology class...20 pages by tomorrow.

If you can help great, and i'm interested in hearing different points of view.

The focus group is foreign nationals 65+ that are first generation in this country. I'm mainly looking at eastern europeans but other groups i will look at as well.

Why did they come here? Political event? war? poverty? minority of their own country? How many came per ethic group and the time frame.

Where did they settle? What state? what were some of the problems with coming to America? salary? cultural differences? language berriers?

I know some of the reasons for Hungarians and the numbers. 9 million Hungarians came to the US from the 1880's to early 1900's.,but even that can be misleading since the borders have changed so much, Ellis Island might have logged them as Hungarian but they could have been Serb, Croat, or Slovak

Any help or points of view i would be interested in.. links would help out greatly!!!

thx

Meatwad · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:18:39 PM »

20 pages by tomorrow?

You might be screwed

Donzo · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:22:16 PM »

20 pages by tomorrow?

Is this for high school or college?

Meatwad · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:25:45 PM »

How long ago was this assigned?

And you put it off until the day before its due?

Tac · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:26:06 PM »

is this rip's kid?

you aint going hunting boy

Golfer · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:28:35 PM »

Do your own paper! Your teacher probably assigned this to you 3 weeks ago.

Meatwad · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:30:48 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Tac
is this rip's kid?

you aint going hunting boy

eskimo2 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:34:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Tac
is this rip's kid?

you aint going hunting boy

LOL!
True

_Ro_ · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:37:32 PM »

Let me reword this, this paper is for my wife. She 75% done with the paper and it's for her PhD.

She wanted to know if i can use the BB to get some insite on ppls eithnic background..... I guess if you are eastern european background more than likely you are like me a 3d generation immigrant.

Why did you grandparent come here? What problems did they have?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2007, 06:40:38 PM »

Is straight white british / german ethnic enough?

Golfer · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2007, 07:39:03 PM »

I can't get all of that information this late in the game but my great grandpa on my fathers side came from Hungary. My mothers side was here a loooooooong time ago dating back to fighting in the American Revolution. Their lines go all the way back to Egbert I've been told and shown by my genealogically inclined grandmother.

texasmom · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2007, 07:43:37 PM »

My Attata (Grandpa) came over on a small boat from Russia. don't know exactly when ~ it was when he was a small child, about 90 years ago. They settled in northern Alaska (north of Nome) ~ been herding reindeer there ever since.

Even today, they still skin seals, make their own boats, etc.

Don't know about language being a barrier. It was cold as all get out. Hunting food & keeping in shelter were always key ~ that wasn't any different from where they departed though.

Lots of their lives always revolved around the sled dogs. My Attata ran supplies using the dogs for the Alaskan Territorial Guard during WWII.

*edit* I'm not entirely certain it was the allure of America that drove them here. And I'm still pretty certain that our family considers themselves to be first Inupiaq, American second.

68ROX · « **Reply #12 on:** November 21, 2007, 11:05:31 AM »

There was a MAJOR Irish influx both before and after the civil war. The Italian wave started in the late 1880's and peaked around 1910.

As for Eastern Europe, the largest blast was 1945 to 1955...as "displaced persons" or "DP's" from all of Eastern Europe poured in before Stalin put up the Iron Curtain and wouldn't let people leave.

I went in 1979 to Germany to see the Iron Curtain myself and was very moved.

Before & after WWII, many Serbs, Croats, and Slovieniens came to the US, and many settled around Chicago.

Many Swedes came just before WWI and settled in Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin as farmers. Around the same time frame, many Finns and Swedes came and settled in Northern Michigan and Minnesota.

Many of this was made possible between 1880 and 1914 by larger steamships (like Titanic) that took immigrants in 3rd class cheaper than ever before.

It's interesting that immigration, in many cases, becomes very localised.

68ROX