Immigration - Case Study | Assignment

Chapter 6 is another chapter with additional dark moments of our history. The so-called "Progressive Era" 1890 - 1927 used Darwin theory of survival of the fittest to define "good genes". Please respond to Part 1 and Part 2 Part 1: Please choose 1 out of 4 topics covered to answer by Thursday - immigration, sterilization/eugenics, institutionalization, and industrialization Immigration - do you find similar patterns today and 100-128 years ago? Find one person with disabilities (real or perceived) and explain why she or he emigrated to America and were rejected/deported? Part 2: answer ONE question Junius Wilson: Who was he? Why was he castrated? What was Mr Wilson's true disability?

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Name of the Student
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Answer to part 1
There has been changes in the degrees of integration in the U.S with each passing
generation. Irrespective of the initial location of the immigrants, there has been the urge to
develop their mastery over English in order to accommodate them within the new domain.
According to the data of the Census it has been seen that there has been a drastic changes in
the pattern of the immigration for over a period of almost 100 years starting from the year of
1907 and continued till 2017. As compared to the initial years of immigration, the
contemporary situation is experiencing a shift in terms of the skill and the education of the
immigrants that has allowed them to enhance their competence in the newer world. The
living of the immigrants have been dispersed throughout the US (Gill and Erevelles 2017).
Junius Wilson was a deaf and the black person who had been arrested on the charges
of raping a girl and under the allegation of the sexual violation, he had been sent to the
mental asylum in the suspicion of insanity and had been kept in prison even after he was
charged free. He had also been put through castration (Gill and Erevelles 2017).
Answer to part 2
This section of the story involves the study of the individual named Junius Wilson.
The case is placed in the year of 1928 where the act of castration was given a legal status. He
was of black origin and had hearing inability. HE was charged with the attempts of
perpetrating rape at the age of 28. He had been declared as insane without any substantial
proof and later had been sent of the to the mental hospital for the black people located in
Carolina. However, when the charges against him were being dropped he was still kept in the
prison. Owing to the inhuman and the discriminatory treatment that the concerned person had
suffered under the legal order in the prison it was anticipated that he might face an undue
death. His castration could be looked at as the punishment against his undue and unproven

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crime. The case of Junius Wilson exhibits the subverted perspective of the Darwin’s survival
of the fittest and the pure gene. His disability was in his inability to see properly along with
his inability to hear. However, his marginalization and the discrimination perpetrated against
him ranged from his disability as well as from his black identity (Gordillo 2018).

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References
Gill, M. and Erevelles, N., 2017. The absent presence of Elsie Lacks: Hauntings at the
intersection of race, class, gender, and disability. African American Review, 50(2), pp.123-
137.
Gordillo, L.M., 2018. The Cultural Politics of US Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media.