美国当代拉美裔移民问题管窥——拉美移民潮与美利坚文明聚合力

始于20世纪60年代的美国第三次拉美移民潮以墨西哥移民为主体,它具有移民分布集中,历史与语言文化风格独特,规模庞大的特点。拉美移民族群难融于美国主流社会,美利坚文明的聚合力受到了冲击,从而招致美国社会的不满以及政府政策的限制,这引起了美国与拉美有关国家之间的外交摩擦。本文试图对拉美移民潮给美国社会所带来的影响作出客观评价。

Latin Immigrants in the United States and the Cohesive Force of American Civilization

The third rolling trend of Latin immigration in the United States began in the 1960s and its main body was Mexican immigrants. The characteristic of this Latin immigration could be illustrated by three aspects including mass distributing, the culture trait and the large scale. Amalgamation of Latin immigrants in the United States was very difficult. So the cohesive force of American civilization was affected. American core society was discontent with this status and American restrictive immigration policies were put into practice. So there were constant frictions in the matter of Latin immigrants between Latin Amercian countries and the United States. This paper studies the positive and negative influence of the Latin immigration on American society.