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HISTORY 101AA (Spring 2012)

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Updated: February 29, 2012

Contemporary Europe Watch 130 pts.        
DUE: Thursday, April 19th

For each weekday this assignment is late I will deduct ten points.  A works cited page must be attached.  If one is not attached I will immediately deduct one grade.

Format:
1. Type and double-space your paper.  1" margins and 12 point font please.
2. The following should be included: G# in upper right-hand corner, History 101AA, Contemporary Europe Watch, and the due date.
3.  NO NAME.  I will deduct 10 pts. off the top if you put your name on it.
4. Please put page numbers on the paper.
5. Works Cited Page at the end with a list of the resources you used.  Use the Skyline College library website on how to format your resources.
6. Minimum of five full pages.

No doubt you will have to give me some statistics on your country, therefore I recommend using the CIA WorldFactbook site. Other reliable resources might be the BBC, International Herald Tribune or the following link on the Library website.

"News Sites" page is:
http://www.skylinecollege.edu/library/worldnewslinks.html (Students can
get there by clicking on "Find Articles" from the library home page, then
"News Sites" under "Newspaper/News Databases."
From the "News Sites" page, there are also links to two "Directories of
News Sites"--"World Newspapers and Magazines", "IPL Newspapers"--which
link to hundreds more news sites around the world.

"And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed." (German Chancellor Andrea Merkel, October, 2010)

"Immigration Issues Test Unity of the European Union: NPR" (February 28, 2011)

Immigration has become the number one social issue in Europe.  Naturally, social, political and economic issues are all intertwined.  Your job:

1. Choose one Western European country.
2. What are the current immigration laws?  Give me a cursory overview.  Why are the laws so lax?  Or, if not lax then tell me why they are so strict?
3. Critique the immigration policies of the country.  Critique means to comment on something giving its good as well as bad qualities.
4.  How is the issue of immigration affecting the political policies in your country?  OR
How is the issue of immigration affecting the economic policies in your country?