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Item Anthracite and the Irish : extricating the Irish immigrant mining community from the Molly Maguire myth, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1879(1996) Byron, William Francis, 1959-; Argersinger, Peter.; History; Historical StudiesThe Molly Maguires were a reputed secret society of Irish immigrant mine workers who allegedly terrorized the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania from the Civil War until twenty men convicted as Molly Maguires were hanged in the late 1870s. The sensational nature of the Molly trials and executions has spawned a myth concerning the Molly Maguires which has clouded historical understanding of the episode. One of the unfortunate results of the Molly Maguire myth is that the legacy of the nineteenth-century anthracite Irish mining community has been inextricably and wrongly tied to the legacy of the alleged criminal activities of the Molly Maguires. The thesis seeks to draw a portrait of the Irish mining community of one anthracite county, Schuylkill, with as much depth as possible. The thesis first details Irish demographics and culture within Schuylkill County and proceeds to follow the Irish community through the years of the first regional mine workers' union to the destruction of the union as a consequence of the bitter ''Long Strike" of 1875 . The thesis demonstrates that negative expectations of the Irish conditioned negative perceptions by Schuylkill County's native population. The mass executions of the alleged Molly Maguires were only possible because of the deep anti-Irish sentiment that existed in Schuylkill among the non Irish, from Anglo-Protestant mine bosses to the large Welsh immigrant mining community.Item The Economics of Immigration w/ Dr. Giovanni Peri(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2022-05-30) Anson, Ian; Peri, Giovanni; Filomeno, Felipe; Brown, ChristopherItem The other immigrants: How the super-rich skirt quotas and closed borders(Latina Lista, 2015-09-09) Short, John RennieThe mass media are filled with images of desperate refugees struggling to escape civil unrest. But it is not only the poor and the displaced who are on the move. The rich, especially from countries such as Russia and China, are also leaving their home countries, but they are not faced with fences and rejection but welcomes and encouragement.Item The other immigrants: how the super-rich skirt quotas and closed borders(The Conversation, 2015-09-09) Short, John RennieItem Point of Entry: The Faces and Voices of Some of Baltimore’s Older Immigrants(Rosebud Entertainment, LLC, 2018-02) Minner, Ashley; Sean, ScheidtItem The Social Science of Board Games w/ Dr. Kerri Evans(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2022-06-13) Anson, Ian; Evans, Kerri; Lee, Jiyoon; Allen, Keisha; Chen, Eric; Gawens, Sarah; Li, Xiaoming; Javed, Shahana Abdul; Pereira, Ashley; Alonso, Diane; O’Brien, Eileen; Brodsky, AnneItem The association between parent and child educational attainment for first- and second-generation immigrants(2016-01-01) Malihom, Dann; Mair, Christine A; Sociology and Anthropology; Sociology, AppliedThis theses looks at the association between parent and child educational attainment for various immigrant groups in the United States. Specifically, this study seeks to determine if (1) there is a measurable association between parent and child educational attainment and (2) if this association is weaker for Asian Americans when compared to other immigrant groups. There is also exploratory analysis to measure trends within other immigrant groups. Regression analysis was conducted using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) to measure the association between educational attainment along with cultural value controls and sociodemographic controls. A statistically significant association was found between parent and child educational attainment. The weakest association was for Asian immigrants, while the strongest association was for Caribbean immigrants. Mexican immigrants did not have a statistically significant association between parent and child'seducational attainment.