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Economic Nationalism, Immigration, and Higher Education

Economic Nationalism, Immigration, and Higher Education Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:535–543 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09922-6 NATIONALISM Economic Nationalism, Immigration, and Higher Education Pedro Gonzalez Accepted: 21 July 2020 /Published online: 12 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 Kevin Flanagan studied computer science and philosophy at California State University in Long Beach. By all accounts, he was an analytically minded problem-solver, so no one was surprised when Flanagan graduated and went on to work as a programmer at Bank of America's Concord Technology Center in San Francisco's East Bay in 1996. It was there that Flanagan bought himself a house in Pleasant Hill, and it was there that in 2003, he killed himself in the Bank of America parking complex at the age of forty-one. For months, Bank of America forced Flanagan and his colleagues to train their foreign replacements before laying them off, tying their severance packages to the humiliating task. These replacements had entered the United States on the H-1B visa. Created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B program enables foreign nationals with specific skills to enter the country and work in a relevant industry. The original intent, as Senator Barack Obama recognized in 2007, "is that H-1B visas only be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Questions Springer Journals

Economic Nationalism, Immigration, and Higher Education

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Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:535–543 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09922-6 NATIONALISM Economic Nationalism, Immigration, and Higher Education Pedro Gonzalez Accepted: 21 July 2020 /Published online: 12 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 Kevin Flanagan studied computer science and philosophy at California State University in Long Beach. By all accounts, he was an analytically minded problem-solver, so no one was surprised when Flanagan graduated and went on to work as a programmer at Bank of America's Concord Technology Center in San Francisco's East Bay in 1996. It was there that Flanagan bought himself a house in Pleasant Hill, and it was there that in 2003, he killed himself in the Bank of America parking complex at the age of forty-one. For months, Bank of America forced Flanagan and his colleagues to train their foreign replacements before laying them off, tying their severance packages to the humiliating task. These replacements had entered the United States on the H-1B visa. Created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B program enables foreign nationals with specific skills to enter the country and work in a relevant industry. The original intent, as Senator Barack Obama recognized in 2007, "is that H-1B visas only be

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