Question

What elements of society's attitude toward immigrants emerge during their experience in hooverville?

Answer 1

Hoovervilles were infamous shanty towns that developed during the Great Depression if the 1920's.

Poorly built housing, sometimes encroaching private and public land, was a necessity for families who had lost everything. 

As a lot of these people were work-class and had lost their jobs, there was a general resentment towards all kinds of immigrants to the country who were seen as 'stealing jobs'.

During the Great depression a general environment of mis-trust, resentment and even hostility towards immigrants developed.


Society, as a whole was not sympathetic, and 'every man was for himself' in these troubled times.

Modern theory states that immigrants, along with Jews were used as 'scape-goats' for the failing policies of the Government.