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

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.