Immigration

The study of immigration is a part of the study of the dispersion of the human race over the surface of the earth, but only one of the most recent parts. The most important popu...

In taking up the special study of immigration, it is necessary to bear in mind at the outset that the word is to be used in a limited and semitechnical sense. It is not always s...

With the beginning of the life of the United States as a separate nation, all strangers arriving at her shores, whencesoever they came, are to be classed as immigrants. From thi...

The first act passed by the federal government of the United States which can in any way be called an immigration law was primarily designed, not to restrict or control the admi...

passengers, and $1 each for steerage passengers, mates, sailors, and mariners, payable by the master of every vessel from a foreign port arriving at a New York port. The proceed...

The disturbances connected with the Civil War, following the industrial depression of 1857, naturally produced a diminution in the immigration current, which in the year 1862 fe...

The year 1882 stands as a prominent landmark in the history of immigration into the United States. In that year the total immigration reached the figure of 788,992, a point whic...

As regards the volume of the immigration current the modern period has witnessed a continuation of the same general process which has been going on since 1820. The same successi...

There are two things which the student of sociological problems—like every other scientist—wishes to know about the phenomena which fall within his field. These are the causes a...

It was remarked in an earlier paragraph that the effects of immigration were largely a matter of the future. This may have seemed like too sweeping a statement. Yet it will prov...

The immigrant first comes under the official control of the United States government when he arrives at the port of destination. There are a number of seaports on the Atlantic a...

The student who turns to the investigation of immigration conditions within the United States at once finds himself hindered by a serious lack of material. As has been stated ab...

We turn now to a closer study of the life conditions of the immigrants after they have been admitted to this country, and have become a part of our body politic. These condition...

The standard of living of any family or individual[222] is the resultant of two principal factors. These are the desires and appetites of the individual or family and the amount...

There is a group of peculiar economic institutions which have been developed by the immigrants in this country, and which are especially characteristic of the new immigration. T...

Turning to those aspects of the immigration situation in this country which more immediately affect the life of the American people as a whole, we find that they group themselve...

It has been observed already that the great argument for immigration during the past half century has been the economic one. The main defense for immigration has rested upon the...

It was stated on an earlier page that the immigration situation, in most of its important characteristics, presents an entirely new aspect to the men of this generation, and tha...

Much is said and written in these days about the “immigration problem,” yet it is only rarely that there appears a conscious effort to prove that such a problem exists, or to an...

The effects of the immigration movement upon the countries of source are in a way much more simple than the effects upon the United States. None of the problems of race mixture,...