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Immigration : an American dilemma

Title
Immigration : an American dilemma / edited with an introduction by Benjamin Munn Ziegler.
Publication
Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, [1953]

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Additional Authors
Ziegler, Benjamin Munn
Description
118 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Discusses immigration to the United States prior to World War I and forward in a selection of essays.
Series Statement
  • Problems in American civilization
  • Heath new history series
Uniform Title
  • Problems in American civilization.
  • Heath new history series.
Subject
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • emigration
  • Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
  • immigration
  • migrations (events)
  • Emigration and immigration
  • United States > Emigration and immigration
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography.
Contents
Historical Background. Immigration policy prior to World War I / Carl Wittke -- Immigration policy since World War I / Edward P. Hutchinson -- Immigration to the United States, 1820-1951 -- Immigration quotas (as of 1951) -- Immigration and American Culture. The melting-pot mistake / Henry Pratt Fairchild -- Democracy and the melting pot / Horace M. Kallen -- The Immigrant: Social and Economic Problems . Conditions in America as affected by immigration / Henry Pratt Fairchild -- Economic effects of immigration / William S. Bernard -- The Immigrant in the Body Politic. Immigrants in politics: the political consequences of immigration / Edward Alsworth Ross -- The immigrant and American politics / Oscar Handlin -- Americans by choice / John Palmer Gavit -- The Immigration Issue Today. Who are our new immigrants? / Frank L. Auerbach -- The Walter-McCarran Immigration Bill -- President Truman's message to the House on the veto of Immigration Bill -- Speech of Senator McCarran -- Excerpts from report by President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization, "Whom We Shall Welcome" -- Statement by Senator McCarran regarding the report by the President's Commission -- International Implications. Possibilities and limits of international control of migration / Carter Goodrich -- Suggestions for additional reading.
LCCN
53008474
OCLC
  • ocm00504194
  • 504194
  • SCSB-187130
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library