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Inventing the Immigration Problem

The Dillingham Commission and its Legacy

Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Inventing the Immigration Problem

Inventing the Immigration Problem

The Dillingham Commission and its Legacy

Inventing the Immigration Problem

 

In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts--women and men trained in the new field of social science--fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals.


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Beschrijving Inventing the Immigration Problem

The Dillingham Commission created by Congress in 1907 to collect data on a perceived immigration problem remains the largest U.S. immigration study ever conducted. Katherine Benton-Cohen shows that its Progressive formulation and recommendations endure in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement a century later.


ISBN
9780674976443
Pagina's
330
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Harvard University Press

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