Inventing the immigration problem : the Dillingham Commission and its legacy /

"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 da...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benton-Cohen, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
United States. > Immigration Commission (1907-1910) > Influence.
United States. > Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
1901-1953
Demographic surveys > United States.
Enquêtes démographiques > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Demographic surveys
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > History > 1901-1953.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1901-1953.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The professor and the commission
  • The gentlemen's agreement
  • Hebrew or Jewish is simply a religion
  • The vanishing American wage earner
  • Women's power and knowledge
  • The American type
  • Not a question of too many immigrants.

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