2. Yet the history of immigratio By Aristide R. Zolberg ... 658 pp., $45.50 hb, $22.95 pb. A1903 act tightened regulations and mandated medical examinations of would-beimmigrants before embarkation, and 1907 saw the establishment of an ImmigrationCommission and a federal Division of Naturalization. The law eventually enacted in 1790 provided that free white persons ofsatisfactory character would be eligible for naturalization after two yearsâresidence in the United States (later increased to five). Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.65). The commission would issue a series of reportsbetween 1994 and 1997.But a small influx of immigrants from southern(5 percent) and eastern (7 percent) Europe was also beginning. In the wake of thisvictory, delegates from thirteen states convened in New York to set up whatthey called the American Party.
A tax of 50 cents wasintroduced in 1882, doubled at an unspecified date, doubled again to $2 in1903, then to $4 in 1907 and finally to $8 in 1917. Thepresiding judge sternly warned the defendants âthere can be no such thing as adivided national allegiance.âThe peak antebellum year for immigration was1854, with 414,933 recorded arrivals. Asians remained totally excluded. Most users should sign in with their email address. The belief that new forms of immigration bring unprecedented challenges to social welfare, national identity, and security and thus demand new forms of regulation has framed immigration debates in the United States for well over two centuries. The taxes seem, however, tohave had limited effect: 1882âs record immigration of 788,992 was exceeded in1903; the million mark was passed in 1905; and 1907 saw 1,285,349 arrivalsâafigure unsurpassed until 1990.Such pronouncements multiply as the narrativepasses the 1964 Act and approaches the battles of the present. This sort of clannishspirit begets one of opposition, lessens the public liberality, and militatesagainst the public harmony.... Their conduct is highly indelicate, and a veryimproper return for the courtesy extended to them in permitting them to electand be elected to office.In June 1948, President Truman signed theDisplaced Persons Act, leading to the resettlement of some 410,000 persons inthe United States.
Contents/Summary. Like the Chinese coolies, they were often singlemen who intended to earn money and then return to their native land: sojournersrather than true immigrants. This is an authoritative account of American immigration history and the political and social factors that brought it about. But it is a leitmotif that erases rather than recalls past themes, making possible an infinite succession of high dramas that neither build on nor resolve past conflicts.For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription.This PDF is available to Subscribers Only It had takentwenty-nine years from Bemisâs first proposal.In his first year as President, Kennedyfacilitated the settlement of 100,000 refugees from the Communist takeover inCuba. The result was âa vastly broader diversity of racial, linguisticand religious groups than existed in any kingdom of Western Europe.âIn 1891, a comprehensive law federalizedimmigration enforcement, creating a new superintendent of immigration withinthe Treasury Department. The mountain had gone into labor and broughtforth...nothing much. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Title.
The act also provided for permanent inspectionstations at both land and sea borders: Ellis Island opened for business withina year.Chinese immigration increased from 4,300 peryear in the period 1861-1867 to over 20,000 per year in the 1870s.