The Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 severely capped the number of admittable migrants by nationality. Canadian migrants, or any migrants who resided in Canada for five consecutive years, were unrestricted by the quota and could freely migrate to the U.S. Using transcribed ship records from ...
This paper uses the introduction of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 as a natural experiment to provide much-needed evidence on whether immigrants’ assimilation is affected by restrictive immigration policies. In so doing, my work also provides additional context on...
In contrast, "immigrant advocacy" constitutes organized efforts to humanize the image of immigrants and act as a sympathetic intermediary between immigrants and the society at large. It is different from immigration advocacy, which argues in favor of greater immigration per se. Although the two may...