In her book The Great School Wars Ravitch asserted that low immigration levels during the 1920s to early 1960s period played a large role in producing a golden age of education in New York and probably in the United States. The research undertaken for this article does confirm some of ...
After Congress passed legislation limiting immigration during the 1920s, however, the numbers declined. Numbers for the 1930s were particularly low. After World War II numbers again increased; but the 1960s saw emigration from Ireland falling dramatically as a result of new quota laws restricting ...
People from all over the world have dared to dream of a better future for themselves and for their children. Others were forced out of their homelands in order to escape atrocities (暴政,暴行). The two world wars during this century forced large numbers of people to seek refuge in a ...
First came the Chinese immigration (or, rather, it was already there, having come there slowly and insidiously during the previous years). View in context But in the case of an island, or of a country partly surrounded by barriers, into which new and better adapted forms could not freely ...
Based on a comparative study of selected guides produced for Italians emigrating to the Americas during mass migration between the 1880s and the 1920s, this paper evaluates some linguistic aspects of texts for Italians emigrating to Argentina. The numerous guides compiled by Giuliano Corniani, ...
Immigration and trade: Evidence from the 1920s Quota Acts During the 1920s, the US implemented a series of migration restrictions, effectively ending mass migration from Europe. We exploit this shock to migration ... T Lebesmuehlbacher,A Palmer 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 Immigration, Trade and Pr...
Built in 1892, the center handled some 12 million European immigrants, herding thousands of them a day through the barn-like structure during the peak years for screening. Government inspectors asked a list of twenty-nine probing questions, such as: Have you money, relatives or a job in the...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Respectively, these parts discuss immigration policies during the 1920 s and the manner that nationality and race influenced them; the reliance on and ... ND Genova - 《American Ethnologist》 被引量: 1090发表: 2005年 Being ...
In the post-World War IIperiod, immigration was largely the result of therefugeemovement following thatwarand, during the 1950s and ’60s, the end ofcolonizationacrossAsiaandAfrica. Immigration from these areas to former imperial centres, such as theUnited KingdomandFrance, increased. In the Uni...
During theHarding administration, a stop-gapimmigration measurewas passed by Congress in 1921 for the purpose of slowing the flood of immigrants entering the United States. A more thorough law, known as the National Origins Act, was signed byPresident Coolidgein May 1924. It provided for the fo...