He examines in detail the responses of native-born writers and politicians to immigration, pointing out both the similarities and the significant differences between the situations in Argentina and Chile. As attitudes toward immigration became increasingly nationalistic, the European was no longer pictured...
They would not be eligible to vote or to receive government benefits or to bring family members into the country. [1] Alternatives to citizenship and legalization include the deportation of and civil proceedings against individual or groups of undocumented immigrants. Because being in the U.S. ...
After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later ...
I believe it should be no harder to get a work permit than to order basic cable, and we should let the price of a permit mediate supply and demand (a ‘dirty float’ in an otherwise liberalized immigration market). But as you know, I am against social support for such persons. Support...
First of all, Canadian government amended the New Immigration Act to help immigrants acquire Canadian cultures in the Cold War period. For example, the government added “the promotion of Canada’s demographics, economic, social and culture goals” into the New Immigration Act(www.thecanadianencycl...
There was a depression in the 1890s, and because of that immigration rose from 3.5 million to 9 million. Immigrants kept coming from Northern and Western Europe, but we started receiving immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, including Latin America and Canada. Immigration eventually decreased...
Immigration Act, 1924: 2% total # from country in US based on 1890 census fewer S+E 1907: 685,000+ from S+E 1924 and on: approx. 20,000/year Did not affect Canada or Mexico greater % immigration (esp. 1910 Mexican Revolution) ...
1865-1892 After the Civil War, Ellis Island stands vacant, until the government decides to replace the New York immigration station at Castle Garden, which closes in 1890. Control of immigration is turned over to the federal government, and $75,000 is appropriated for construction of the first...
C.I.44 form records where in Canada an ancestor had settled, what work they were doing and their family structure. Often they were using an English or Anglicized name (alias) to fit into Canadian society; their photograph shows how they were grooming and dressing themselves in the Western ...
As the passage from Britain to the Canadian Maritimes was substantially cheaper than that to the United States, many Irish immigrants came first to Canada, landing at Quebec, Montreal, or Halifax, and then sailed or even walked down into America. After about 1840, however, most immigrants saile...