Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy

ISBN-13: 9780674976443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Katherine Benton-Cohen

Opis

The Dillingham Commission created by Congress in 1907 to collect data on a perceived immigration problem remains the largest U.S. immigration study ever conducted. Katherine Benton-Cohen shows that its Progressive formulation and recommendations endure in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement a century later.