TITLE

A tale of ten cities

PUB. DATE

November 1995

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;11/27/95, Vol. 22 Issue 50, p32

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses measures being considered in the US Congress to restrict immigration. Demographer Leon Bouvier of Tulane University comparing five cities with high levels of immigration to five cities with low levels; Social pathology being considerably worse in high immmigration cities; Critics of Bouvier's methodology.

ACCESSION #

9512227534

Tags: UNITED States -- Emigration & immigration;  BOUVIER, Leon;  EXAMINATIONS

 

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