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- The Antiracist Origin of the Quota System. Ly, Son-Thierry; Weil, Patrick // Social Research;Spring2010, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p45
The article considers the history of the United States' immigration quota system between 1880 and 1930. Some of the legislation considered includes three Asiatic exclusion laws: the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Law, the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement, and the 1917 Asiatic Barred Zone; as well as the 1921...
- Illegal Immigration -- A National Challenge. Ashby, Barry // Industrial Heating;Dec2008, Vol. 75 Issue 12, p14
In his article, the author criticizes the attempts to accord amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. and calls it a flagrant attempt to curry favor among a growing voter bloc. He says that with the new Congress in saddle, it is near certain that this issue will reappear, and every effort will be...
- The Swedish American Line in an exhibition in Karlstad. // Swedish American Genealogist;Mar2011, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p6
The article discusses an exhibition at the Sweden America Center concerning the ship company the Swedish American Line (SAL), which will be on display through the end of 2011.
- THE UNWELCOME MAT. ROBINSON, RANDALL // Ebony;Aug2010, Vol. 65 Issue 10, p68
The author presents his views on U.S. immigration law, arguing that it has been systematically biased in favor of Western Europeans. He outlines some of the main methods of entering the U.S. legally, contrasts the treatment of Haitian and Cuban political refugees during the 1990s, and presents...
- Chinese Exclusion Act. // Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882;2009, p1
Presents the text of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Regulations regarding the arrival of Chinese laborers into the United States; Other provisions.
- THE ROAD TO "DESOLATION FERRY" THE STORY OF THE POTTERS' EMIGRATION SOCIETY. Bentley, Roger // Wisconsin Magazine of History;Autumn2010, Vol. 94 Issue 1, p2
The article discusses the Potters' Emigration Society, an organization of English immigrants who sponsored settlement schemes in Columbia County, Wisconsin in the 1840s and 1850s. It examines the leadership of Welsh gilder William Evans, colony administrator Thomas Twigg, and Twigg's deputy...
- A Brief Comment on Nancy Green's Essay. Goldhammer, Arthur // French Politics, Culture & Society;Aug2008, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p13
The article provides comments on the article published in the same issue "Tocqueville, Comparative History, and Immigration in Two Democracies," by Nancy L. Green. The author goes back over French historian and writer Alexis de Tocqueville and his views on internal migrations of Americans in the...
- Tocqueville, Comparative History, and Immigration in Two Democracies. Green, Nancy L. // French Politics, Culture & Society;Aug2008, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p1
Although mass migration to the United States and to France did not occur until after Tocqueville's visit to America, by rereading Tocqueville's classic De la d�mocratie en Am�rique through the lens of immigration history, we can question some of the common assumptions about Franco-American...
- Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s. Garza, Juanita // Journal of Southern History;Nov2007, Vol. 73 Issue 4, p933
Reviews the book "Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s," by Luis G. G�mez, edited by Guadalupe Valdez, Jr. and Thomas H. Kreneck.
