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Inventing the immigration problem : the Dillingham commission and its legacy : General (US: Trade)

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.
Print Book, English, 2018
Harvard University Press, [Boston], 2018
1 volume
9780674976443, 0674976444
1056163816