Vom Wirtschaftsgeist in Amerika

Migration and business cycles

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Identifikator:: 1748646508

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-122686

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Rühl, Alfred http://d-nb.info/gnd/118750267

Title:: Vom Wirtschaftsgeist in Amerika

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Quelle & Meyer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: IX, 122 S

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. Der neue Wirtschaftsgeist

Collection:: Economics Books

SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF MIGRATION 41 Country of Origin—the “Old” and “New” Immigration. So much of the discussion of immigration in recent years has revolved around the relative merits of the so-called “old” and ‘“‘new”’ elements in immigration that it seems desirable to indicate their relative contributions to the immigrant stream. The “old” im- migration came from northern and western Europe; the “new” comes from eastern and southern Europe and Turkey in Asia. An examination of Table 4 and Chart 4 reveals that prior to 1896, CHART 4 THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF IMMIGRATION: in, 5 sol 04 ai (oh gi Te = : : ot ‘of . i OTHER HamERATIN | i ¥ Years Ending June 30 sNumerical data in Table 4. the majority of immigrants were of the “old” strain. In the year ending June 30, 1896, the “new’’ immigration rose to 57 per cent of the total and since that date, until the Great War, held a clear preponderance over the immigration from northern and western Europe. During the conduct of hostilities a large proportion of the immigrants came from Canada and Mexico, and in more recent years, the quota acts have been a restraining influence upon Euro- pean immigration, particularly from the countries furnishing the “new” immigration. Leading Immigrant Races or Peoples. Recognizing that a German immigrant does not always come from Germany or an Italian from Italy, and that it may be desirable The term “race” is used throughout this volume, not necessarily to designate a group defined according to strict ethnological principles, but to refer to one of the some 5

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