Migration and business cycles

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Identifikator:: 1736236210

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-111544

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Jerome, Harry

Title:: Migration and business cycles

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: National Bureau of Economic Research

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 256 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. Significant features of migration

Collection:: Economics Books

&) MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES Bureau of Statistics include many who were counted by the Bureau of Immigration as temporary or nonimmigrant arrivals. Terminology. At no time has there been a complete record of all persons en- tering or leaving the territory of the United States. Particularly on the land boundaries, an attempt at a complete count would be difficult of realization. Furthermore, even at the present time, certain classes of arrivals and departures are treated as ‘“non- statistical” and do not enter into the published migration statistics. For example, ‘‘one year residents of Canada, Newfoundland or Mexico, who come for a stay of less than six months; and aliens who habitually cross and recross the land boundaries of the United States’: are treated as ‘‘non-statistical aliens” and not recorded. Persons passing over our borders, aside from those who arrive or depart clandestinely, and those who, for reasons just cited, are treated as non-statistical, are classified as citizens or aliens. For recent years, the Bureau of Immigration has published statistics of the number of citizens departing to take up permanent residence abroad. Inasmuch as naturalized citizens are included, a minute appraisal of the movement of the foreign-born elements in our population would include the departing citizens. For example, after the Great War, thousands of naturalized Poles, and many of Polish descent born in this country, emigrated to share in the fortunes of the newly reorganized Poland. In this study, however, attention is concentrated chiefly upon the movement of aliens, and particularly, though not exclusively, upon the coming and going of those officially listed as immigrant or emigrant aliens, as con- trasted with nonimmigrant and nonemigrant aliens.+ In the terminology used by the Bureau of Immigration, an im- migrant alien is a non-resident of this country who enters with the declared intention of establishing a permanent residence, while a nonimmigrant alien is an alien resident of the United States re- turning from a temporary visit abroad or a non-resident entering for a stay of less than a year. Likewise, an alien emigrant is an alien resident of the United States leaving for a relatively permanent sojourn abroad; and an alien nonemigrant is either an alien who originally entered as a This interpretation of the discrepancy was suggested by the Acting Commissioner- General of the U. S. Bureau of Immigration, in a letter to the writer, dated May 9, 1924. 3U. S. Bureau of Immigration, General Order No. 13, July 24, 1923, p. 16. 4See Chapter VII for comparison of immigrants and nonimmigrants. 0

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