The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The migration of populations

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88 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE absorb the derelict elements of other countries’ peoples, if their own progress is to be the criterion of success in the problem of peopling the earth. There is yet another hindrance to migration, to which attention must perforce be given in the Future. Immigrants may be divided into two classes, viz.: (a) those who really combine with the people who receive them, and (5) those who endeavour to maintain a quasi-separate social and political existence. With the former, the only questions for consideration are those relating to what may be called personal qualities. With the latter, the possession of those personal elements may have to be regarded as quite subordinate to others. For example, certain classes of immigrants have shown a tendency to segregate themselves, and to maintain their own native tongue in order to ensure a differentiation from the people of the country into which they enter. Both prior to and upon the outbreak of war they have acted, not in the interests of the country of their adoption, but as hostile and dangerous groups therein. They have been known even to carry on a system of espionage in the interests of a foreign power. Here it may be noted also that it is an open declara- tion of one country that it will do all in its power to spread its political doctrines throughout the world, with a view to changing the existing order of civilisa- tion into one—their own recent forced scheme—which so far has proved a ghastly failure, and has cost an untold number of lives, unspeakable misery, and wide- spread economic ruin. The whole situation may be summed up by saying that all immigration which is likely to be characterised by ulterior actions, subversive of the social regime and political development of the recipient people, ought to be met with hostility and prevented. Thus the :limination of such characters in future migration is

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