National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Samuel W. Boggs, geographer, Department of State

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW Senator Reep. You are also secretary of the quota board, are you not? Mr. Bogas. Yes, sir. Senator Rep. That is the board created by the immigration law for the ascertainment of these quotas? Mr. Boges. Yes, sir; the committee of six. Senator Rerp. Have you been secretary of that board constantly since its organization ? Mr. Boas. Since its active work was begun on the national-origins quotas about three years ago. Senator Reep. Mr. Boggs, do you consider the national-origins methods and the 1890 foreign-born method so that you are able to make a comparison between the two of them from the standpoint of accuracy? Mr. Boges. I would not want to say anything that would discredit the present quota system in itself. Buf I have had to study the present quotas in order to gather such information as they had utilized, and to learn anything I could from their processes, in order to get a good start on the work of determining the national-origin uotas. 4 The national-origins quotas have, as we have used them, four sepa- rate factors: First, the immigration, that is, the foreign-born, re- ported in the 1920 census in the terms of postwar geography; sec- ond, the children of foreign-born who are reported interms of pre- war geography; that is, the countries from which their immigrant parents came; and then, for statistical convenience and practical necessity, as I think Doctor Hill has previously explained, we have utilized figures concerning, third, the colonial stock, and fourth, the oe stock other than the foreign born and the children of oreign born. So that we have four streams. The immigrants, and children of foreign-born immigrants—— Senator Corer.axp. Pardon me just a moment. Those four streams represent the colonial stock and the immigrants? Mr. Boees. The postcolonial stock, which we have also called the “immigrant stock,” comprises what we call the grandchildren and later generations of postcolonial stock, the children of foreign born, and the foreign born themselves. That is simply for statistical con- venience. Senator Remp. Take the first of those streams, the foreign born, is there any element of uncertainty in that? Mr. Boges. There is practically none, because it is reported in terms of post-war geography and it is in itself, of course, much more usable than are the 1890 foreign-born statistics in determining the present quotas, because it is in terms of post-war geography, whereas the 1890 foreign-born data have to have a good manv adjustments made because of the geographic changes. The Cmairman. The second of the sources that you used, how is it as to accuracy? Mr. Bocas. The children of the foreign-born are reported, as I say, in terms of pre-war geography, as of necessity, because they could not tell the countries, in terms of post-war geography, from which their parents came; many would not know of the geographical changes in Europe. But we have to use with that statistical table

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