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 Frances H. Kinnicutt, immigration restriction league, and allied patriotic society, New York City

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 157 of the first census (1790), published by the Census Bureau in the Jocument entitled “A Century of Population Growth,” were sub- ject to substantial correction in one respect. It was claimed that in relying upon the Christian and surnames contained in the cen- sus of 1790 to determine the proportion of people of English, Scotch, [rish, or German descent, a certain allowance should be made for the Anglicization of some of the names which were not in fact English, The revised national-origins report (S. Doc. 65) by the com- mittee of experts, shows how this problem was dealt with. Says the report (p. 4): It was to be expected that whatever error there might be in this classifi- sation would be in the direct.on of an overstatement of the English element in the population, because that was the dominant element in most parts of the United States at that period, and for that reason the name changes would paturally be in the direction of the Anglicization of names of non-lnglish origin. Moreover, there would be a natural and justifiable tendency on the part of the class.fiers to assign to the dominant element in the population 111 names not clearly of other origin. “The investigations carried on by the research experts employed by the American Council of Learned Societies bore out this expectation, indicating that the English element as given in the Century of Population Growth was too large; and on the basis of data which they submitted and of information derived from other sources your committee came to the conclusion that the English element as there given should be reduced by a little over 10 per cent and the amount of the reduction distributed among the other nationalities represented in the population of the United States in 1790. This revision affects only that portion of the several quotas which is derived from the 1790 popula- tion, which we termed ‘the original native stock.” It does not affect that portion which is derived from immigrant stock coming into this country after 1760." It is quite apparent from this that the experts, after much con- scientious work and corroboration of their work by expert assist- ance of the Council of Learned Societies, gave liberal recognition of the claim above referred to. This resulted in the only changes of any importance made in the revision report of the national origins quota board as compared with the original report, namely, changes affecting the quotas of Great Britain and Ireland and to a less extent Germany, as shown in the following table: National- origins quotas SO iain and North Tn Jreat Britain and North Ireland... o.oo... IIIT rish Free State. A i Revised fiotirae %, 908 65, 804 | 17 497 Prelim- inary report 23,428 73,039 13. R62 Considerable testimony has been offered during the present hear- ‘ngs to show that the final national-origins quota awarded to Ger- many is fair and corresponds very closely with the claims as to the number of persons of German origin in the United States by author- ities having a high standing with the German element in the United States. But there is also evidence, not alluded to during these hearings, that the national-origins quota allotted to the Irish Free I5RR5— 929.11

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