Historical aspects of the immigration problem; select documents, by Edith Abbott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The University of Chicago social service seriesPublication details: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press [c1926]Description: xx, 881 p. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.73
LOC classification:
  • JV6455 .A68
Contents:
I. Causes of emigration: emigration conditions in the United Kingdom and northern Europe : 1. Recruiting German immigrants 1749-50 -- 2. Stimulating emigration in London in the eighteenth century -- 3. What America offered to the poor of Europe -- 4. A letter from America 1796 -- 5. An attempt to discourage emigration 1796 -- 6. Letter from Welsh immigrants in Pennsylvania 1800 -- 7. French immigrants in the wilderness -- 8. Emigration from England in 1816 -- 9. Letters from emigrants -- 10. Opportunities of a farmer in Illinois -- 11. Words of caution to immigrants -- 12. Emigration conditions in Germany and Switzerland -- 13. Emigration for political reasons -- 14. Attractions of pioneer life in Missouri -- 15. Germans ask to come as "redemptioners" 1827 -- 16. Emigration conditions in certain English counties -- 17. Emigration proposed for scotch weavers -- 18. Emigration conditions in Ireland 1824-26 -- 19. Some newspaper comments on emigration -- 20. Letters from pauper immigrants -- 21. Emigration form the United Kingdom -- 22. Emigration and Irish destitution 1836-37 -- 23. Methods of stimulating emigration 1837 -- 24. Overpopulation and emigration in the United Kingdom -- 25. General causes of German emigration -- 26. Why the United States attracts emigrants -- 27. State aid for Irish emigration condemned -- 28. Colonization preferred to emigration -- 29. The Irish famine exodus of 1847 -- 30. The distressed condition of Ireland -- 31. Irish emigration assisted by Irish landlords -- 32. The continuing emigration from the United Kingdom -- 33. Stimulation of emigration by American states : Report of the Wisconsin commissioner of emigration ; Report of the Wisconsin committee on immigration -- 34. The work of A German emigration society -- 35. What does North America offer to the German emigrant? -- 36. Advice to immigrants -- 37. Difficulty of regulating emigration -- 38. Causes of European emigration -- 39. Causes of Swiss emigration -- 40. Emigration of capital and labor -- 41. A later view of emigration from the United Kingdom -- 42. A Swedish immigrant in his old home -- 43. Efforts to attract immigrants to a western state -- 44. Emigration as a remedy for economic distress -- 45. Effect of "hard times" on emigration -- 46. Emigration from Württemberg 1870-80 -- 47. Review of German emigration. II. Economic aspects of the immigration problem : 1. Redemptioners and indentured servants : Comments of a Swedish traveler ; Comments of an English traveler ; Contracts of immigrant "redemptioners" ; Public opinion and the redemptioners -- 2. Opportunities in England and America compared -- 3. British opinion of the dangers of emigration -- 4. Immigration following the peace of 1815 -- 5. How an emigrant may succeed in the United States -- 6. English pioneers in Illinois -- 7. Advice to emigrants -- 8. An Englishman in the western country -- 9. Letters of English paupers -- 10. Emigration of skilled workmen -- 11. Economic opportunities of the United States and Canada -- 12. "Reflections on the subject of emigration" -- 13. Economic advantages of emigration to the mother country -- 14. Opportunities for immigrants in agriculture -- 15. Advice to German emigrants -- 16. Voluntary and state-aided emigration discussed -- 17. Proposals for a Canadian agent in New York -- 18. Employment for newly arrived immigrants -- 19. Influence of emigration upon labor and prices in England -- 20. Immigration and wages -- 21. Immigration harmful to the American laborer -- 22. An Irish view of the immigrant's opportunities -- 23. Advice to emigrants -- 24. Advice to Germans contemplating emigration -- 25. The educated German in America -- 26. Emigration and population statistics -- 27. Emigration in relation to overpopulation in Germany -- 28. Occupations of immigrants viewed unfavorably -- 29. Immigration and labor: a know nothing-view -- 30. Immigrants in New York City -- 31. Distribution of immigrants -- 32. The foreign element in Massachusetts -- 33. Report on the encouragement of immigration -- 34. Common labor in New York -- 35. Scarcity of skilled labor in New York -- 36. Immigration and the labor in the United States -- 37. Immigration and the labor market -- 38. The effects of continuous emigration upon Ireland -- 39. Occupations of immigrants -- 40. Capital value of immigration -- 41. An official estimate of the value of an immigrant -- 42. Opportunities for emigrants 1870 -- 43. The rationale of emigration -- 44. Effect of the industrial development of Germany on emigration -- 45. The effects of emigration in Europe and America -- 46. Immigration and American prosperity -- III. Early problems of assimilation : 1. Colonial misgivings -- 2. What is an American? -- 3. The Pennsylvania Germans -- 4. Thoughts on the policy of encouraging migration -- 5. The population of New York 1812 -- 6. The "anglicizing" of the Germans in America -- 7. A German political exile on the problem of assimilation -- 8. Difficulties of assimilation -- 9. A "Native American" view -- 10. A German traveler's impressions -- 11. Difficulties of adjustment -- 12. A plea for the Irish immigrant -- 13. Irish attitude to know-nothingism -- 14. The disbanding of foreign militia companies -- 15. "The foreign vote" a reply to the know-nothings -- 16. Irish nationalism in the United States -- 17. Loyalty of immigrants to the home country -- 18. A German criticism of German-Americans -- 19. The German emigrant in America -- 20. The Germans in Texas -- 21. Immigrant organizations in politics -- 22. Difficulties of the Irish in the New Anglo-American world -- 23. Isolation of the Irish in America -- 24. The foreign element in American society -- 25. The immigrant's obligations in the "old country" -- 26. The importance of the German language and the German press 1869 -- 27. The Irish-American -- 28. Position of the Irish in America: an English view -- IV. Pauperism and crime and other domestic immigration problems : 1. An attempted exclusion of convicts in the colonial period : Virginia ; Maryland ; Pennsylvania -- 2. Pauper and convict immigration: a colonial statute -- 3. Demand for an immigrant hospital 1741 -- 4. Sick Germans in Philadelphia 1754 -- 5. Charitable schools for immigrants -- 6. A society for assisting emigrants -- 7. Destitution among immigrants in New York -- 8. Importation of paupers -- 9. A Baltimore protest against foreign pauperism -- 10. Irish laborers charged with violence -- 11. The problem of foreign pauperism -- 12. Naturalizing by the job -- 13. Destitution among immigrants -- 14. A demand for control of foreign pauperism in Massachusetts -- 15. Cholera in the Boston slums 1849 -- 16. Recommendations of Massachusetts sanitary commission -- 17. Immigration and crime -- 18. Foreign pauperism -- 19. Destitute foreigners at the New York dispensary -- 20. Insanity in Massachusetts among the native and foreign-born -- 21. Immigration and "juvenile vacancy" -- 22. Immigrant pauperism vied tolerantly -- 23. Election riots -- 24. The "know-nothing" demand for a change in naturalization -- 25. The immigrant and the tenement house problem -- 26. A German prisoners' aid Society -- 27. Protest against the immigration of foreigner criminals -- 28. Misuse of naturalization privileges -- 29. The government of our great cities -- 30. Immigration, indigence, and crime in New York -- 31. Foreign convicts in New York -- 32. Mortality of immigrants -- 33. The "Molly Maguires" -- 34. Alien paupers in New York -- 35. Further complaints of the burden of alien pauperism 1880 -- 36. Evils indecent to immigration. V. Public opinion and the immigrant : 1. Complaints of the Pennsylvania colonial assembly -- 2. A statement's calculations -- 3. Immigration and the needs of the new nation -- 4. A charity sermon for poor emigrants -- 5. Congressional opinion 1797 -- 6. Prejudice against aliens -- 7. Hints to immigrants -- 8. Congress petitioned by Irish immigrants -- 9. Too many immigrants -- 10. The spirit of our government as it relates to foreigners -- 11. Immigrants welcomed in western Pennsylvania -- 12. Immigrants the dupes of demagogues -- 13. Dangers of immigration suggested -- 14. A sympathetic view of the Irish immigrant -- 15. A congressman's view of naturalization -- 16. The "Native American" declaration principles -- 17. An American criticism of "Native Americans" -- 18. The "Native American" in congress -- 19. Anxiety about immigration: a moderate view -- 20. A liberal view of the alien and American life -- 21. Opinion in the south -- 22. A western forecast of the results of emigration -- 23. The immigrant and public lands 1852 -- 24. A sympathetic view of immigration -- 25. The position of the "American party" -- 26. America for Americans -- 27. Who are the Americans? -- 28. "Know-nothingisms" contrary to American tradition -- 29. National hospitality -- 30. Immigrants welcomed -- 31. The humbug of know-nothings -- 32. A democratic reply to the know-nothings -- 33. A German view of the know-nothing movement -- 34. An Irish view of "know-nothingism" -- 35. European immigration- the Grecian horse of the American republic -- 36. Conclusions of a federal investigating committee 1856 -- 37. Immigrants in New York City -- 38. Federal encouragement of immigration -- 39. Free trade in men -- 40. A businessman's views of "our duties to immigrants" 1875 -- 41. Views of state charitable officials -- 42. Importance of the increase in immigration -- 43. Current opinion 1882-83 -- 44. Federal control recommended.
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I. Causes of emigration: emigration conditions in the United Kingdom and northern Europe : 1. Recruiting German immigrants 1749-50 -- 2. Stimulating emigration in London in the eighteenth century -- 3. What America offered to the poor of Europe -- 4. A letter from America 1796 -- 5. An attempt to discourage emigration 1796 -- 6. Letter from Welsh immigrants in Pennsylvania 1800 -- 7. French immigrants in the wilderness -- 8. Emigration from England in 1816 -- 9. Letters from emigrants -- 10. Opportunities of a farmer in Illinois -- 11. Words of caution to immigrants -- 12. Emigration conditions in Germany and Switzerland -- 13. Emigration for political reasons -- 14. Attractions of pioneer life in Missouri -- 15. Germans ask to come as "redemptioners" 1827 -- 16. Emigration conditions in certain English counties -- 17. Emigration proposed for scotch weavers -- 18. Emigration conditions in Ireland 1824-26 -- 19. Some newspaper comments on emigration -- 20. Letters from pauper immigrants -- 21. Emigration form the United Kingdom -- 22. Emigration and Irish destitution 1836-37 -- 23. Methods of stimulating emigration 1837 -- 24. Overpopulation and emigration in the United Kingdom -- 25. General causes of German emigration -- 26. Why the United States attracts emigrants -- 27. State aid for Irish emigration condemned -- 28. Colonization preferred to emigration -- 29. The Irish famine exodus of 1847 -- 30. The distressed condition of Ireland -- 31. Irish emigration assisted by Irish landlords -- 32. The continuing emigration from the United Kingdom -- 33. Stimulation of emigration by American states : Report of the Wisconsin commissioner of emigration ; Report of the Wisconsin committee on immigration -- 34. The work of A German emigration society -- 35. What does North America offer to the German emigrant? -- 36. Advice to immigrants -- 37. Difficulty of regulating emigration -- 38. Causes of European emigration -- 39. Causes of Swiss emigration -- 40. Emigration of capital and labor -- 41. A later view of emigration from the United Kingdom -- 42. A Swedish immigrant in his old home -- 43. Efforts to attract immigrants to a western state -- 44. Emigration as a remedy for economic distress -- 45. Effect of "hard times" on emigration -- 46. Emigration from Württemberg 1870-80 -- 47. Review of German emigration. II. Economic aspects of the immigration problem : 1. Redemptioners and indentured servants : Comments of a Swedish traveler ; Comments of an English traveler ; Contracts of immigrant "redemptioners" ; Public opinion and the redemptioners -- 2. Opportunities in England and America compared -- 3. British opinion of the dangers of emigration -- 4. Immigration following the peace of 1815 -- 5. How an emigrant may succeed in the United States -- 6. English pioneers in Illinois -- 7. Advice to emigrants -- 8. An Englishman in the western country -- 9. Letters of English paupers -- 10. Emigration of skilled workmen -- 11. Economic opportunities of the United States and Canada -- 12. "Reflections on the subject of emigration" -- 13. Economic advantages of emigration to the mother country -- 14. Opportunities for immigrants in agriculture -- 15. Advice to German emigrants -- 16. Voluntary and state-aided emigration discussed -- 17. Proposals for a Canadian agent in New York -- 18. Employment for newly arrived immigrants -- 19. Influence of emigration upon labor and prices in England -- 20. Immigration and wages -- 21. Immigration harmful to the American laborer -- 22. An Irish view of the immigrant's opportunities -- 23. Advice to emigrants -- 24. Advice to Germans contemplating emigration -- 25. The educated German in America -- 26. Emigration and population statistics -- 27. Emigration in relation to overpopulation in Germany -- 28. Occupations of immigrants viewed unfavorably -- 29. Immigration and labor: a know nothing-view -- 30. Immigrants in New York City -- 31. Distribution of immigrants -- 32. The foreign element in Massachusetts -- 33. Report on the encouragement of immigration -- 34. Common labor in New York -- 35. Scarcity of skilled labor in New York -- 36. Immigration and the labor in the United States -- 37. Immigration and the labor market -- 38. The effects of continuous emigration upon Ireland -- 39. Occupations of immigrants -- 40. Capital value of immigration -- 41. An official estimate of the value of an immigrant -- 42. Opportunities for emigrants 1870 -- 43. The rationale of emigration -- 44. Effect of the industrial development of Germany on emigration -- 45. The effects of emigration in Europe and America -- 46. Immigration and American prosperity -- III. Early problems of assimilation : 1. Colonial misgivings -- 2. What is an American? -- 3. The Pennsylvania Germans -- 4. Thoughts on the policy of encouraging migration -- 5. The population of New York 1812 -- 6. The "anglicizing" of the Germans in America -- 7. A German political exile on the problem of assimilation -- 8. Difficulties of assimilation -- 9. A "Native American" view -- 10. A German traveler's impressions -- 11. Difficulties of adjustment -- 12. A plea for the Irish immigrant -- 13. Irish attitude to know-nothingism -- 14. The disbanding of foreign militia companies -- 15. "The foreign vote" a reply to the know-nothings -- 16. Irish nationalism in the United States -- 17. Loyalty of immigrants to the home country -- 18. A German criticism of German-Americans -- 19. The German emigrant in America -- 20. The Germans in Texas -- 21. Immigrant organizations in politics -- 22. Difficulties of the Irish in the New Anglo-American world -- 23. Isolation of the Irish in America -- 24. The foreign element in American society -- 25. The immigrant's obligations in the "old country" -- 26. The importance of the German language and the German press 1869 -- 27. The Irish-American -- 28. Position of the Irish in America: an English view -- IV. Pauperism and crime and other domestic immigration problems : 1. An attempted exclusion of convicts in the colonial period : Virginia ; Maryland ; Pennsylvania -- 2. Pauper and convict immigration: a colonial statute -- 3. Demand for an immigrant hospital 1741 -- 4. Sick Germans in Philadelphia 1754 -- 5. Charitable schools for immigrants -- 6. A society for assisting emigrants -- 7. Destitution among immigrants in New York -- 8. Importation of paupers -- 9. A Baltimore protest against foreign pauperism -- 10. Irish laborers charged with violence -- 11. The problem of foreign pauperism -- 12. Naturalizing by the job -- 13. Destitution among immigrants -- 14. A demand for control of foreign pauperism in Massachusetts -- 15. Cholera in the Boston slums 1849 -- 16. Recommendations of Massachusetts sanitary commission -- 17. Immigration and crime -- 18. Foreign pauperism -- 19. Destitute foreigners at the New York dispensary -- 20. Insanity in Massachusetts among the native and foreign-born -- 21. Immigration and "juvenile vacancy" -- 22. Immigrant pauperism vied tolerantly -- 23. Election riots -- 24. The "know-nothing" demand for a change in naturalization -- 25. The immigrant and the tenement house problem -- 26. A German prisoners' aid Society -- 27. Protest against the immigration of foreigner criminals -- 28. Misuse of naturalization privileges -- 29. The government of our great cities -- 30. Immigration, indigence, and crime in New York -- 31. Foreign convicts in New York -- 32. Mortality of immigrants -- 33. The "Molly Maguires" -- 34. Alien paupers in New York -- 35. Further complaints of the burden of alien pauperism 1880 -- 36. Evils indecent to immigration. V. Public opinion and the immigrant : 1. Complaints of the Pennsylvania colonial assembly -- 2. A statement's calculations -- 3. Immigration and the needs of the new nation -- 4. A charity sermon for poor emigrants -- 5. Congressional opinion 1797 -- 6. Prejudice against aliens -- 7. Hints to immigrants -- 8. Congress petitioned by Irish immigrants -- 9. Too many immigrants -- 10. The spirit of our government as it relates to foreigners -- 11. Immigrants welcomed in western Pennsylvania -- 12. Immigrants the dupes of demagogues -- 13. Dangers of immigration suggested -- 14. A sympathetic view of the Irish immigrant -- 15. A congressman's view of naturalization -- 16. The "Native American" declaration principles -- 17. An American criticism of "Native Americans" -- 18. The "Native American" in congress -- 19. Anxiety about immigration: a moderate view -- 20. A liberal view of the alien and American life -- 21. Opinion in the south -- 22. A western forecast of the results of emigration -- 23. The immigrant and public lands 1852 -- 24. A sympathetic view of immigration -- 25. The position of the "American party" -- 26. America for Americans -- 27. Who are the Americans? -- 28. "Know-nothingisms" contrary to American tradition -- 29. National hospitality -- 30. Immigrants welcomed -- 31. The humbug of know-nothings -- 32. A democratic reply to the know-nothings -- 33. A German view of the know-nothing movement -- 34. An Irish view of "know-nothingism" -- 35. European immigration- the Grecian horse of the American republic -- 36. Conclusions of a federal investigating committee 1856 -- 37. Immigrants in New York City -- 38. Federal encouragement of immigration -- 39. Free trade in men -- 40. A businessman's views of "our duties to immigrants" 1875 -- 41. Views of state charitable officials -- 42. Importance of the increase in immigration -- 43. Current opinion 1882-83 -- 44. Federal control recommended.