Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission: With Conclusions and ... - United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) - Google grāmatas

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Abstract of the report on the children of immigrants in schools..

Scope and method...

Public-school pupils-The general investigation

Public-school pupils-The intensive investigation

Comparison of public and parochial school summaries.

Public-school teachers in the elementary grades and kindergartens

Parochial-school pupils-The general investigation....

Statistical completeness of the data for pupils in public and parochial

Students in higher educational institutions..

Abstract of the report on immigrants as charity seekers

Age of persons involved in cases assisted..

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Conjugal condition of persons involved in cases assisted.

General occupation of persons under 16 years of age..

Years in the United States..

Digest of the report on Honolulu, Hawaii.

Description of general tables...

Abstract of the report on immigration and crime.

Census data on volume of crime_

Character and scope of the investigation..

Method of analysis.....

General summary of results.

Immigrants and natives..

The second generation..

Races and nationalities

New York court of general sessions, Oct. 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909.

County and supreme courts, New York State, 1907-8..

The city of Chicago: Police arrests, 1905 to 1908..

Massachusetts penal institutions: Commitments during the year ending

Alien prisoners in the United States in 1908.

The entry of foreign criminals into the United States..

Immigration and insanity....

Insane persons deported after landing

Insane and feeble-minded aliens in the United States.

Foreign-born insane in institutions, 1908...

The ratio of insanity among the native-born and among the foreign-born.

The native-born of foreign father compared with the native-born of native

The alien insane, classified by nationality or race..

The tendency to insanity among the immigrants, by nationality or race..

Possible causes of high ratios of insanity among the foreign-born....

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Abstract of the report on immigrant homes and aid societies

Discharge of immigrants to immigrant homes and aid societies..

Scope and methods of investigation..

Missionaries and representatives..

Immigrant homes..

Discharge of immigrant women and girls by immigrant homes and aid

Extent of violations of the law

Abstract of the report on importation and harboring of women for immoral

Methods of investigation....

The reasons for the business

Methods of importation.

Marriage to American citizens.

Difficulties of detection..

System of exploitation.

The control of the girl.

The women in the houses.

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Origin of the system in the United States and application of the term..

Extent of system in the United States and races to which it is at present

Living conditions and environment of Greek aliens laboring under the

Effect of system on aliens, mentally, morally, and physically..

History of the padrone system in the United States in connection with

shoe-shining establishments..

Effect of system in certain industries

The Greek padrone system in the United States-Continued.

Causes in Greece and in this country which render the aliens willing to

submit to the system

Methods adopted in Greece to induce migration of new material for labor

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Remittances abroad..

Rate of exchange..

Relation with banking houses..

Unsoundness of the system...

Failures and defalcations...

State laws on the subject..

Difficulties of legislation..

General opinions and recommendations.

Definition of peonage..

Scope and plan of investigation..

No punishment for simple slavery

Involuntary servitude in the West..

No prosecutions in the West...

Peonage in New England..

Abstract of the report on fecundity of immigrant women.

Comparative summary-Rhode Island, Ohio, and Minnesota..

Abstract of the report on changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants. 501 556

General results of the investigation.......

Measurements of distinct types..

Relations between time of immigration and change of type...

Rate of physiological development of foreign-born and American-born...

Abstract of the report on Federal immigration legislation..

The native-American movement..

The "Know Nothing" movement.

"Know Nothings" in Congress..

Legislation favorable to foreigners.

The end of State legislation.

Law to encourage immigration

Opposition to contract labor...

State control declared unconstitutional.

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