BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON IMMIGRATION A short selected, but not by any means exhaustive, list of some of the more important books on immigration. Many of the following books contain exhaustive bibliographies, covering both books, periodicals and Government publications. Fairchild's book on Immigration has a particularly good bibliography. Section I-General Addams, Jane-Twenty Years at Hull House. Macmillan Company, 1910.-A personal biography of a settlement in an immigrant section of Chicago, which portrays in Jane Addams' wonderful manner, the life of the immigrants and their contact with Hull House and City Institutions during a period of twenty years. Clark, Francis E.-Old Homes of New Americans. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.-Gives an interesting account of the conditions and the countries from which the supply of our immigration comes. Commons, M. R.-Races and Immigrants in America. Macmillan Company, 1908. A small, compact book dealing historically with the racial elements making up the American population, together with suggestive chapters on industry, labor, city life, crime and poverty, politics, amalgamation, assimilation. Fairchild Henry Pratt-Immigration. Macmillan Company, 1914.-A scholarly, scientific, thoroughgoing treatment of the immigration problem. Book is well arranged, deals with principles, and gives one an excellent grasp of the laws underlying population movements. One of the best general books on immigration. Hall, Prescott F.-Immigration. Henry Holt and Company, 1906. A study of present-day immigration which pays special attention to the effects of immigration upon America's social, economic and political life, and which leans strongly toward restriction as the solution of the immigration problem. Hourwich, Isaac A.-Immigration and Labor. G. P. Putnam Sons, 1912. Deals with immigration as an economic question. The book is taken up quite largely with statistical arguments and is decidedly against any restrictive measures. Keller, Frances A.-Straight America. Macmillan Company, 1916. A powerful plea for a national policy of Americanization including such problems as distribution, education, and assimilation, in order to develop a national unity. Americanization is the keynote. Roberts, Peter-The New Immigration. Macmillan Company, 1912. A distinctive study of the industrial and social life of southeastern Europeans in America. Ross, Edward A.-The Old World in the New. Century Company, 1914. Deals with the racial elements making up the population of the United States, especially contrasting the older immigration from northern and western Europe with the later day immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Sounds a strong note of warning in regard to the evil social, economic and political effects arising from the character of later-day immigration. Steiner, Edward A.-Immigrant Tide. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909. On the Trail of the Immigrant. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1906. Written from a wealth of personal experience, these books vividly portray the feelings, the aspirations, and the life of the immigrant. Show the influence of the returned immigrant upon his peasant home and his social and national life. Interprets the relation of various races to our institutions, their attitude toward them and the influence of these institutions upon the immigrant. Warne, Frank J.-The Tide of Immigration. D. Appleton and Company, 1916. A well-balanced, up-to-date and interesting discussion of immigration. The author believes that our immigration policy should rest on economic assimilation and is of the opinion that immigration should be restricted. Section II-The Problem of Asiatic Immigration Gulick, Sidney L.-The American Japanese Problem. Scribner's, 1914. A sympathetic study of the JapaneseAmerican problem by a man who is intensely desirous of developing a system of regulation and understanding which will be acceptable to both Japan and America. A very important book on the subject of Asiatic Immigration. Outlines a new American Oriental policy. Kawakami, K. K.-Asia at the Door. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914. Problem of the Asiatic presented by a foremost Japanese from the Japanese viewpoint. Millis, H. A.-The Japanese Problem in the United States. Macmillan Company, 1915. A thoroughgoing, scientific and valuable study of the Japanese immigration problem. Deals with the admission of the Japanese, the treatment of those already here, and goes carefully into the question of alien land legation such as that passed by California. Section III-Special Studies Antin, Mary-The Promised Land. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.-A personal recital told in an interesting, graphic, and human way of the struggles of a Jewish family in Russia, the coming to America, and the later struggle here for higher standards. Vividly portrays the feelings, aspirations, and point of view of the immigrant toward American institutions. Balch, Emily G.-Our Slavic Fellow Citizens. Charities Publication Committee, 1910. A study made from the point of view of the social character and consequences of the Slavic immigration, and is based on personal, firsthand material. Treats of the Slav immigration at its source, and the effects of this immigration upon the Slav in his own country and upon the Slav in America. Byington, Margaret F.-Homestead, the Households of a Mill Town. Pittsburgh Survey, Russel Sage Foundation, Charities Publication Committee, 1910. Deals with the work and life of the inhabitants of Homestead, a mill town near Pittsburgh. Contrasts the life of the English-speaking population and the Slavs. The book is a carefully prepared cross section of immigrant life |