Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy by Benton-Cohen, Katherine
Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy by Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy

In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a...
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Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy by Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy

$77.55
Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy by Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy

$77.55
Author: Katherine Benton-Cohen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts--women and men trained in the new field of social science--fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they amassed shaped how Americans thought about immigrants, themselves, and the nation's place in the world. Katherine Benton-Cohen argues that the Dillingham Commission's legacy continues to inform the ways that U.S. policy addresses questions raised by immigration, over a century later.

Within a decade of its launch, almost all of the commission's recommendations--including a literacy test, a quota system based on national origin, the continuation of Asian exclusion, and greater federal oversight of immigration policy--were implemented into law. Inventing the Immigration Problem describes the labyrinthine bureaucracy, broad administrative authority, and quantitative record-keeping that followed in the wake of these regulations. Their implementation marks a final turn away from an immigration policy motivated by executive-branch concerns over foreign policy and toward one dictated by domestic labor politics.

The Dillingham Commission--which remains the largest immigration study ever conducted in the United States--reflects its particular moment in time when mass immigration, the birth of modern social science, and an aggressive foreign policy fostered a newly robust and optimistic notion of federal power. Its quintessentially Progressive formulation of America's immigration problem, and its recommendations, endure today in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement.

Author: Katherine Benton-Cohen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05/07/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780674976443


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 86
Choice 12/01/2018

About the Author
Benton-Cohen, Katherine: - Katherine Benton-Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.
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