The Immigration Law of 1924

Henry Pratt Fairchild

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1924, vol. 38, issue 4, 653-665

Abstract: Four periods in the history of immigration policy, marked by the years 1830, 1882, 1917, 654. — The act of 1917 and the literacy test, 656. — The act of 1924 and the forces back of it, 659. — Its provisions, 660. — The Japanese question, 664.

Date: 1924
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