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Knock at Our Gates. See also Miss Antin's The Promised Land_.)

11. Assisted immigration. (R. Mayo Smith, Emigration and Immigration, chapter ix.)

12. Geographical distribution of immigration. (Semple, American History and its Geographic Conditions, chapter xv.)

13. Economic aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)

14. "Birds of passage." (Consult any standard text on immigration.)

15. Immigration and the trade unions. (Carlton, History and Problems of Organized Labor, chapter xi. See also any standard text on immigration.)

16. Social aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)

17. Political aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)

18. Chinese immigration. (Coolidge, Chinese Immigration; Hall, Immigration, chapter xv; Jenks and Lauck, The Immigration Problem, pages 231-237; Annals, vol. xciii, pages 7-13; Gulick, American Democracy and Asiatic Citizenship.)

19. Japanese immigration. (Annals, vol. xciii, part i; Jenks and Lauck, The Immigration Problem, pages 241-252; Steiner, The Japanese Invasion; Gulick, American Democracy and Asiatic Citizenship.)

20. Americanization. (Annals, vol. xciii, part in; Woods, Americans in Process; Steiner, From Alien to Citizen; Bogardus, Essentials of Americanization; Roberts, The Problem of Americanization)

FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

21. Is assisted immigration an evil?

22. Can immigrants be redistributed effectively by governmental agencies?

23. Should we retain the literacy test as part of our immigration policy?

24. At the present time many aliens journey across the Atlantic only to find that, for various reasons, they cannot be admitted to this country. How might the resulting disappointment and loss of time and money be avoided?

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