ID# 1153:
 "Europe as an emigrant-exporting continent," Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee, including Immigration Restriction Act
Date:
1924
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15)
Source:
 The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, C-2-6,6
&quote;Europe as an emigrant-exporting continent,&quote; Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee, including Immigration Restriction Act

Europe as an Emigrant-Exporting Continent 1411 Country or area of birth -- Continued.&Quota, 1924-25 *China...&100 Czechoslovakia...&3,073 Danzig, Free City of...&228 Denmark (5, 6)...&2,789 Egypt...&100 Esthonia...&124 Ethiopia (Abyssinia)...&100 Finland...&471 France (1, 5, 6)...&51,227 Germany...&51,227 Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1, 3, 5, 6)...&34,007 Greece...&100 Hungary...&100 Iceland...&100 *India (3)...&100 Irak (Mesopotamia)...&100 Irish Free State...&28,567 Italy, including Rhodes, Dodekanesia, and Castellorizzo (5)...&3,845 *Japan...&100 Latvia...&142 Liberia...&100 Liechtenstein...&100 Lithuania...&344 Luxemburg...&100 Monaco...&100 Morocco (French and Spanish Zones and Tangier)...&100 *Muscat (Oman)...&100 Naura (proposed British mandate) (4)...&100 *Nepal...&100 Netherlands (1,5,6)...&1,648 New Zealand (including appertaining islands) (3,4)...&100 Norway (5)...&6,453 *New Guinea and other Pacific Islands under proposed Australian mandate (4)...&100 Palestine (with Trans-Jordan) (proposed British mandate)...&100 Persia (1)...&100 Poland...&5,982 Portugal(1, 5)...&503 Ruanda and Urundi (Belgium mandate)...&100 Rumania...&603 Russia, European and Asiatic(1)...&2,248 Samoa, Western (4) (proposed mandate of New Zealand)...100 San Marino...&100 *Siam...&100 South Africa, Union of (3)...&100 South West Africa (proposed mandate of Union of South Africa)...&100 Spain (5)...&131 Sweden...&9,561 Switzerland...&2,081 Syria and the Lebanon (French mandate)...&100 Tanganyika (proposed British mandate)...&100 Togoland (proposed British mandate)...&100 Togoland (French mandate)...&100 Turkey...&100 *Yap and other Pacific Islands (under Japanese mandate) (4)...&100 Yugoslavia...&671 For each of the countries indicated by an asterisk (*) is established a nominal quota according to the minimum fixed by law. These nominal quotas, as in the case of all quotas hereby established only for persons born within the respective countries who are eligible to citizenship in the United States and admissible under the immigration laws of the United States. 1.(a)Persons born in the portions of Persia, Russia, or the Arabian Peninsula within the barred zone, and who are admissible under the immigration laws of the United States as quota immigrants, will be charged to the quotas of these countries; and (b) persons born in the colonies, dependencies, or protectorates, or portions thereof, within the barred zone, of France, Great Britain, the Nether-

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