Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Decker, Robert Julio

Titel

Citizenship and Its Duties: The Immigration Restriction League as a Progressive Movement

Ist Teil von

• Immigrants & minorities, 2014-05, Vol.32 (2), p.162-182

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article argues that historians' understanding of the establishment of the quota system in the 1920s can be improved if 'nativist' organisations such as the Immigration Restriction League are not interpreted as a natural psychological reaction to an increase in immigration, but in the context of a new mode of power. The article compares the League's mode of operation and their attempts to convince other citizens of the necessity of restriction with the settlement movement. This comparison, it is argued, reveals that despite their radically different underlying rationales, both sides aimed at transforming individuals into better citizens.