Americanization in the states
Subtitle: immigrant social welfare policy, citizenship, and national identity in the United States, 1908-1929
By: Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy Minchin, series editors.
Series: Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780813033617
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- States -- Social conditions; Citizenship -- United States; National characteristics, American; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The start of a movement : the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, 1908-1914; title: The California plan : the Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1913-1917; title: An unhealthy relationship : eugenics and americanization in New York, 1914-1917; title: Americanizing the home : housing reform and the California Home Teacher Act of 1915; title: Wartime americanization in the States : New York, California, and Massachusetts, 1917-1918; title: Cosmopolitanism cut short : the Illinois Immigrants Commission, 1919-1921; title: Schooling the immigrant : americanization and adult education, 1919-1929; title: Americanization versus restriction : immigrant social welfare policy in New York, California, and Massachusetts, 1919-1929.