u.s. Immigration in the 1970's: Settlement Patterns and Processes

This study has three main goals: (1) to evaluate whether major United States immigration legislation has been used as a means of alleviating domestic labor shortages; (2) to assess the effect of emigration on the economic development of origin countries; (3) to document and explain the immigrant settlement pattern within the United States during the 1970's. In response to public concern over an upsurge in both legal and illegal immigration the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy was formed in 1978 to study the existing immigration laws. The Commission directed most of its attention to the issue of illegal immigration--a deficiency which this study avoids by concentrating on legal immigration to the United States.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Broadway, Michael John

• Geography

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8309914

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70640