With the best available data, with checks from the reports of both the Division of Migration and the Stateman's Year Book, the following tables for the principal emigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving nations are compiled: A. Principal emigrant-exporting countries for which data are available for 1922 or 1 Overseas only. Data from Migration Movements of the International Labor Office. Data on immigration not recorded. Statesman's Year Book, 1924. 4 Overseas and continental. Data from Migration Movements of the International Labor Office. B. Principal immigrant-receiving countries for which data are available for 1920, 1921, 1922, or 1923 Of course the tables which are desired would call for data for each of the world's primary governmental establishments, whether sovereign nations, dominions, or colonies, in reference to all of their emigration by calendar years, classified as to country of destination; similarly, all data on immigration, classified as to country of source; the usual subclassifications of age, sex, occupation, religion, race, family, social and economic values are desired, but such complete data are not possible until the different nations and colonies pay more attention to their own bookkeeping in human migration. International understanding and the promotion of peace and good will among nations depend, among other things, upon the publication of facts in reference to human migrations. It can not be doubted but that the Division of Migration of the International Labor Office will take an active interest in compiling and analyzing reports as fast as individual nations and colonies will issue them. In this connection reference should be made to the publication of the International Labor Office, entitled "Emigration and Immigration Legislation and This book analyzes the existing laws Treaties" published in Geneva in 1922. Part III. International agreements concerning emigration and immigration. These statistical and legal source materials are of great value, and the division of migration of the International Labor Office, in preparing and maintaining this compilation, performs a service of great value to both emigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving nations, and also to the cause of world peace. (c) PROPOSED CONFERENCE OF IMMIGRANT-RECEIVING NATIONS 1. Purpose. To define more clearly than has yet been done the causes and consequences of human migration, and to agree upon the common rights, duties, interests, and policies of the immigrant-receiving nation, while recognizing the full rights of the emigrant-sending nations to control their own emigration. 2. Call. The call for a conference of this sort could be issued properly by any of the principal immigrant-receiving nations. 3. Participants.-Nations logically eligible to participate in such a conference are all of the principal immigrant-receiving countries. (See pp. 1432 and 1434.) 4. Time.-On account of the unsettled state of the several national policies in reference to human migration, a conference of the several immigrant-receiving nations, as preliminary to a general migration conference of all nations, both emigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving, properly could be held to advantage within the year 1925. 5. Place. Any of the capitals or central cities of any of the principal participating nations. 6. Agenda. In any conference of immigrant-receiving nations the agenda would fall naturally under two general heads: First, the scientific study of human migration, which would cover an historical, economic, social, geographical, and racial analysis of human migrations of the past, and would seek to elucidate, more clearly than has been done heretofore, the causes and conditions which control human migration, and its consequences in reference to population numbers and race, and to economic, social, and political affairs. Such a study should provide the sound basis for the establishment of wise policies by the immigrant-receiving nations. Logically, the second part of a conference of this sort would be devoted to a discussion and agreement on the common rights, duties, interests, and policies of the immigrant-receiving nations. (D) PROPOSED AGENDA The following themes are offered, tentatively, as proper subjects for consideration by a conference of immigrant-receiving countries: 1. Collection and analysis of scientific data on the causes and consequences of human migration. (Appendix J, p. 1425.) 2. Classification and definition of different types of persons who travel or migrate from one nation to another. 3. Rights and duties of emigrant-exporting nations, in particular relation to the immigrant-receiving nations. (a) Expatriation, naturalization, dual citizenship. (b) Control by the emigrant-sending nation of her nationals in foreign countries. (c) Exiling and encouraging emigration of undesirables. 4. Rights and duties of immigrant-receiving nations, under international law, as historically developed and presently practiced. 5. Common interests of all nations in human migration. 6. Prospect of future populations of the several nations in the world, by racial type and geographical distribution, with particular reference to migration forces. 7. National welfare of immigrant-receiving nations. (a) Near future settlement, and industrial and commercial development. Industrial consequences. (b) Recruiting of population by assimilable races and selected family strains of acceptable inborn physical, mental, and moral qualities. Racial and family stock consequences. 8. Common policies of immigrant-receiving nations. 429-24†-SER 5A———— !i INDEX Aliens debarred. Alien seamen - . American race- American consuls and the immigration service. Analysis of the immigration act of 1924, by John B. Trevor- Asylum ideal - - - - Biological basis of migration.. British dominions - - - Cable Act, the-- Canadian immigration problems.. Carnegie Institution of Washington_ Chinese exclusion - . Clean bill of health - . Commission for immigration study. Commissioner General of Immigration, report of, 1924- Commissioner General of Naturalization, report of, 1923. Control of nationals in foreign lands.. Cost of alien insane- -. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Cost of examination of emigrants in their home territories. Criminalistic foreign born Criticisms of the "Melting Pot" study. Declaration of would-be immigrant-- Definition of an immigrant. Definition of nationality- Definitions in 1924 act-- Department of Labor. Department of State- 1398, 1408, 1413 1261, 1286, 1379, 1393, 1404 1378 Emigration causes. Emigration from the United States, 1924. 1236 1238 1430, 1432 1385 1242, 1373 1296 1374 1233 1252, 1263, 1267, 1349 1403, 1419 1286 1239 1265, 1343 1261 1297 1324, 1327 1262 1323 1319 1248 1305 Immigration standards. Immigrant, definition of an Page 1285, 1372, 1398 Immigrant-receiving nations, further research and proposed conference by Immigration act of 1924. Immigration agent to Europe.. Immigration authority in United States governmental departments. 1429, 1433 1397 1231 1248 1277 Immigration to the United States, 1924- 1383 Immigration to the United States, total, 1820–1923. 1380 Importer of immigrants, United States as an 1239 Increase and decrease by races, due to arrival and departure of aliens in United States, 1924- 1391 Insane, the 1325, 1329 International law and the immigrant-receiving nations. Pan America an immigrant-receiving group of nations.. Penalty for illegal transportation.. Policies of the United States.. Population growth and immigration__. Population of the United States, study of the, by John B. Trevor- Preferences within quotas___ Presidential quota proclamation, 1924. Presidential statement.. Proposed conference by immigrant-receiving nations. 1280 1305 1402 1314, 1321 1278, 1280 1272 1393 1394 1395 1286 1276 1398 1381 1401, 1417 1378 1260 1405 1236 1295 1361 1398 1410 1409 1300, 1303 1310, 1429, 1433 Scientific study of immigration_ 1425 Secretary of Labor, report of, 1923. 1377 Selection of immigrants abroad__ 1274, 1414 |