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Testing Entry: How intelligence and medical screening shaped early U.S. immigration policy offers a close look at how we tried to gatekeepers to the nation.
This nonfiction work surveys how intelligence tests, medical exams, and legal rules were used to decide who could enter and stay in the United States. It connects statistics from Ellis Island with debates about public health, national safety, and the economy, revealing how policy shifted from broad welcome to selective screening.
The text traces how officials measured fitness for citizenship, the rise of literacy tests, and the role of psychiatrists in screening newcomers. It presents historical numbers on immigrants, the admitted and the barred, and the costs of care and enforcement. It also shows how concerns about mental illness, disability, and dependence influenced rules and practice.- Learn the historical rationale behind immigration screening and the rise of rapid assessment methods
- See how statistics shaped policy decisions and the balance between safety and openness
- Understand the debate around mental health, eugenics, and public resources in early 20th‑century immigration
- Explore the lived process at places like Ellis Island and the daily work of inspectors and clinicians
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It is of vital importance to admit only those of sufficient intelligence, who, at their vocational level, can become good citizens and carry on successfully in their new environment and thus become an economic asset and not a liability or expense to the community at large.
The maudling sentiment that America should receive with open arms the poor and oppressed of all the other nations of the earth, regardless of their mental or phys ical qualifications should give way to the more sane and human view that only normal units, both physically and mentally, can make for a normal healthy efficient body politics or virile nation, and only such should be allowed to become prospective candidates for citizenship of our great Commonwealth.
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Millions of them and their descendants make up a large percent of the population of the United States today. During the year 1920, 430,001 entered the United States for permanent residence.
In addition to the above, 191,595 non-immigrant aliens entered the United States for temporary stay - on business, travel, etc. Furthermore, 933,081 alien seamen came into various ports during the same period - making a grand total of 1,566,452 aliens of the above classes entering into the United States for permanent or temporally residence. The largest incidence of permanent immigration to our shores occurred during the year 1907 when 1,285,349 aliens entered the. United States for permanent residence in addition to those of the non-immigrant and sailor alien classes, 11, 795 of those seeking admission to our country during 1920 were debarred for various reasons - 5,297 on the ground that they were likely to become a public charge, 1,639 under the illiteracy test, 1,241 stowaways, 1,164 contract laborers, 541 due to loathsome or contagious diseases, 355 criminals, 353 physical defectives, who, owing to such disability were unable to make a living; 216 insane and other mental defects, 185 prostitutes or guilty of other immoral practices, 291 children under 16 years of age unaccompanied by parents, 60 Chinese, 56 Japanese and 27 natives of other barred Asiatic zones. Of the 216 mental cases, 9 were idiots, 20 imbeciles, 49 feeble minded, 83 insane and epileptic and 38 constitutional psychopathic inferior. There were 61 cases of tuberculosis, 8 chronic alcoholics and i alien enemy refused admission.
Two thousand seven hundred and sixty-two aliens were deported after admission, including some 1, 500 from insane institutions in all parts of the United States, leaving some 1,500 additional insane in these institutions to be deported at a later date. Russians, however, cannot be deported at present. In addition to the 1,500 insane patients, there were also deported after entry 148 sexually immoral, 292 anarchists, 155 criminals. In these three latter classes, deportation can be effected without regard to length of residence, whereas in the case of aliens who fall into distress here or need public aid from causes arising subsequent to their arrival, they may be deported at Government expense only up to 3 years after landing.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book argues that the United States should employ intelligence tests as an additional measure to ensure the admission of only desirable immigrants. The author, a doctor, maintains that doing so would improve the quality of US citizenship and save the country billions in economic losses due to mental health issues, incarceration, and welfare. Tests should determine emotional stability and moral character in addition to intelligence. The author believes this is possible and would pay for itself many times over. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781330203224_0
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