Language:
English
Year of publication:
1984
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of American Ethnic History
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,2 (1984) 5-38
Keywords:
United States. History 1933-1945
;
United States. History
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1945
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Germany Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
;
United States Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
Government policy
;
History
Abstract:
Herbert Hoover's administration reduced European immigration far below the level allowed by the Immigration Act of 1924. Throughout the 1930s, State Department officials controlled the distribution of visas to the U.S.A. President Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, sought special consideration for refugees and an increase in immigration from Germany. This engendered a struggle between the State Department and the Labor Department, from which State emerged in 1940 with almost complete jurisdiction over visa policy. Discusses, also, the issue of antisemitism in the State Department and in the Foreign Service (especially amongst American consuls in Europe).
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