TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
1. Classify the residents of your community according as they are (a) Foreign born (b) Native-born children of foreign-born parents, or (c) Natives.
2. Study your community with the aim of determining whether or not the character of its immigrant class has changed within the last twenty- five years.
3. Classify the immigrant groups of your community on the basis of occupation. Notice in particular the proportion of immigrants engaged in agriculture and in the trained professions.
4. Make a visit to a near-by foreign colony, and report to the class upon your observations.
5. Interview the officials of a trade union on the effect of Unrestricted immigration upon wages.
6. Draw up a workable plan for the redistribution of immigrants in your state.
7. Draw up a plan for an Americanization survey in your state. (Write to the Bureau of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, for Bulletin, 1919, No. 77, on State Americanization.)
8. Race elements in the population of the American colonies. (Commons, Races and Immigrants in America, chapter ii.)
9. History of immigration to the United States. (Any standard text on immigration.)
10. The journey to America. (Abbot, The Immigrant and the Community, chapter i; Steiner, On the trail of the Immigrant; Antin, They Who Knock at Our Gates. See also Miss Antin's The Promised Land.)
11. Assisted immigration. (R. Mayo Smith, Emigration and Immigration, chapter ix.)
12. Geographical distribution of immigration. (Semple, American History and its Geographic Conditions, chapter xv.)
13. Economic aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)
14. "Birds of passage." (Consult any standard text on immigration.)
15. Immigration and the trade unions. (Carlton, History and Problems of Organized Labor, chapter xi. See also any standard text on immigration.)
16. Social aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)
17. Political aspects of immigration. (Consult any standard text on immigration.)
18. Chinese immigration. (Coolidge, Chinese Immigration; Hall, Immigration, chapter xv; Jenks and Lauck, The Immigration Problem, pages 231-237; Annals, vol. xciii, pages 7-13; Gulick, American Democracy and Asiatic Citizenship.)
19. Japanese immigration. (Annals, vol. xciii, part i; Jenks and
Lauck, The Immigration Problem, pages 241-252; Steiner, The
Japanese Invasion; Gulick, American Democracy and Asiatic
Citizenship.)
20. Americanization. (Annals, vol. xciii, part in; Woods, Americans in Process; Steiner, From Alien to Citizen; Bogardus, Essentials of Americanization; Roberts, The Problem of Americanization)
FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
21. Is assisted immigration an evil?
22. Can immigrants be redistributed effectively by governmental agencies?
23. Should we retain the literacy test as part of our immigration policy?
24. At the present time many aliens journey across the Atlantic only to find that, for various reasons, they cannot be admitted to this country. How might the resulting disappointment and loss of time and money be avoided?