COMMENTARIES

Commentaries by Drew Keeling on historical dimensions of current migration issues

  “August, 1914 and the end of unrestricted mass migration”

   Migration policy-making in comparison (pdf below)

   Migration policy debates in comparison  (in German)
   Internal Republican compromise, then and now

   Echoes of Ellis Island era political bargaining
   Other echoes: from Angel Island

   An immigration Policy That Worked

  “Self-limited migration: insights from the pre-1914 Atlantic”

  “Why legal barriers are not critical to deterring immigrants” 

  See also business history blog.

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