Citation

Grant EE. Am. J. Sociol. 1925; 30(6): 641-651.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1925, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/213764

PMID

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Abstract

Out of more than a decade's use of California as a sociological laboratory, experimenting with the possibilities of an act padlocking brothels as the best means of eliminating them, has come the profound conviction that Continental standards regarding womankind generally differ considerably from those America has inherited from Britain. Violators of such laws are largely Mediterraneans. A strengthening of deportation laws regarding white slavery, narcotics, and alcoholics is not open to the same objection as suspending the sentence of the hobo and passing him on to the next community. A systematic deportation not only eugenically cleanses America of a vicious element but the moral effect upon their native countries makes deportation of offenders, in an international sense, doubly worth while. A new system in handling the immigration problem is recommended, that is, a rigid test in American standards by a United States Commission before the prospective immigrant leaves his native land.