Americans by choice

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xxiv, 448 pages 20 cm Of their own free will -- New members and an old game -- Citizenship: under this flag and others -- Development of the naturalization law -- The law in operation -- Personal equation in naturalization -- Some statistics concerning immigrants, "new" and "old" -- Later statistics, in which some twenty-six thousand petitioners speak for themselves -- Citizenship via military service -- The foreign-born woman, her home and her children, in American politics -- The foreign-born voter in action -- The foreign born in radical movements -- Some general considerations