Refugees comingato the United States to escape political and religious persection in recent years “have had a beneficial effect upon this country out of proportion to their numbers,” it is reported on the basis of a two-year scientific investigation, “nationwide in scope and based on firsthand and verifiable information,” whose results were published today in “Refugees In America,” by Maurice R. Davie.
The volume is the full report of the Committee for the Study of Recent Immigration from Europe, which carried on the first scientific investigation in the field of immigration to the United States since before World War I. Prof. Davie, the author, who was director of the study, is chairman of the department of sociology of Yale University and an outstanding authority on migration.
The Committee for the Study of Recent Immigration from Europe, of which Dr. Alvin Johnson, president emeritus of the New School for Social Research, is chairman, was organized by five leading national refugee service organizations; the American Christian Committee for Refugees, the American Friends Service Committee, the Catholic Committee for Refugees, United Service for New Americans and the United States Committee for the Care of European Children.
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